Rethinking the education workforce: Making the invisible visible
This blog originally appeared on the UKFIET website and was written by Katie Godwin (the Commission’s Education Workforce Initiative Research Lead) and Claire Hedges…
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GIS for Education Working Group launches to promote data-driven decision-making
Around the world, individuals are using maps to power everyday decisions: how do I navigate from my home to the nearest hospital? How many supermarkets are in my community? What public transportation is available for me to take to work?
The Roaring Twenties: Educating the COVID-19 generation
Education will largely determine whether the radical change of the 2020s will reduce or increase the current inequality of opportunity and wealth that characterizes the world today.
Innovative analysis for the education workforce: Sierra Leone research and policy papers
The Education Workforce Initiative (EWI), funded by UK Aid, partnered with Fab Inc. and Sierra Leone’s Teaching Service Commission (TSC) to support strengthening the education workforce. The research and analysis applied a systemic lens across the workforce lifecycle…
A talk with the author: Change agents at the middle-tier of education systems
From Ontario (Canada) to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), there are untold stories behind many of the recent most impactful and sustainable education reforms. These include middle-tier professionals –school advisors, supervisors, pedagogical coaches, and teacher mentors – who are…
Creating learning teams to #SaveOurFuture: The Girls’ Access to Education (GATE) program in Sierra Leone
The COVID-19 crisis has created extremely challenging circumstances for more than 63 million primary and secondary teachers globally due to massive and extended school closures and now reopenings. Teachers have been rapidly mobilizing and innovating to deliver distance learning…
Key lessons on effective leadership during COVID-19 and beyond
Leadership at every level – from school leaders to district offices to ministries of education – is a critical part of education systems, and never more so than in the current context of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The waves of school closures and reopenings around the world have clearly demonstrated how important good…
EnlightED round table: Averting an education catastrophe for the world’s children
Commission Director Liesbet Steer and Commissioner Ju-Ho Lee spoke with Chief Learning Officer at IE University Nick Van Dam about the #SaveOurFuture campaign, the need to rethink the education workforce, and the opportunity to harness technology to personalize learning during the enlightED Virtual Edition 2020 conference…
Education Workforce Initiative country collaborations in Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Vietnam
Over the past year, the Education Workforce Initiative (EWI) has collaborated with Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Vietnam to catalyze new thinking to address each country’s specific education workforce challenges and propose concrete options for reform drawing on the evidence and visions outlined in the Transforming the Education Workforce…
International Common Assessment of Numeracy and COVID-19 Crisis
ICAN stands for the ‘International Common Assessment for Numeracy’ and is a large-scale multi-country citizen-led assessment. Put in simple terms, it also stands for the resilience – for the promise, that one could proudly say: “I Can.” ICAN was conducted in 13 countries, reached over 20,000 children …