{"id":7239,"date":"2018-05-29T06:31:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T06:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2018-05-29T06:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T06:31:57","slug":"dfids-new-education-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/05\/29\/dfids-new-education-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"DfID's new-old Education policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know DfID had an education policy? \u00a0You'll find it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/dfid-education-policy-2018-get-children-learning\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It includes this:<\/p>\n<p><em>DFID\u2019s new education policy calls for a united effort by global and national leaders to address the learning crisis and ensure poor and marginalised children - who face the greatest challenges - are not left behind. Our response is to tackle the learning crisis at its root; getting children to learn the basics of literacy and numeracy, as well as transferable skills. \u00a0We will focus on three priorities:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>invest in good teaching: support decision-makers ready to take a fresh look at teacher training, recruitment and motivation to tackle the huge shortfall in skilled and motivated teachers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>back system reform which delivers results in the classroom: help teachers to succeed by making education systems more accountable, effective and inclusive, supported by UK expertise<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>step up targeted support to the most marginalised: ensure they benefit from education, particularly hard-to-reach girls, children with disabilities and those affected by conflict and crisis.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At one level it's hard to criticise, as it's all very EFA: <em>education for all<\/em> and is four-square within the mainstream of UNESCO.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/dfid-education-policy-2018-get-children-learning\/dfid-education-policy\">Introduction<\/a> by the Secretary of State, it's more of the same, but with a greater focus on the UK tax-payers' contribution. \u00a0In what follows this, as you'd expect, there\u00a0<em>is<\/em> a mention of SDG 4 [\u00a0inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong opportunities for all ], but it's a passing reference with no mention of sustainability or ESD.<\/p>\n<p>The document goes on at some length and there is lots of detail here about what our money is spent on. \u00a0The trouble is that much this\u00a0could have been (and maybe was) written in 2000, 1960, 1920, ... when the world was not facing the greatest crisis it's ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>The future will look back in puzzlement at this astonishing complacency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know DfID had an education policy? \u00a0You'll find it here. It includes this: DFID\u2019s new education policy calls for a united effort by global and national leaders to address the learning crisis and ensure poor and marginalised children...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}