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A year on from the Global Disability Summit, what progress has been made?
By Elizabeth Tofaris, Communications Officer, Impact Initiative for International Development Research Taking place a year on from the Global Disability Summit, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Global Education event (supported by the Impact Initiative...
Send my Friend to school campaigners take action in Parliament
Today in Parliament, the APPG hosted a group of twenty young people aged 14 and 15 from ten schools. The ‘campaign champions’ have been leading the Unlock Education for Everyone campaign, in which thousands of schools across the UK have been calling on the Government...
MPs quiz Minister on education in crisis zones
In a roundtable discussion in Parliament today, MPs quizzed Minister Harriet Baldwin on her department’s support for the Education Cannot Wait fund (ECW). ECW is the first ever global multilateral fund dedicated to delivering education for children in countries...
MPs meet director of Education Cannot Wait
The director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Yasmine Sherif, met the APPG today to discuss the organisation’s upcoming replenishment, when the fund will seek new financial commitments from funders. ECW is the first global fund dedicated to delivering education for...
MPs call on Government to unlock education for all
In a Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday, MPs from all parties came together to ask the Government to unlock education for the most marginalised children. The debate looked in particular at how different forces of poverty overlap and compound each other, forcing the...
APPG discuss the global teacher crisis
On Tuesday 27 November, the APPG met to discuss the role of UK Aid in tackling the global teacher crisis. Five guest speakers from across the education sector gave their views to the group and an audience of policy experts, NGOs and government representatives. First...
APPG Global Education AGM
The APPG on Global Education had its annual general meeting on 12th September 2018. Chair Stephen Twigg MP was re-eected by members, alongside Vice Chair Mike Wood MP and David Linden MP. Lord Low of Dalston was also elected as Vice Chair of the Group. Five other...
Global Learning comes to Parliament
On 21st May, young leaders from schools across the country, equipped with banners, posters and buckets of enthusiasm joined the APPG on Global Education for an event to celebrate global learning in Parliament. Students had been involved in a variety of projects,...
MPs debate Government response to education inquiry
In a Westminster Hall debate led by International Development Committee Chair Stephen Twigg last Thursday, MPs from all three major political parties discussed the Committee’s inquiry into DFID’s education programmes and the Government’s subsequent response. Stephen...
55 MPs sign-on to letter calling on the UK Government to commit to financing the Global Partnership for Education
APPG Chair Stephen Twigg MP (Labour) and Henry Smith MP (Conservative) wrote to the Secretary of State for International Development, Penny Mordaunt to request a UK pledge of US$500 million at the Global Partnership For Education Financing Conference in February. Over...