This episode is a recording of a panel conversation that took place at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government during the RISE Annual Conference in September 2023. For the purposes of clarity and length, this podcast is an edited version of the conversation.

The panel featured Nompumelelo Mohohlwane from the Department of Basic Education in South Africa; Rachel Hinton from the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and former RISE Research Director, Lant Pritchett. This conversation was moderated by Laura Savage from the International Education Funders Group.

The panel looks back at the questions that existed at the start of RISE and whether enough has been learnt ten years later. They reflect on the difference between the motivating questions for RISE and the What Works Hub for Global Education. They go on to debate what commitment to learning really means and what cultural shifts are needed for it to materialise, and connected to this, what implementation science really means. The conversation ends with a reflection on the meaning of the thematic shift from systems to implementation.

Links

• Nompumelelo Mohohlwane (webpage)
• Rachel Hinton (webpage)
• Lant Pritchett (webpage)
• Laura Savage (webpage)
• Contract teachers – Why do they work in an NGO setting but not with government? (journal article)
• South Africa Department of Basic Education Research Agenda, 2019 – 2023 (report)
• South Africa’s 5-year NDP “Medium-Term Strategic Framework 2019 – 2024” (report)
• South Africa’s Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (report)
• Rewriting the Grammar of the Education System: Delhi’s Education Reform (A Tale of Creative Resistance and Creative Disruption) (book)
• State of education research (slide in video)
• Smart Buys Report 2023 (report)
• The RISE Podcast: Denis Mizne on Transforming Brazil’s Education System to Deliver Learning (podcast)
• World Development Report 2018 (report)
• Applying