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Mokoro reflections from the UKFIET Conference 2025

by Lavinia Blundo | Jan 19, 2026 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

Three themes emerged: the need for joined responses across actors, the value of multi-layered and locally grounded approaches, and the importance of building and using stronger evidence to inform action. Read More

Are our partnerships really opening doors for refugee students, or just moving the borders?

by Mir Abdullah Miri, Corinne Squire and Holly Rooke | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Education and Migration, Higher Education and Skills

‘Nothing about us without us’, a principle invoked in many struggles for social justice, only works if we mean it. When we talked with people from refugee backgrounds and those working with them for our research (‘It’s not just opening the doors’: Challenges and possibilities for refugees’ access to higher… Read More

Reflections on UKFIET 2025 Conference

by UKFIET | Dec 11, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

From 16-18 September 2025, over 750 participants from 66 countries gathered in Oxford for our biennial conference, under the theme: ‘Mobilising knowledge, partnerships, and innovations for sustainable development through education and training’. Read More

Why collaboration matters: Personal reflections from British Asian Trust’s journey in convening outcome-based partnerships

by Shraddha Iyer | Dec 11, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Aid and Finance

This blog was written by Shraddha Iyer, British Asian Trust. For the 2025 UKFIET conference, a record 37 individuals from 15 countries, including Shraddha, were provided with...

Relational ecologies of knowledge and practice

by Moira V Faul, Keith Holmes, Catherine Odora Hoppers, Prachi Srivastava and Leon Tikly | Dec 9, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Decolonisation, Learning

Struggles for cognitive justice continue to shape everyday practice in education and research. A workshop envisioned new, reparative ways of knowing and being together that prioritize community knowledges and contextual epistemologies, equitable resource distribution, and ethical funding and publication pipelines. Read More

Removing the Extra from Extracurricular: Reimagining Activities as Core Catalysts for Classroom Connection

by Yajur Dolwani | Dec 8, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Learning

Extracurricular activities (ECAs) have long been seen as add-ons to schooling. But what if these activities are actually the key to forging deeper peer connections, boosting student participation, and creating classrooms where every voice is heard and valued? Read More

Why children’s literature belongs in conversations on education and inclusion

by Deepali Agarwal | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Literacy and Numeracy

Access to rich and engaging literature at home is a severe gap for Global South populations, with studies suggesting that access to children’s literature in India is limited to 1 book available for 5 children in urban areas, and 1 book available for every 11 children in rural areas. In… Read More

Grappling with familiar and emerging questions: My reflections from the UKFIET 2025 Conference

by Srinidhi Lakshmanan | Nov 26, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

The UKFIET 2025 conference was my first international conference, and the opportunity to gather with a global education community that deeply cares about the state of the world and education today was extremely humbling and rewarding. Read More

Scaling with digital technology and AI: What else should we be thinking about?

by UKFIET and Dina D. Fajardo-Tovar | Nov 19, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Learning

The education and international development sector has found in technology and AI an excellent way to scale impact. Digital technology and AI have been used as powerful tools to reach more communities, children, teachers and families, especially in areas where access to quality education remains limited. Read More

The balancing act between agency and complicity: Reflections from the UKFIET 2025 conference

by Geneviève Greer | Nov 17, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Conflict, Crisis and Emergency

The hall fell silent. It was one of the most visceral, uncomfortable moments I have witnessed at a conference – exposing tensions at the heart of the week’s theme. In a world woven together by the digital and the geopolitical, how do we mobilise partnerships without reproducing injustice? Read More

Power, partnerships and progress: Scaling teacher development partnerships in South Asia

by M Affan Javed | Nov 12, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Teachers

In South Asia, education systems are vast, layered and deeply hierarchical. Across a range of academic disciplines, the structures for Teacher Professional Development (TPD) can be framed as micro (individual), meso (institutional) and macro (national). Read More

Reflections on my experience of the 2025 UKFIET Conference: On hierarchy, hard questions and praxis

by Mercy Martins | Nov 11, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference

The 2025 UKFIET three-day conference was unlike any I had attended in my three years of doctoral research. The event blurred the divide between research and praxis: every hallway, every room, and every conversation included both researchers and policymakers, discussing what research says and what is happening in practice. Read More