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<p>DFID has a dedicated Education Research Team with a £12m per annum portfolio of
innovative research on education systems, raising learning outcomes, and learning
and skills beyond primary education. This research portfolio has a particular focus
on disadvantaged groups and the pursuit of an equitable start to learning for all.
Research commissioned through this team, along with the UK Research Community, has
ensured that teachers, equity and systems reform are at the centre of DFID’s new education
policy.</p><p>DFID has commissioned rigorous reviews of existing evidence and, as
a result of the findings, concluded a focus on children with disabilities. For example,
one research project, which is funded by DFID through the UK Economic and Social Research
Council, investigates different modalities for teaching literacy in deaf communities
in India, Ghana and Uganda. Wider inclusion and equity issues are fundamental to all
DFID’s education research programmes, and we seek to mainstream them.</p>
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