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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.

Chief executive Patrick Brazier will be delivering a plenary session at this year’s Teacher Skills Forum in Jordan on Sunday 10 March 2019.

National Careers Week is from 4-8 March and, as a leading authority on careers and employability services in the UK, we are fully supporting the campaign with a range of activities and events during the week.

Education Development Trust is delighted to have been awarded funds from Dubai Cares’ Evidence for Education in Emergencies (E-Cubed) research envelope to continue our valuable work on who teaches refugees.