Education in focus 6: Educational planning

Planning underpins any educational system and our guests in this episode – Dr Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham Education Foundation and Dr Martin Wedell, University of Leeds – draw on their extensive experience to talk about planning cycles, frameworks and lessons that can be learnt from research in this critical area. 

This episode includes discussion of the following research and initiatives:

• Sustainable Development Goal 4 (United Nations 2015)
• Education policy planning process: an applied framework (UNESCO 1995)
• DFID education policy 2018: Get children learning (DfID 2018)

This British Council publication authored by Dr Martin Wedell also explores aspects of educational planning, specifically in relation to teacher education:

• Teacher education planning handbook (British Council 2017)