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Transforming Education Summit: our call for world leaders

by Takyiwa Danso | Sep 12, 2022 | Education and Disabilities

The countdown begins for world leaders and the international education community to convene in New York on 19 September at the Transforming Education Summit (TES). The summit will mobilise political ambition, action and solutions to transform the future of education and accelerate progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) –… Read More

Contrasting teachers’ expectation and practices of interactions with parents in rural Sitapur, India

by Mansi Nanda | Oct 4, 2021 | 2021 UKFIET Conference, Teachers

This blog was written by Mansi Nanda, PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Mansi’s research looks at primary school teachers’ perspectives around...

Revisiting network governance to ‘build back better’; the need for high-trust partnerships

by Melanie Ehren | Sep 29, 2021 | 2021 UKFIET Conference

This blog was written after the 2021 UKFIET conference by the co-convenors of one of the six conference themes: Governance, Power and Planning. The co-convenors are Sally...

Looking back to move forward: Education pathways out of the pandemic

by Susan Nicolai and Moizza Binat Sarwar, | Jul 7, 2021 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Susan Nicolai, Senior Research Fellow, and Moizza Binat Sarwar, Research Fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). It was originally published...

Reclaiming education during a pandemic

by Gurumurthy Kasinathan and Sriranjani Ranganathan | Sep 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Learning

This article was written by Gurumurthy Kasinathan, Director, IT for Change (working in school and teacher education for a just digital society); and Sriranjani Ranganathan,...

Rethinking education in the time of COVID-19: What can we contribute as researchers?

by Pauline Rose | Apr 7, 2020 | COVID-19

This blog was written by Professor Pauline Rose, Director of the REAL Centre at the University of Cambridge. It is the first in a series of blogs reflecting on the impacts of the...

Opinion: How debt burdens could cripple Africa’s COVID-19 response

by David Archer | Mar 31, 2020 | COVID-19, Critique

This blog was written by David Archer, head of participation and public services at ActionAid, having been head of education for many years. He is a co-founder of the Global...

How are countries addressing the Covid-19 challenges in education? A snapshot of policy measures

by Gwang-Chol Chang and Satoko Yano | Mar 25, 2020 | COVID-19, Policymaking

This blog was written by Gwang-Chol Chang and Satoko Yano, UNESCO’s Section of Education Policy. It was originally published on the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report...