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The education and development forum, UKFIET, will host its biennial international conference in Oxford from 17-19 September. Education Development Trust has a long association with the conference.

From 1 August 2019, we will be delivering the Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge for Schools programme (ASK) in the London region working with schools, students, teachers, parents and employers to promote apprenticeships to Key Stages 3 to 5.

We are delighted to have been successful in our bid to deliver the Department for Education’s Early Years Professional Development Programme (EYPDP).

Research Officer, Rachael Fitzpatrick, presented on the findings of our study into what lies behind Vietnam’s learning success at this year’s Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) conference in San Francisco from 14-18 April. With more than 3,000 registrants attending some 800 sessions across four days, the theme of this year’s conference was ‘education for sustainability’.

London Connected Learning Centre, our centre dedicated to extraordinary learning with and about technology, recently took over the fifth floor of the Tate Modern in London as a Tate Exchange associate. London CLC have been associates of the program for three years, running digital and non-digital activities with pupils aged 8-11.

This year will mark the 12th anniversary of IBM Robo Challenge, the annual competition which invites teams of children from as many as 12 London primary schools to take part in a series of competitive programming challenges using Lego NXT Robots.