Category: 2013 UKFIET Conference

Planning, finance, technology and data – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

by Sally Rosscornes and Ellen Smith | Feb 15, 2023 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Finance

Interview with theme convenors of one of six 2023 UKFIET conference themes, ‘Planning, finance, technology and data’: Sally Rosscornes, UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, and Ellen Smith, Aga Khan Foundation. Read More

Conference Sub-theme – New Imperatives for Education, Teaching and Learning

by Freda Wolfenden | Sep 9, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Learning, Post 2015

In the nine sessions of the New Imperatives sub-theme we will be critically examining a number of issues vital to achieving post 2015 learning goals, in classrooms and other...

Conference Sub-theme – Values & Conceptualizations in Education and Development Research

by Mark Mason | Aug 22, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Post 2015

This sub-theme seeks to identify the research paradigms – and the values underlying them – that have prevailed in the field of education and development research over the last 15...

Conference Sub-theme – Evidence and Knowledge

by Susy Ndaruhutse | Aug 19, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Post 2015

There were so many papers for the sub-theme on Evidence and Knowledge, that we have created two streams to accommodate them all. The stream on “Including all learners” will...

Conference Sub-theme – The Futures of Development Assistance

by Kenneth King | Aug 14, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Aid, Post 2015, Skills

The Futures of Development Assistance is one of the Sub-themes at the UKFIET Conference in Oxford, organised by Kenneth King, Simon McGrath and Robert Palmer. Its 8 sessions run...

Conference Sub-theme – Reflecting on global agendas, international targets and goals: Lessons learned

by Terra Sprague | Aug 12, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference

Only a month left until the UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development. Starting this week on the CoP, we will be previewing some of the conference Sub-themes...

ODI Symposium – What works: Country case studies of education progress

by Susan Nicolai | Aug 7, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference

Significant progress has occurred globally in the past decades across the education sector. ODI, as part of the Development Progress project, is conducting a series of case...

AusAID Symposium: Skills Development for Productive Lives in the Pacific

by Kaye Schofield | Jul 29, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Skills

Joining the dots: building the skills Fourteen small island countries of the South Pacific are striving to deliver education and other basic services to their citizens while...

Beyond Ideology: What works in non-state education?

by Molly Eberhardt | Jul 17, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference

As the international education community prepares new frameworks for achieving global education goals, it is critical that we first take a look around and observe emerging...

Back to the Future: The Evolution of DFID’s education programme – What have we learnt and where are we going?

by Chris Berry | Jul 1, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Aid, Post 2015

DFID is putting much more emphasis on the development and use of evidence to underpin education policies and programmes. Examples include the Independent Commission for Aid...

Learning, Life-Chances and Inequalities: Evidence from Young Lives

by Zoe James | Jun 24, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Learning

How has the expansion of formal schooling in developing countries actually contributed to children’s opportunities to learn and progress? What challenges remain to education...

New donors in education: Russia’s contribution to Post-2015 Development

by Anastasia Maximova | Jun 5, 2013 | 2013 UKFIET Conference, Aid, Post 2015

With stagnating aid flows the world needs support of new donors to development assistance in education. Expectations associated with new donors are high, but the question is...