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The Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE) is a five year programme of research, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), with partner institutions in Bangladesh, Ghana, India, South Africa and the UK. Over 80 million children in the developing world are not enrolled in school and many more fail to attend regularly or attain basic skills. At least 250 million fail to access secondary schooling to grade 9. CREATE’s research aims to increase knowledge and understanding of the reasons why so many children fail to access and complete basic education successfully. It analyses policy and practice with the aim of reducing educational exclusion and expanding access to basic education for children between the ages of 5 and 15 years. CREATE uses an expanded vision of access that includes meaningful learning, sustained access and access provided equitably.

CREATE is co-ordinated from the Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, UK.