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Rights, equity and inclusion – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

March 13, 2023 | Line Baagø-Rasmussen, and Samantha Ross

We are excited about learning new ways about what works in our collective effort to achieve quality education for all. We hope to learn about challenges and failures equally to successes and good practices, how to tackle intersectionality, and overcoming barriers - especially those that are often forgotten or considered…

Children play with their ‘car’ (a plastic jerry can), in the ‘street’; VOA-1 community, Montserrado County, Liberia.

Holistic learning processes and outcomes – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

March 10, 2023 | Jaya Gajparia and Anita Reilly

Interview with theme convenors of one of six 2023 UKFIET conference themes, ‘Holistic learning processes and outcomes’: Jaya Gajparia, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, London South Bank University, and Anita Reilly, education consultant.

Children sit in small group circles on the floor assisted by teachers. This group shows a female teacher sitting on the ground helping a group of four girls, India.

Central Square Foundation’s Experience of Working with the RISE Diagnostic Framework in North India

March 8, 2023 | Jasmine Dhingra, Isha Shingte and Garima Grover

The RISE Education Systems Diagnostic is a tool for identifying strategic priorities for education system reform. In the first blog in this series, we hear from Central Square Foundation, one of the organisations that piloted the Diagnostic in 2022.

Abdullahi, who has a visual impairment, receiving support from his teacher at school in Nigeria.

On data and disability: piloting the Child Functioning Module in Nigerian schools

March 6, 2023 | Liesbeth Roolvink and Gillian Mackay

Disability inclusion has long been a neglected, under-prioritised issue in international development.

Teacher points to letters in a make-shift classroom, Sierra Leone.

Measuring the dosage of brief social-emotional learning (SEL) activities in humanitarian settings

March 1, 2023 | Zezhen (Michael) Wu, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, J. Lawrence Aber, Lindsay Brown and Ha Yeon Kim

This blog was written by Zezhen (Michael) Wu, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and J. Lawrence Aber, Department of Applied Psychology, and Lindsay Brown and Ha Yeon Kim, Global TIES for Children, New York University. Key messages for researchers and practitioners: When studying brief and skill-targeted social-emotional learning activities, consider calculating measures of…

A senior rainmaker in the Nganyi community, Obedi Osore Nganyi (right), instructs Reuben Asitwa Okonda, an apprentice, on how to do the pot blowing. During the rainmaking activities, the rainmakers sometimes stay for hours or even days in the shrines and at this point it is normally the work of the assistant to keep them supplied with food and water.

Decolonisation, politics, knowledge and power – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

February 28, 2023 | Máiréad Dunne and Bukola Oyinloye

It is the potential to ‘disrupt’ that excites us most about this conference theme – Decolonisation, politics, knowledges and power. The invitation is to engage critically with the colonial matrix of power and the way it operates through knowledge, theory and practice in education and development.

A female Standard 2 teacher teaches her class using locally made wooden teaching and learning materials (in this case a wooden fish), Kivukoni Primary School, Mpanda MC, Katavi, Tanzania.

Education systems including workforce and curricula – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

February 27, 2023 | Claire Hedges and Purna Shrestha

Interview with theme convenors of one of six 2023 UKFIET conference themes, ‘Education systems including workforce and curricula’: Claire Hedges, Senior Programmes Manager, International Development Office of The Open University, and Purna Shrestha, Global Technical Lead for Resilient and Inclusive Education Practice Area at VSO International.

students try to get the teacher’s attention to answer a question, Sudan

Conversations for Change: Response to FCDO position paper ‘Addressing the climate, environment and biodiversity crises in and through girls’ education’

February 23, 2023 | Rachel Wilder, Terra Sprague, Jo Westbrook and Ben Durbin

The resounding message that emerged from the UKFIET event is that the status quo is unacceptable: education needs to change. In this blog, we welcome FCDO’s commitment to delivering this change, and offer recommendations for where more needs to be done.

Invitation to Join a Network: Collaboration to effect policy change around education for global climate justice

February 22, 2023 | UKFIET

We are gauging interest in being involved in this network. We invite you to take a short scoping survey.

Teachers taking part in a teacher group meeting in Zambia.

Instructional leadership – what it is and why it matters

February 22, 2023 | Kris Stutchbury, Clare Woodward, John Phiri, Francis Sampa, Olivier Biard and Lore Gallastegi

Joseph is the new headteacher of a rural primary school in Central Zambia. He faces many challenges. The school has recently been connected to the mains water supply but has no electricity. In his first few weeks, he was visited by Martha, the District Education Standards Officer, who highlighted the…