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    EDT partners with Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Councils to support refugees to find work in the UK through new programme
    ImpactEd’s Annual Evaluation Report of the National Tutoring Programme highlights key tutoring recommendations
    EDT partners with Cornwall Council to support disadvantaged young people on Yep! Youth Engagement Programme
    EDT to help more individuals upskill to enter England’s early years sector through new Skills Bootcamps in Early Years
    SPP and UCL knowledge exchange brings together European partners to peer review
    EDT partners with Sharjah Private Education Authority (SPEA) to conduct inspections for 64 private schools
    EDT celebrates impact on education in Ethiopia as the TARGET programme draws to a close
    EDT presents findings on refugee teacher professional development at the Global Refugee Forum 2023
    EDT reaches 12.3 million learners globally in 2022-23
    EDT pledges commitment to refugee learners
    EDT attends the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood's ‘Shaping Us’ National Symposium
    Teaching and thriving in refugee settings: creating an enabling environment
    Andrew Mitchell, UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, applauds BLF’s impact on Rwanda’s education sector at Girls’ Education Symposium
    EDT named as provider for new NPQ in Leading Primary Mathematics
    EDT and IIEP-UNESCO bring ministers together for key knowledge workshop in Ugandan refugee settlement
    Dan Sandhu to join Education Development Trust as Chief Executive Officer
    EDT’s Building Learning Foundations team co-hosts successful East Africa Learning policy Forum
    EDT at the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Women and Work
    UK Special Envoy on Gender and Equality visits our Building Learning Foundations girls’ club in Rwanda
    St Andrew’s School wins award for ‘Best Education Environment’
    EDT at the Education World Forum 2023
    Building Learning Foundations programme awarded A+ rating by FCDO
    EDT Early Career Framework OFSTED Report published
    Celebrating ten years of the Girls’ Education Challenge in Kenya
    EDT welcomes ministry officials to key workshop on refugee teacher management in Kenya
    EDT and ImpactEd publish report into benefits of school-led tutoring
    Unleashing greatness: EEF's three-year evaluation of Schools Partnership Programme
    Focusing on equity in leadership and careers aspiration on International Women’s Day
    ‘Systems Thinking’ – new book released by NORRAG features EDT research
    Remembering Sir Jim Rose
    Carbon Reduction Plan details EDT’s journey to UK Net Zero emissions
    EDT accredited as a Disability Confident Employer
    Impressive results published from the Early Years Professional Development Programme
    Event - Leading teaching and learning together: the role of the middle tier
    EDT reaches 9.2 million learners globally in 2021-22
    EDT expertise supports FCDO paper on climate crisis and girls’ education
    Contract win for next phase of Early Years Professional Development Programme
    EDT maintains consistent ‘excellent’ Merlin Standard for work with supply chains
    Executive leaders learn and collaborate at NPQEL residential conference
    EDT shares education expertise at the Schools and Academies Show
    Celebrating ‘my health, my dignity’ on International Day of the Girl Child, 2022
    EDT welcomes Development Director, FCDO, to TARGET school
    We teach here - a series of films
    Education Development Trust to deliver new National Careers Service contract
    Celebrating the completion of the successful Early Years Professional Development programmes
    School leadership event in Sierra Leone draws experts across Africa
    Enhancing our National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) and Early Career Framework (ECF) programme
    New Careers Guidance programme launches in Dorset
    UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits BLF work in Rwanda
    BLF Rwanda hosts events to celebrate International Day for Women in Mathematics
    Rwanda programme boosts female leadership in primary schools
    Education Development Trust hosts National Symposium on Girls’ Education
    EDT selected as lead provider for two new National Professional Qualifications
    Department for Education white paper amplifies commitment to teacher professional development
    Government praises progress under Early Careers Framework and National Professional Qualifications
    EDT hosts Delivery Partner National Conference on teacher development
    Southeast Asia leaders and UK experts examine education disruption
    International Women’s Day 2022: #BreakingtheBias in education
    A look at the facts for National Apprenticeship Week 2022
    Panel discussion: teacher management in crisis contexts
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  • Exploring school improvement through external review with Noelle Buick and Valerie Dunsford
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    Working closely with educators, including in early years settings, young people, adults, and businesses, we provide careers, employment, and skills support. Bridging the gap between education, training, and employment is key to our mission of transforming lives.

    We design and deliver impactful learning and development programmes for educators in the UK. Incorporating insights from our global experience into our practice, we deliver expert knowledge, programme design, and implementation methods through trusted partnerships with governments, academics, and multilateral agencies. We help clients and partners apply their knowledge to local contexts throughout England, to benefit all learners, particularly those in the most disadvantaged communities. In our latest annual impact findings, we achieved:

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    We empower schools, enabling them to support each other and lead improvement. We deliver evidence based flexible training and professional development.

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    We deliver high quality Careers Services providing support into learning and work. We offer training and support from early career teaching, through to senior leadership.

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    We provide guidance, supporting aspirations and improving attainment in schools, colleges and other organisations, delivered in partnership.

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    We collaborate with thousands of employers, helping to facilitate links with education and skills initiatives, benefitting both their business and the local community.

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    Working closely with educators, including in early years settings, young people, adults and businesses, we provide careers, employment, and skills support.

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    EDT partners with Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Councils to support refugees to find work in the UK through new programme

    We are excited to announce that EDT is a partner in the launch of the People Hub Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly (CIOS), and our specialism is to support refugees to find work, retrain or upskill.

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    Improving school attendance by fostering a sense of community belonging

    Since 2010, school absence rates in England have gradually increased, and were undoubtedly exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite a small decrease in persistent absences from 2022 to 2023, attendance rates have not yet returned to pre-pandemic levels. In this article, we explore the causes of persistent school absences, and identify promising interventions to ensure more pupils in England consistently attend school.

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    ImpactEd’s Annual Evaluation Report of the National Tutoring Programme highlights key tutoring recommendations

    We are delighted to share the positive impact of the National Tutoring Programme, and tutoring in general, in ImpactEd’s latest Annual Evaluation Report for the academic year 2022/23.

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    The future direction for careers in England: maximising opportunities for personalised guidance within school and beyond

    During National Careers Week in the UK, Mark De Backer, EDT’s Deputy Director for Young People’s Services, considers whether 2024 could be the year that England shapes its careers system’s future. While there have been promising steps forward in shaping England’s careers provision in recent years, there remain significant opportunities for improvement.

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