26 Mar 2025
Event Highlights: KIX EMAP Webinar 24: Inclusive Education in Europe and Central Asia: Inclusive Education in Practice
русский KIX EMAP Webinar 24, “Inclusive Education in Europe and Central Asia: Inclusive Education in Practice,” took place on 27 February 2025. This was the second webinar in a two-part series, delving into the practical application of inclusive education principles across Europe and Central Asia. The event was organised with simultaneous interpretation in English, Mongolian,... Read More
24 Mar 2025
Book Release: Time in Education Policy Transfer
KIX EMAP Lead Researcher Gita Steiner-Khamsi has published her latest work Time in Education Policy Transfer: The Seven Temporalities of Global School Reform. This open access book investigates a topic underexplored in policy transfer: time. Drawing on well-known theories from comparative education, public policy studies, political science, and sociology, but written in an easy-to-understand language,... Read More
20 Mar 2025
When the School Floods: Navigating the Teaching Landscape in Kenya as a Youth Climate Change Activist
In this blogpost, which is based on a recent article in Youth, Emmanuel Simiyu Wanjala and Elizabeth Osumba share how youth climate activists who are also teachers act to ensure continuity in education through climate disruptions. The blogpost is part of NORRAG’s blog series on Provocations for Education from Youth Climate Activism. Teachers in K-12... Read More
19 Mar 2025
Call for Abstracts: UKFIET Conference 2025
The Education and Development Forum (UKFIET) has an open call for abstracts for the UKFIET Conference 2025. The in-person conference will be held at the University of Oxford Examination Schools, Oxford, UK on 16 – 18 September 2025. They welcome proposals for all presentation types. Download the Abstract Writing Pack which provides full details of... Read More
19 Mar 2025
OHCHR Establish Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group on an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child - Human Rights Council Resolution 56/5
On 18 March 2025, the Human Rights Council established an Open-ended intergovernmental working group on an optional protocol to explore the possibility of drafting an optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This initiative focuses on strengthening the right to early childhood education, free pre-primary education, and free secondary education under... Read More
UNESCO Chair Series in Comparative Education Policy with Manuel Enrique Cardoso
Lecture: Thursday 10 April 2025 16:30 to 18:00 CEST Hybrid: S8, Maison de la Paix, Geneva & Online (Zoom) POSTER Open Café: Friday 11 April 2025 10:00 to 11:00 CEST IN PERSON ONLY: Cafeteria, Maison de la Paix, Geneva How do countries and International Organizations value education policies? Introducing the 6 ‘E’s framework READ... Read More
19 Mar 2025
On the Precipice of Progress: National Policy Openings that Increase Forcibly Displaced Adolescent and Youth Enrollment and Retention in Secondary Education
Plan International, Secondary Education Working Group (SEWG), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 2024, Henderson, C and Hough, W National-level policies are vital to the realization of forcibly displaced adolescent and youth engagement in secondary education. As multiple global-level frameworks and commitments are non-binding, national-level laws and the policies formulated within them help provide... Read More
17 Mar 2025
SEP Talks x International Geneva: Moira Faul and Katherine Milligan
The next SEP Talk is coming up! 🗓️ March 20th at 6pm 📍 The SEP Boutique, Confederation Centre first floor, Geneva Two amazing academics, Moira Faul and Katherine Milligan, will talk us through the changes which are rocking the humanitarian system and will share practical tips to build our leadership capacities to manage overwhelm and... Read More
13 Mar 2025
IELS: International Testing Comes to the Kindergarten
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s Early Childhood Education blog series, Diana Sousa, Paul Morris and Peter Moss discuss the limitations of the OECD’s International Early Learning and Child Well-being Study (IELS). OECD, ILSAs and IELS Education has been subject to a spreading web of ‘International Large-Scale Assessments’ (ILSAs). The most prolific... Read More
12 Mar 2025
BAICE Presidential Workshop Series
Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education This year, ahead of the UKFIET 2025 conference, BAICE President Professor Arathi Sriprakash will be hosting a workshop series on anti-racism and reparation. All are warmly welcome to attend and contribute! Please save the dates. Registration details for each workshop are listed below. Online Workshop 1: Debating reparations... Read More