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Gender gaps in education widen significantly at the time of adolescence due to the compounding disadvantage faced by girls, including negative gender norms, and health and safety risks. Our Girls’ Education Challenge project in Kenya works to support girls in a tailored way as they transition to secondary or vocational education and training pathways. In this case study, we illustrate the power of our guiding principle for adolescent girls’ education: as girls grow, we need to grow with them.

Following the national roll out of the Early Career Framework (ECF) and reformed suite of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) in September, Robin Walker MP, Minister of State for School Standards, has sent a letter to schools updating on progress and upcoming improvements. As a delivery partner of both the ECF and NPQ, Education Development Trust is pleased to see the programmes recognised as a critical part of the UK’s ‘world-class teacher development system.’

On Tuesday 22 March, we held our very first Delivery Partner National Conference in Birmingham, UK. Early Career Professional Development Programme and National Professional Qualifications Delivery Partners from across England gathered to collaborate and share best practice and ideas.

One of the newest additions to Education Development Trust’s UK portfolio, the School-Led Tutoring Programme has trained, assessed and endorsed thousands of School-Led Tutors across the nation since its launch in November 2021. This work aligns directly with Education Development Trust’s overarching vision to transform lives by improving education and our decades’ long legacy of supporting pupils by providing them with enhanced opportunities to learn and thrive. We have been delighted to see the incredible progress made in the initial few months of the programme and we are heartened to know the important difference our work is making to pupils and educators who are working hard to overcome the significant challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

On 16 March 2022, EDT was pleased to host a panel session as ASEAN Ministers of Education met with UK government officials and education specialists to discuss education challenges following COVID-19.

How did schools in Jordan adjust to the sudden shift to distance learning and what can we learn from the country’s approach to inclusive education during the pandemic? Learning Bridges is an innovative blended learning model adopted by Ministry of Education in Jordan in partnership with UNICEF and EdDevTrust. To date, the programme has enabled half a million children to continue their engagement with education during Covid related school closures.

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.