Nearly one in five people in London identify as having South Asian heritage, yet there remains a striking absence of research focusing on South Asian heritage teachers, particularly in primary schools.
The education and international development sector has found in technology and AI an excellent way to scale impact. Digital technology and AI have been used as powerful tools to reach more communities, children, teachers and families, especially in areas where access to quality education remains limited.
The discourse of educational reform often focuses on student engagement, treating it as the unambiguous dependent variable that flows directly from effective instructional design and teacher professionalism. We rely on surveys, rubrics and metrics to affirm this linear relationship, seeking data that validates our models of pedagogical success.
The hall fell silent. It was one of the most visceral, uncomfortable moments I have witnessed at a conference – exposing tensions at the heart of the week’s theme. In a world woven together by the digital and the geopolitical, how do we mobilise partnerships without reproducing injustice?
Climate change is reshaping how young people learn, earn and envision their futures. With 70% of youth globally expressing a desire to work in green jobs, their ambitions are clear: they want livelihoods that contribute to climate action and sustainability.
This blog discusses the question: Why does technical and vocational education and training (TVET) remain unattractive to Pakistani youth despite a shortage of skilled labour, and what lessons can be drawn from China, Russia, India, Indonesia and Germany to inform more effective reforms?
In South Asia, education systems are vast, layered and deeply hierarchical. Across a range of academic disciplines, the structures for Teacher Professional Development (TPD) can be framed as micro (individual), meso (institutional) and macro (national).
The 2025 UKFIET three-day conference was unlike any I had attended in my three years of doctoral research. The event blurred the divide between research and praxis: every hallway, every room, and every conversation included both researchers and policymakers, discussing what research says and what is happening in practice.