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Education Development Trust

'''Education Development Trust (formerly CfBT Education Trust) is a large not-for-profit organisation which provides education services in the United Kingdom (UK) and internationally. The charity is based in Reading, UK.

History
Tony Abrahams founded the Centre for British Teachers in 1968 with the objective of helping British teachers working abroad. With activity centred in Germany, the organisation's vision was not only to recruit English teachers but also to offer them professional and welfare support within a structure that they would not otherwise have had. It was constituted as a registered charity in 1976.

The appointment of Neil McIntosh in 1991 marked a new era for the organisation. Previously chief executive of Voluntary Service Overseas, Neil saw the potential for international operations and steered the organisation with a new mission: to contribute to education in developing countries. Throughout the 1990s, CfBT developed it's expertise as a manager of aid-backed reform programmes in developing countries.

It subsequently expanded into offering a range of research, consultancy and support services to the education sector and operating as a contractor for a number of UK government education initiatives, such as the Young, Gifted and Talented Programme which it managed on behalf of the then Department for Children, Schools and Families.

To reflect the organisation's diverse portfolio of global activity, the name, Centre for British Teachers, officially changed to CfBT Education Trust in 2006. In November 2012, Steve Munby, former chief executive of the National College for School Leadership, took over as chief executive.

Name Change from CfBT Education Trust
With further international growth since 2006, and a strong focus on multiple aspects of school system reform, the organisation wanted to have a name that better reflected its mission. The new strapline of Education Development Trust is ‘transforming lives through improving education around the world’.

For Legal reasons, there are some parts of the organisation who have not yet changed their name with the parent organisation.

Activities
Education Development Trust delivers system-wide improvements, developed over years of international good practice and from investment in education research.

Designing and implementing school system reform Education Development Trust works with governments and others in charge of determining the content and direction of education in diverse countries.

School inspection and external quality review Education Development Trust has experience in school inspection and evaluation having inspected schools around the world for more than 20 years. Education Development Trust has collaborated with Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills in England

Delivering specialist expertise and recruitment services for English language teaching around the world Education Development Trust, established as the Centre for British Teachers in 1968, has its origins in international English language teaching, or ELT. The Trust also has a centre of English language teaching excellence in Brunei.

Providing expert careers advice and guidance systems and services Education Development Trust is a service provider in the UK for over 20 years, managing programmes delivering careers, employment and skills support.

'''Supporting school improvement in both private and government schools CfBT Schools Trust is a large family of schools spread across the East Midlands and Thames Valley regions of England. There are 11 primary schools and six secondary schools in the trust, of which four are free schools based in London and Reading.

Every year Education Development Trust finances a substantial programme of public benefit research and development.

Research
Education Development Trust invests annually in its programme of educational research that is free to download from the website.