Festival of Education 2026

Thursday 2 July 2026

9.30am-5pm

Wellington College

EducationScape is returning to Wellington College for the 16th annual Festival of Education, where approximately 300 sessions will be held across the two days covering the latest trends, research, and innovations in education.

At 4pm, NFER’s Senior Research Manager, Matthew Walker, will be presenting on ‘High-SEND Schools: Distribution, Drivers and Impact’. This session will present new NFER research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, investigating the uneven distribution of pupils with SEND across mainstream schools in England.