United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training
An Organisational Network
United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training
 
UKFIET
Newsletters
 
 

Newsletters are published half-yearly. If you have news you would like to share with UKFIET members please contact our newsletter editor Caroline Dyer

GMR Colloquium, London, 26 January 2009
 
Management and Contacts
 
UKFIET is managed by trustees, elected officers and an executive committee of representatives from member organisations. The annual general meeting takes place in September.
 

Trustees for 2008 - 2009 are:

 

David Theobald, OBE (Chair) Senior Specialist with the British Council, with experience in consultancy and project management in India and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Dr Caroline Dyer (Deputy Chair and Newsletter Editor) Senior Lecturer in Development Practice at the University of Leeds, and former co-editor of Compare. Expertise in educational inclusion of minorities and adult literacy, with particular focus on India.
Dr Rosemary Preston, AcSS Formerly Director of the International Centre for Education in Development, University of Warwick, chair of UKFIET, co-chair of BAICE and co-editor of Compare and Gender and Education. Currently a Director of CEC and INTRAC.

Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London and a member of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Professor of International and Comparative Education, Centre of African Studies School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh. Previous Chair and Deputy Chair of UKFIET.

Professor and Director of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of Cambridge. Previous Chair and Deputy Chair of UKFIET.

Professor of International and Comparative Education at Bristol. Former Chair of BAICE. Current editor of Comparative Education and active researcher with close links to DFID, Commonwealth Secretariat, WCCES and other related bodies.

Previously worked at the Institute of Education and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Active association with the Council for Education in the Commonwealth, as Secretary of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education and on the Education Committee of UKUNESCO.

 

Officers for 2008 - 2009 are:

 

Dr Moses Oketch (Hon. Treasurer)

Lecturer in Educational Planning and International Development, School of Lifelong Education and International Development. Institute of Education at the University of London.

Felicity Binns
(Hon. Secretary)

Operations Manager at Cambridge Education and Honourary Fellow of the Commonwealth of Learning.  Education and consultancy experience, particularly in Africa.
Professor Fiona Leach (Conference Convenor) Professor of International Education at the University of Sussex, with experience of teaching, consultancy and research in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previous co-editor of Compare.
 
For more information please contact UKFIET Secretary Felicity Binns