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Today, we celebrate International Women’s Day and people around the world are coming together on the theme of ‘breaking the bias’ to fight gender imbalances in our homes, workplaces and communities. Marked for over 100 years, we know that International Women’s Day is an important annual occasion to celebrate milestones reached, elevate visibility of persistent issues, and catalyse positive change towards gender equality. Today, we join the large-scale global call to action for a fairer and more inclusive world.

If we consider the specific needs of genders in the delivery of education as we do with other factors such as disability, then the benefits of gender-responsive education can be felt by all.

Education Development Trust is excited to mark the start of National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) today – a celebration of the power of apprenticeships. Over the next seven days, we will be raising awareness of the range, diversity and accessibility of apprenticeships and the incredible opportunities they can afford people throughout their careers.

EDT was recently invited to take part in a panel discussion hosted by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) discussing teacher management in crisis contexts. Our Senior Education Consultant, Helen West, and Senior Research Officer, Donvan Amenya, joined experts from Colombia University, UNHCR, INEE, RISE and the IGAD Regional Program on Education, to share best practice for teachers in challenging settings across Myanmar and East Africa.

Improving learning outcomes for girls requires gender-sensitive, participatory, and context-driven solutions. In this commentary, we reflect on the results of a recent baseline analysis conducted for our latest pilot intervention under the Building Learning Foundations Programme – the launch of girls’ clubs in Rwanda.

The impact of our work is critical to all we do at Education Development Trust. In this review, the third of our Annual Impact Reviews, we present the ways in which our work has made a positive difference to learners, teachers, leaders and education systems around the world, and how in another exceptional year, we have strived to further our mission to improve lives by transforming education worldwide.

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.

In recent years there’s been a shift in how we nurture teachers at the beginning of their career journeys, so how has a ‘golden thread’ approach to training Early Career Teachers helped solve the teacher retention equation?

The need to improve the quality of learning outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged students, is the greatest challenge facing education policymakers around the world – and improved teaching quality is perhaps the biggest driver for improving learning outcomes. In this report, we reflect on the practical steps that have been taken in England to improve teacher professionalism, but we believe that the insights this example provides will have a resonance and relevance for policymakers and education leaders in many other countries across the world.

The Connected Learning Centre (CLC), part of Education Development Trust, supports schools and other settings in using digital technologies creatively and critically. Importantly, it makes technology accessible to girls through the use of gender-responsive pedagogy– and engages teachers, leaders, parents and communities to do the same.