Education House Oxford 2026: Transforming Systems - Collaborating for A New Paradigm for Education

As we explored in previous editions of Education House, education is the engine that can equip young people with the agency, awareness, creativity and critical thinking necessary to navigate  complex challenges. While some systems are already embracing this broader purpose, a cohesive alignment around a new paradigm for education is still emerging..

“If we are serious about this new paradigm for education, we must move from fragmented action to shared implementation. Education House is designed as a connecting hub – a place to connect purpose, people and capital around long-term systems change.” notes Lasse Leponiemi, Chairman of the HundrED Foundation.

Under the theme Transforming Systems – Collaborating for a New Paradigm for Education, Education House Oxford will explore how collective action can shift education from incremental reform to systemic transformation, a key lever for social change. 

“We are at an inflection point. The challenges young people face are too complex for any one actor to solve. Real progress will depend on developing collective leadership throughout systems that enables enduring change.,” says Wendy Kopp, CEO and Co-Founder of Teach For All

Hosted in Oxford during the annual Skoll World Forum, Education House offers a complementary setting: smaller in scale, structured for dialogue, and intentionally cross-sector. The objective is not another panel conversation, but a catalyst for aligned action.

The programme follows a deliberate learning arc across three interconnected dimensions:

Purpose
How can we accelerate widespread shifts in the purpose of education towards a new paradigm? To support students to shape a better future, education must match strong content delivery with developing agency, ethical judgement, creativity and the capacity to navigate complexity.

People
How are we building the collective leadership required for systems change across all levels of our systems? From educators and social entrepreneurs to policymakers and researchers, the session will examine how we build collective leadership across all levels of our systems.

Philanthropy
How can funders catalyse collective action and long-term systems change to advance a new paradigm for education?  Rather than isolated pilots, philanthropy is increasingly called to enable durable partnerships, shared infrastructure and patient capital that supports implementation at scale.

Registration will open March 18th at 9am GMT. With capacity for 100 attendees, early expression of interest is encouraged.

“At the start of the Transforming Education Summit in 2022 the UN Secretary General spoke about the need to develop education systems that will prioritise collaboration above competition.   Education House was founded to help this process, both to model and to encourage exactly this kind of cross-sector collaboration” says Dominic Regester, Director of Salzburg Global’s Center for Education Transformation.

Education House Oxford is co-convened together with a coalition of global education leaders. Confirmed co-convenors include ShikshaLokam, Global Schools Forum, JA Worldwide, Transcend and VVOB. 

Session partners add practical depth and expertise in research, implementation, digital learning, and global partnerships, including Building Tomorrow, Cambridge University Press & Assessment, IREX, and Learning Equality. 

Founding members of Education House are HundrED, Salzburg Global and Teach For All.