This blog was written by Tisha Verma, Policy Co-chair of Send My Friend to School, and Education Policy and Advocacy Adviser for Save the Children UK. This blog was originally posted on the Send My Friend to School website on 27 February 2019. On Tuesday 26 Feb, UK MPs participated in a Westminster Hall Debate […]
Interview with theme convenor of one of six 2019 UKFIET conference themes, ‘System responses to conflict and crises’: Dr Tejendra Pherali, Associate Professor in Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University College London. What excites you about the theme of ‘system responses to conflict and crises’? Violent conflicts, natural disasters and refugee […]
This blog was written by Laura Savage, Deputy Team Lead from the DFID Education Research Team, and originally posted on the Impact Initiative website on 29 January 2019 Laura Savage, Deputy Team Lead DFID Education Research Team, highlights the context for a new booklet providing an overview of the 30 projects focused in 24 countries […]
This blog was written by Elizabeth Tofaris, University of Cambridge, on behalf of the the Impact Initiative for international development research. The Impact Initiative seeks to connect policymakers and practitioners with the world-class social science research supported by the ESRC-DFID Strategic Partnership, maximising the uptake and impact of research from: (i) the Joint Fund for […]
Can education systems anticipate the challenges of artificial intelligence? There is increasing concern that artificial intelligence could automate many jobs and displace scores of workers in the next decade or two. The usual response to this possibility is to argue that automation has never caused long-term unemployment in the past and that displaced workers just […]
