Category: Aid

Remedial education to support learning loss threatened by cuts to development aid

by Lindsay Brown | Jan 23, 2023 | Aid, Learning

The data is in: The COVID-19 global pandemic has been one of the most destructive events for student learning across globe, with the worst effects among the most vulnerable students – those in low-income and/or conflict-affect contexts. Globally, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries were unable to attend school in-person. Read More

Educational aid as slavery and colonialism relic

by Mike Douse | Jan 19, 2022 | Aid, Decolonisation

In a West African university in the early-1960s, unthinkingly and unashamedly I presented my students with the information and ideas that I had absorbed during my postgraduate studies in the UK. Read More

Putting the collective impact of global development research into perspective – What we learned from six years of the Impact Initiative

by Elizabeth Tofaris and Pauline Rose | Jun 8, 2021 | Aid

Reductions to UK aid have highlighted the need to understand both how international development research has, and can continue to, effect positive change. Here, Pauline Rose and...

Can the Global Education Summit start to address the huge shortfall in public financing for education?

by David Archer | May 26, 2021 | Aid

This article was written by David Archer, Head of Participation and Public Services, ActionAid International and published on the ActionAid website on 17 May 2021. On 28 and 29th...

Building back better in education and training? Contested punctuation

by Ruth Naylor | May 4, 2021 | Aid

This article was written by Dr Ruth Naylor, Senior International Consultant with Education Development Trust and Conference Chair for UKFIET 2021. Here, she reflects on the...

Open letter from UKFIET and BAICE to UK Government regarding ODA research funding cuts

by UKFIET | Mar 22, 2021 | Aid, Critique, Policymaking

The UKFIET and BAICE communities have written to the UK Government to condemn the significant reduction to UKRI’s Official Development Assistance (ODA)-funded budgets for...

NORRAG Podcast Episode 08: “Peak Aid, Catalytic Change and Sustainable Educational Financing”

by UKFIET | Mar 19, 2021 | Aid

NORRAG’s podcast episode 08 features guest host, Alexandra Draxler, interviewing Keith Lewin on the fact that external aid for educational development is reaching its peak....

UK government’s foreign aid cuts put girls’ education at risk

by Pauline Rose | Dec 1, 2020 | Aid

This article was written by Pauline Rose, Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge. It was originally published on...

Humanitarian aid funding still failing education

by Asma Zubairi and Pauline Rose | Nov 25, 2020 | Aid, Education in Emergencies

This blog was written by Asma Zubairi, PhD student, and Pauline Rose, Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge. It...

What next for the UK’s commitment to global education?

by Joseph Nhan-O'Reilly | Oct 19, 2020 | Aid

This blog was written by Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly, Executive Director of the International Parliamentary Network for Education and published on the Bond website on 15 October 2020....

Disaster Philanthropy: Exploring the Power and Influence of the Private Sector and For-Profit Philanthropy in Pandemic Times

by Lara Patil | May 28, 2020 | Aid, COVID-19

This NORRAG Debates: Philanthropy in Education is contributed by Lara Patil, Advisor at NORRAG. She argues that education practitioners and scholars must ensure that transparent,...

What next for The Global Partnership For Education after a Transformative Replenishment?

by David Archer | Feb 9, 2018 | Aid

By David Archer (UKFIET Board of Trustees and ActionAid). This blog was originally posted on the World Education Blog on 9 February 2018. Reposted with permission. The Global...