Category: 2023 UKIFET Conference

A small boy from Tanzania, reaching up to write on blackboard - big stretch - with orange rucksack

Rights, equity and inclusion – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

by and | Mar 13, 2023 | | 0

We are excited about learning new ways about what works in our collective effort to achieve quality education for all. We hope to learn about challenges and failures equally to successes and good practices, how to tackle intersectionality, and overcoming barriers - especially those that are often forgotten or considered… Read More
A senior rainmaker in the Nganyi community, Obedi Osore Nganyi (right), instructs Reuben Asitwa Okonda, an apprentice, on how to do the pot blowing. During the rainmaking activities, the rainmakers sometimes stay for hours or even days in the shrines and at this point it is normally the work of the assistant to keep them supplied with food and water.

Decolonisation, politics, knowledge and power – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

by and | Feb 28, 2023 | , | 0

It is the potential to ‘disrupt’ that excites us most about this conference theme – Decolonisation, politics, knowledges and power. The invitation is to engage critically with the colonial matrix of power and the way it operates through knowledge, theory and practice in education and development. Read More
A female Standard 2 teacher teaches her class using locally made wooden teaching and learning materials (in this case a wooden fish), Kivukoni Primary School, Mpanda MC, Katavi, Tanzania.

Education systems including workforce and curricula – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

by and | Feb 27, 2023 | | 0

Interview with theme convenors of one of six 2023 UKFIET conference themes, ‘Education systems including workforce and curricula’: Claire Hedges, Senior Programmes Manager, International Development Office of The Open University, and Purna Shrestha, Global Technical Lead for Resilient and Inclusive Education Practice Area at VSO International. Read More
School girl plants a small tree at a planting event

Conflict, crisis, climate and migration – interview with convenors of UKFIET conference theme

by and | Feb 13, 2023 | , | 0

Interview with theme convenors of one of six 2023 UKFIET conference themes, ‘Conflict, crisis, climate and migration’: Chris Berry, Education Adviser, UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and Rachael Fitzpatrick, Senior Researcher, Education Development Trust. Read More
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