Over two days, the Festival of Education hosts over 300 sessions delivered by educationalists from around the world.
Over half of the Festival’s content is selected from public applications. The Festival Advisory Board is an integral part of this process, helping to ensure our content is relevant to people working in schools and colleges today. The remaining content is curated by the Festival team together with core content partners.
The application process provides an opportunity to discover new speakers and ideas, ensuring a diverse Festival in terms of both content and participants.
Applying
Applications are welcome from individuals and organisations eager to share their knowledge, insights, and innovative ideas at the Festival of Education 2027.
There are three application routes to speak at the 2027 UK Festival:
- Educator Route: For employees or governors of a school, college, university, early years setting, or registered training provider.
- Open Route: For anyone else.
- Short Sessions (10-20 min): For employees or governors of a school, college, university, early years setting, or registered training provider.
To ensure a wide breadth of content that reflects the diverse landscape of education, applications are sought across a range of categories relevant to schools, colleges, and early years settings in the following categories:
- Accountability & Governance
- AI & EdTech
- Attendance & Belonging
- Arts & Humanities
- Business & Operations
- Careers
- Curriculum & Assessment
- Disadvantage & Social Mobility
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Early Years & Primary
- FE, Apprenticeships & Skills
- Flourishing
- Leadership
- Literacy, Oracy & English
- Recruitment & Staff Wellbeing
- Safeguarding & PSHE
- SEND, Specialist & AP
- STEM
- Teacher Training & Development
- Teaching & Learning
Mentoring from BAMEed
If you’d be interested in this opportunity and would value being mentored by BAMEed: we are experienced partners for the Festival of Education and have curated several sessions and panels over the years. Please mention in the ‘Additional Information’ section that you would like to be mentored by BAMEed.
Access the full information and submit your application here