The ‘Inclusion and Intersectionality’ theme at the 2025 UKFIET Conference brought together researchers, practitioners and policymakers from across the world to interrogate what inclusion means in practice, and for whom.
Education stakeholders from 28 policy, research and civil society organisations met in September 2025 with the aim of building a shared call for action for climate justice in and through...
Research has become an integral part of how education systems reflect, learn and plan for improvement. In India, District Institutes of Education and Training (DIETs) are envisioned as local, district-level hubs for teacher education, research and training. However, many DIETs often struggle to meet the research mandate due to limited…
Teachers are the heart of our education systems, yet their voices are often missing from the conversations shaping policies and reforms that affect their daily work. Following World Teachers’ Day, we reflect on insights from a UKFIET (the Education for Development Forum) symposium convened by Save the Children UK with…
This blog is written by: Ján Michalko, Fernanda Gándara, Rachel Marcus, Sheena Hadi, Natalia Sanchez-Corrales, Fabricia Devignes, and Sarah Lane Smith. This blog summarises a symposium...
The UKFIET 2025 conference was my first education conference after completing my PhD in Education at the University of Bristol in June 2025. I came to Oxford with the aim not only of disseminating the findings of my thesis, but also of connecting with non-academic actors interested in social justice…
This blog shares reflections from our new book ‘Reconceptualising the learning crisis in Africa: Multi-dimensional pedagogies of Accelerated Learning Programmes’. For more than a decade, the conversation on education in Africa has been framed by the language of ‘crisis’, particularly the so-called ‘learning crisis’.
“What does it really mean to ‘return to school’ after war? In Lebanon, being physically back in a classroom does not guarantee inclusion, safety or learning. The deeper barriers, such as poverty, displacement, and systemic inequality, remain untouched.”