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At edt, 13% of colleagues have declared a disability or long-term health condition. The organisation has been recognised for its ongoing work to support their needs and we have now achieved Disability Confident Employer status.

Investing in early career teachers (ECTs) has never been more important. Following Initial Teacher Training, our Early Career Professional Development Programme (ECPDP) offers the essential specialist support needed to improve practice, build confidence and resilience, leading to better job satisfaction and retention.

We are delighted to announce that edt is a partner in the launch of the Yep! Youth Engagement Programme, which will build the confidence, resilience, and skills of disadvantaged young people in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, UK, helping them to move into employment, education, or training.

Edt has been delivering training for the School-Led Tutoring route of the National Tutoring Programme since 2021, and recently expanded its training offer for the 2022-23 academic year.

Edt hosted the first ever National Symposium on Girls’ Education in Kigali, Rwanda last month. The two-day event brought together over 100 education sector delegates, including the education minister and other high level policy makers and civil society actors.

Global evidence concludes that improving the quality of school leadership is one of the most powerful tools available to education policymakers: build the capacity of school principals to lead change in schools, and higher student achievement surely follows. With this is mind, EdDevTrust considers the case of England, where the quality of school leadership across more than 20,000 schools has been transformed through an integrated set of policy choices.

We welcome the UK government's extension of its £45 million scheme to support young adults into work, at a time when a number of young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET) continues to climb. Based on our extensive experience, we believe this funding needs to be available to a range of services nationally and locally to support those who may fall outside of traditional education routes. Support should also reflect the diversity of the individuals it aims to reach.

The links between education, gender and climate change have been the subject of growing attention in recent months, but must be viewed with attention to nuance. In this commentary, we reflect on these connections and the related discussions from the 2021 WISE Summit, where we hosted a panel session on these important issues.

While many parts of the world have witnessed significant progress in girls’ education and refugee education in recent years, access to learning remains a critical challenge for refugee girls. In this commentary, we reflect on key learnings from a recent research report published by the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), which specifically considers the state of girls’ education in crisis and conflict situations.

We have been working with ministries of education and government bodies in the Middle East and the Gulf countries to support school improvement and inspections of schools since 2007.