Tag: Curriculum - Page 2 - The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET)

Spotlight on Ethiopia’s Secondary Education Challenges

by Dawit Tibebu Tiruneh and Tebeje Molla | May 1, 2024 | Learning

The education system in Ethiopia has been grappling with a substantial crisis. Continuing civil war and political instability have disrupted the educational trajectories of millions of Ethiopian children. Read More

‘Emancipated Learning’: Indonesia’s education reforms and INOVASI

by Mark Heyward | Oct 25, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Learning

This brief article explores how Innovation for Indonesia’s School Children (INOVASI) used a problem-driven iterative adaptation (PDIA) approach to address learning loss and to support education reform in Indonesia. Read More

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

by Claire Hedges and Purna Shrestha | Feb 27, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference

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

Conversations for Change: Response to FCDO position paper ‘Addressing the climate, environment and biodiversity crises in and through girls’ education’

by Rachel Wilder, Terra Sprague, Jo Westbrook and Ben Durbin | Feb 23, 2023 | Climate Change, Policymaking

The resounding message that emerged from the UKFIET event is that the status quo is unacceptable: education needs to change. In this blog, we welcome FCDO’s commitment to delivering this change, and offer recommendations for where more needs to be done. Read More

‘Mining their lands and taking education out of their hands’ – Case of Freeport in West Papua

by Lewis Pyke | Mar 7, 2022 | Learning

There are few mines that can claim to be as destructive as the Freeport-operated Grasberg/Nemangkawi mine in Indonesian-occupied West Papua. Freeport-McMoran and its Indonesian subsidiary PT Freeport Indonesia have brought immeasurable suffering to the local Amungme and Kamoro communities since a Contract of Work was signed with the Indonesian government… Read More

Following FACTS to Recover and Revamp Nigeria’s Education System During and Beyond COVID-19

by Thelma Obiakor | Feb 18, 2021 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Thelma Obiakor, London School of Economics and Centre for the Studies of the Economies of Africa (CSEA), and Adedeji Adeniran, RISE Nigeria and CSEA. It...

Decolonising Higher Education: Bring Students Back In

by Yifei Yan | Jan 28, 2021 | Decolonisation, Higher Education

This blog is written by Yifei Yan, Fellow, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. Yifei explains how and why it is imperative that the...

Preparing young people for a better future in the UK: Addressing social justice through the curriculum

by Linda Peck | Nov 23, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This article was written by Linda Peck of AlignEd International Schools are now grappling with how to transform the curriculum to address the unprecedented challenges that have...

Charting a New Course: Education Systems After COVID-19

by Dzingai Mutumbuka and Marla Spivack | Oct 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Dzingai Mutumbuka, Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Commission for UNESCO, and Marla Spivack, RISE Research Manager and Research Fellow at Harvard...

Embedding Social and Emotional Learning across the Curriculum

by UKFIET | Dec 19, 2019 | 2019 UKFIET Conference

This blog was written by Curriculum Foundation and originally published on their website on 2 December 2019. During UKFIET 2019 this year we were pleased to present a paper on...

Co-creation of the Journey4Life: a youth empowerment curriculum designed with young people

by Marina Todesco and Nina Pavlovska | Sep 2, 2019 | 2019 UKFIET Conference

This blog was written by Nina Pavlovska, Training and Innovation Manager, and Marina Todesco, Research Specialist, at Dance4Life. Marina will be making a presentation at the...

Beyond Literacy and Numeracy: Rethinking the Curriculum – Interview with Paul Vare

by Paul Vare | Mar 2, 2017 | 2017 UKFIET Conference, Learning, Literacy and Numeracy

Interview with Paul Vare, co-convenor for sub-theme on Beyond Literacy and Numeracy: Rethinking the Curriculum What excites you about this theme? The sub-theme uses the term...