Blog - The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET)

It’s not girls versus boys, it’s ALL children against gender inequality

by Pauline Rose, Luisa Ciampi and Antara Ganguli | May 18, 2022 | featured, Girls' Education, Learning

The new report published by UNESCO: ‘Leave no child behind: Global report on boys’ disengagement from education’ makes the case that we need to focus more attention on Abdul because he is at risk of not continuing to secondary school and the world has not paid enough attention to this…

Why we need to fund African research and education researchers

by Krista Cecille Samson | May 16, 2022 | featured, Finance

African researchers are often unable to provide data and evidence to inform global education debates and decision-making due to the immense financial challenges they face. Evidence shows that expertise from the African continent tends to be neglected and undervalued in favour of research and researchers elsewhere.

Localising power and responsibility for education through community-based structures

by Kate Sykes, Obert Chigodora and Isabel Pearson | May 10, 2022 | COVID-19, featured, Learning

NGOs have long understood that meaningful community engagement makes education projects more relevant, successful, and sustainable. But the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought sudden school closures and disrupted INGOs’ and national NGOs’ work, catapulted communities into leading roles.

Launch of the global report on boys’ disengagement from education

by UKFIET | Apr 19, 2022 | featured, GEM Report, Learning

On 7th April 2022, UNESCO organised a webinar in partnership with Promundo and The Commonwealth Secretariat to launch the new report: ‘Leave no child behind: Global report on boys’ disengagement from education’. This...

How schools in Nepal are including children with disabilities

by UKFIET | Apr 14, 2022 | Education and Disabilities

As Inclusive Futures moves from testing innovations to delivering development programmes at scale, our inclusive education programme in Nepal is helping children with disabilities return to school.

What do we know about the links between girls’ education and climate and environment change?

by Camilla Pankhurst | Apr 5, 2022 | Climate Change, Girls' Education

What do we really know about the links between girls’ education and climate change in lower income countries?

Making all schools into academies in the UK is wrong

by Kevin Courtney | Apr 4, 2022 | GEM Report, Policymaking

England’s school system has undergone a radical transformation since 2010 with thousands of schools transferred into the control of private organisations called academy trusts. These are hybrid organisations – not-for-profit private trusts subject to company law which receive state funding but operate via a contract with central government, rather than…

How looming drought is devastating education in the Somali region of Ethiopia

by Abdirizak Haybe Ali | Mar 30, 2022 | Climate Change

Looming drought is decimating the fragile lives and livelihoods of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities across the Somali region of Ethiopia, causing crop failure, livestock death, food insecurity, loss of family livelihoods and human tragedy leading to loss of life. It is also having devastating effects on education.