By Ruth Naylor, Senior International Consultant with Education Development Trust, and Vice-Chair of the UKFIET 2019 Conference. In the closing panel at this year’s 2019 UKFIET conference, Colin Bangay, Senior Education Advisor for DFID in Sierra Leone, described an innovative approach to bringing young women from rural communities into teaching. I smiled… because I knew […]
This blog was written by Catherine M. Jere, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, in response to the launch of the GEM Gender Report on 5th July 2019. The latest in the series of Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Gender Reports was launched at the G7 France – UNESCO International Conference on Friday, 5th […]
This blog was written by Alfred Odour, Communication Development Officer for the Wasichana Wetu Wafaulu Project, led by Education Development Trust. Why is it that some primary school girls get pregnant, deliver, go back to school and achieve excellent learning outcomes while others drop out and never go back to school? These were the central […]
This blog was written by Dr Catherine Jere, Lecturer in Education and International Development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, and member of the UKFIET Executive Committee. It was originally posted on the Advancing Learning and Innovation in Gender Norms (ALiGN) website on 13th March 2019. A new ALIGN policy brief, […]
This week has been an exciting and important week in the world of international education. The first International Day of Education Today, 24th January, marks the first ever International Day of Education – declared by the UN to recognise the role of education for peace and sustainable development. Without inclusive and equitable quality education and […]
