Dr. Yusuf Sayed

Biography

Yusuf Sayed is a Professor of Education specializing in global education policy development with a focus on equity, inclusion, and social justice. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was a Professor of International Education Development Policy at the University of Sussex, where he held the South African Research Chair in Teacher Education and was the Founding Director of the Centre for International Teacher Education (CITE) at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in South Africa. With over 40 years of experience as an international education scholar and policy practitioner, his work intersects education rights activism across diverse academic and institutional contexts, employing an interdisciplinary comparative approach informed by varied epistemologies and critical theoretical frameworks. His scholarship emphasizes the implications of national and global education policy goals and the efforts to attain equity and inclusion within the global South. He has authored or co-authored over 20 scholarly and policy-influencing books as well as 200 academic articles and reports, engaging in comparative policy investigations across numerous countries. His current research projects include longitudinal studies of teacher pedagogy in South Africa, the roles of public-private partnerships in education, and the impact of international development agencies on global education policy.

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