The National Midwifery Education Day takes place on 12th November 2025, live from De Montfort University, Leicester, and streamed UK-wide. This hybrid event combines two linked conferences — the Student Midwife Experience Festival and Educating Future Midwives — bringing together student midwives and educators through interactive watch parties, polls, and live Q&As. The educator conference will tackle key challenges in midwifery teaching, featuring insights from the NMC, RCM, and leading academics. Meanwhile, student panels will explore job prospects, placements, wellbeing, and global opportunities in midwifery. Free and open to all, the event is a major annual platform for shaping the future of UK midwifery education.
12th November 2025, live and online across the UK
The National Midwifery Education Festival is taking place on 12th November.
This unique hybrid programme sees two UK wide livestreamed conferences taking place side by side, broadcast from De Montfort University, Leicester.
One for student midwives (Student Midwife Experience Festival) and the other (Educating Future Midwives) for midwifery academic and teaching staff.
Around the country lecturers and student midwives are setting up watch parties in their midwifery schools to take part, voting online, commenting and sending in questions to the live conference in De Montfort. This is one of midwifery educations main annual platforms to make its voice heard and face the future positively.
150 Midwifery educators are signed up for and examination of the growing challenges in teaching in a system stretched between the NHS and universities. They will be joined by online watch parties. With contributions from the NMC’s Jacqui Williams on the Practice Learning Review: what’s next and Nicky Clark, former LME at Hull looking at ” Trouble ahead – Midwifery Education overview, it will be a challenging and frank day examining midwifery educations policy and practice issues and pointing the way forward.
Heather Bower from the RCM will be bringing colleagues up to date with their latest research and information on “The State of Midwifery Education” so if it matches their previous work expect some new headlines to take back and act on. A great line up of speakers make this a must attend for education staff wrestling to improve midwifery education.
The Student Midwife Experience Festival will be discussing, in a series of student led panels, the current fears about finding jobs on graduation, experience of placements, dealing with traumatic experience, as well as looking at the positive things student midwifery societies are doing to support one another, give voice to student concerns and make time for fun, lifelong friendships and networking while studying. Plus find out how one student midwife managed to go to Hawaii! Have midwifery degree, will travel! Midwifery is one of the great world professions so come and find out how many plan to travel as part of their career and take part in our online poll.
The programmes are free to attend and students can watch online for free. This is midwifery educations UK wide day to make its voice heard and we all hope you can make time to take part from anywhere in the UK
Register for the Student Midwife Experience Festival
Register for the Educating Future Midwives conference
Thanks again for the support of the NMC and exhibitors who help make this unique programme possible.
Neil Stewart, Editorial Director, Maternity & Midwifery Forum
October 2025
