There's an urgent need to get all children learning. Working out how to put evidence-based ideas into widespread practice, and into millions of classrooms, is the next frontier. The What Works Hub for Global Education is an international partnership with the goal of ensuring literacy and numeracy for children in low- and middle-income countries.

The final RISE (Research on Improving Systems of Education) conference starts at the Blavatnik School today, capping an eight-year, multi-country, £43m programme that has changed thinking and practice in the push to get the world learning.