By Dr Amy Jo Dowd, Lauren Pisani, Caroline Dusabe and Holly Jane Howell from Save the Children. This blog was originally posted on the UNICEF website on 14 June 2018. Parents and caregivers dominate opportunities to contribute to learning Children spend more time outside school than they do inside it. It is here that parents […]
Written by Vandana Singh, PhD Researcher, Department of Education, University of Bath I first heard about the Voices of the Next Generation conference on 14th June 2018 through an email from UKFIET. My PhD supervisor, Dr Rita Chawla-Duggan, encouraged me to send an abstract to be one of the speakers at the conference and I […]
This blog was written by Dr Caine Rolleston, Senior Lecturer in education and international development at the University College London Institute of Education (UCL-IOE), and member of the UKFIET Executive Committee. The need for education systems to better orient themselves towards a fast-changing labour market and social world has, it would appear, never been more […]
This blog was written by Dr. Garima Bansal, Assistant Professor, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi “Students cannot learn in school everything they will need to know in adult life. What they must acquire is the prerequisite for successful learning in future life” (OECD, 1999). In the present day world where opportunities to learn, both […]
This blog was written by Chris Joynes, Senior International Advisor, Education Development Trust for World Book Day The role of textbooks and study materials, regardless of subject, is to present learners with key content and to help them to acquire necessary skills. However, a key challenge is how to make the textbook itself engaging enough […]
