Tag: Education policy

India’s national education policy attempts to address poor learning outcomes

by Yifei Yan | May 7, 2024 | Learning, Policymaking

Unlike some of its neighbours, India has long neglected its primary and secondary education sector. While progress has been made towards achieving universal education since the 1990s as the neglect got substantially remedied, learning outcomes still remain poor and quite uneven between government and private schools as well as across… Read More

Listening to African Researchers: Making sure evidence informs education policy and practice

by Samuel Asare, Pauline Essah, Izel Kipruto, Pauline Rose and Sandra Baxter | Oct 27, 2021 | Policymaking

This blog was written by Samuel Asare, Pauline Essah and Izel Kipruto from Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA); and Pauline Rose and Sandra Baxter from the Research for Equitable...

Good teaching is inclusive for all, so why focus on marginalised adolescent girls?

by Anita Reilly | Dec 21, 2020 | Girls' Education

This blog was written by Anita Reilly, Girls’ Education Challenge. It was published on the Girls’ Education Challenge website on 15 December 2020. The Foreign, Commonwealth...

Examining Disability Inclusion in India’s New National Education Policy

by Tanushree Sarkar | Aug 19, 2020 | Education and Disabilities, Policymaking

This blog was written by Tanushree Sarkar, a disabled woman and doctoral student in the Community Research and Action program at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. She has a...

Prevent a lost learning generation: nine recommendations to policymakers in response to Covid-19

by Richard King | Apr 9, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Richard King, Strategic Growth Director at Education Development Trust and originally published on the Education Development Trust website on 31st March...

Adding Value to the Policy-making Process

by Colin Bangay and Angela Little | Oct 17, 2019 | 2019 UKFIET Conference

This blog was written by Colin Bangay, Senior Education Adviser, DFID-Sierra Leone, and Angela Little, Professor Emirata, University College London, IoE. It was originally...

Not just ramps and girls’ toilets: Seeing beyond the “inclusionwash” of inclusive education

by UKFIET | Feb 19, 2019 | 2019 UKFIET Conference

Dr Ruth Naylor, Senior International Consultant with Education Development Trust and Conference Vice-Chair for 2019 UKFIET Conference, reflects on this year’s conference theme....

Reflections on DFID’s new Education Policy

by Don Taylor | Feb 6, 2018 | Aid

By Don Taylor, UKFIET Executive Committee DFID has just released a new Education Policy paper, entitled Get Children Learning. It sets out DFID’s current priorities in education...