A tribute to Professor Alan Rogers from the UEA UNESCO Chair
It is with great sadness that we heard the news of Alan Rogers’ death on 5 April 2022.
How schools in Nepal are including children with 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?
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
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
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.
Teacher absenteeism and children’s learning – the elephant in the classroom
Prior to COVID-19, 6 out of 10 children globally and 9 out of 10 children in Sub-Saharan Africa, were not learning. With the significant learning losses during the pandemic, even more children are at risk of learning poverty and lifelong poverty. COVID-19 school closures highlighted further the issues around learning…
It’s Time to Update the Narrative on Educational Technology Research
If you’ve spent any time in the technology in education world, particularly in developing country donor-funded work, you probably know the general lament about the many deficiencies of educational technology research: its paucity, its poverty and lack of purity.
Additive not subtractive transitions: perspectives, policies and practices for multilingual education
A recent World Bank report estimates that 370 million learners in low- and middle-income countries complete all or part of their basic education using an international/European/former colonial language as the official language of learning and teaching.