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We are delighted to share that our work on the UK government-funded Skills Bootcamps in Early Years has achieved a ‘significant progress’ Ofsted rating, across the areas of leadership and management, and quality of provision.

Available from the 2025-26 academic year onwards, this programme offers Early Career Framework-based support for early career teachers and mentors. It helps them improve practice while building confidence and resilience, leading to better job satisfaction and retention.

On Monday 20th January, we were thrilled to host esteemed education leaders at our Global Dialogue event in London. Global Dialogue is designed to convene important conversations within the education and international communities, about how improving education and skills outcomes can increase life chances around the world. This year’s event invited attendees to consider the theme ‘Transforming education systems: How can effective education policy ensure positive outcomes for all children and young people?’

We are delighted to share our latest annual impact reviews. This year we have produced a global highlights review, along with three regional reviews detailing our impact in the UK, the Global South, and the Middle East and Asia.

We believe education holds the key to ensuring quality learning, improved life chances, and thriving economies, but how exactly requires thoughtful focus on the evidence as to what really works, and practical steps to translate this evidence into meaningful, actionable policy.

Oracy is a field that matters across every single subject, and the benefits to school students are not only academic but extend to strengthening identity and self-actualisation. Despite this, there is a clear challenge in defining oracy and assessing it in schools. Joining us in a brand-new episode of Brighter Futures to discuss the nuances of that challenge are Associate at Oracy Cambridge Alan Howe, and EDT’s Policy & Solutions Director Dr Nicky Platt and Principal Education Advisor Dr Jim Rogers.

We are delighted to share the positive impact of our work on the Department for Education (DfE)’s National Tutoring Programme (NTP) in England, which concluded in August 2024, outlined in ImpactEd’s Final Evaluation Report. The report specifically focuses on the impact of school-led tutors and academic mentors who had access to our training from 2021 to 2024.

EDT is delighted to be working with Leicestershire Local Authority and 29 local schools through the Schools Partnership Programme (SPP), forming a supportive professional learning network (PLN) focused on sustainable school improvement. Working closely with school leadership teams and the Education Effectiveness Team (EET), which supports all education settings in Leicestershire, this partnership focuses on empowering all staff to actively participate in the school improvement process.