Category: UKFIET Conferences

De-mystifying the black box of results-based financing programmes: What works?

by Divya Nambiar and Phalasha Nagpal | Mar 27, 2024 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Finance

Oxford Policy Management’s symposium titled, Results-based financing (RBF) in the education and skills development sectors: Perspectives from academia, policy, and practice, at the UKFIET 2023 conference, addressed the a number of questions. Read More

Farmer Research Networks in Malawi as a socially just model of inclusive knowledge co-creation

by Stats4SD | Feb 12, 2024 | 2023 UKIFET Conference

This article provides a video of a presentation given at the September 2023 UKFIET conference by team members from Statistics for Sustainable Development (Stats4SD). Read More

Making visible the invisible refugee children with disabilities in Uganda: The role of mothers

by Salome, J. Awidi | Jan 29, 2024 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Education and Disabilities, Education and Migration

The study focused on establishing what data exists; experiences of disabled refugee learners and; perceptions on opportunities and challenges. Read More

An outsider’s view on the UKFIET conference: Diversity, power and anger

by Jonah Bury | Jan 22, 2024 | 2023 UKIFET Conference

I was amazed by the sheer multitude of different stakeholders present at the conference, including international donors, government agencies, academics, freelance consultants, research agencies, implementers, activists and practitioners. Why does this matter? Read More

I AIN’T NO AFTERTHOUGHT: Challenging the non-prioritisation of the educational rights of children with disabilities

by UKFIET | Jan 16, 2024 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Education and Disabilities

This blogpost presents a poem that Basirat Razaq-Shuaib delivered at the 2023 UKFIET Conference. The poem draws attention to the non-prioritisation of children with disabilities...

We tested UKFIET attendants on their Social and Emotional Learning skills. What we found out might surprise you…

by Paulina Valenzuela | Jan 8, 2024 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Learning

Deciding what to measure reveals what we are aiming for, and thus what our priorities are. A learner’s empathy is certainly harder to measure than their capacity to add or multiply, but if they are only graded for math, we are inadvertently saying that is what students and teachers should… Read More

Who matters in Measuring What Matters – Notes on a creative session at the UKFIET 2023 conference

by Fergal Turner, Emily Tusiime, Devotha Mlay and Maurits Spoelder | Dec 20, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Assessment

We wanted to take the subject of learning assessment, a serious and complex topic at the heart of many of the conferences discussions, and address it with a sense of fun and unstructured creativity. Read More

What kind of education policy for Senegal?

by Mireia Gil | Dec 13, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Policymaking

Over time, education policy has been affected by external factors embedded in the very process of (de)colonisation, as well as in an international scene in which multi-scalar actors promote diverse projects to change the education system. Read More

Greening schools: Visible thinking routines for leveraging environmental education in Pakistan

by Razia Iram Sadik and Maham Afzal | Dec 12, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Climate Change, Learning

Green school programmes take on various forms and names worldwide, but at their core, they embrace a “whole school approach". This approach seeks to involve students, educators, and the local community to enhance the school environment and inspire students to identify and address environmental issues at the local level. Read More

Gender equality – a thematically restricted concept?

by Fabricia Devignes and Sally Rosscornes | Nov 30, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Learning

The IIEP-UNESCO Gender at the Centre Initiative banner under which we presented our approach and current applied research strands was conceived of against a backdrop of widespread gender inequalities in education, and of girls’ and women’s right to education too often being unfulfilled and de-prioritised. Read More

What does an ‘effective’ teacher look like? Factors associated with different teacher ‘outcomes’ in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, India

by Rhiannon Moore | Nov 28, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Teachers

This research used mixed methods analysis to examine factors associated with ‘teacher effectiveness’ in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, a context in which the role of the teacher is challenging, contradictory and rapidly changing. Read More

Using data to enhance equity in fragile education systems: Example of Somalia

by Paul Odhiambo and Lotte Renault | Nov 24, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Conflict, Crisis and Emergency

This blog was written by Paul Odhiambo, CARE Somalia/ AGES MEL Manager, and Lotte Renault, Director of Research, CARE USA. It is based on a presentation from the UKFIET 2023...