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Author: Siddesh Sarma

Drivers of effectiveness in education systems: An UKFIET panel on the role of the middle tier in implementing education change

Jan 26, 2026

There is increasing attention on the role of middle-tier officials – education system intermediaries between top decisionmakers and schools, who typically sit at the state, district, subdistrict level or similar – in implementing education policies at scale.

Past echoes, present tensions, future possibilities: My reflections from the UKFIET 2025 conference

Oct 20, 2025

We gathered to ask what education, and research therein, can or ought to be: not just in classrooms or policies, but in a world riven by war, displacement, authoritarian populism, and climate collapse. In Oxford, the ghosts of the past were all around us. But so were the children of…