08 Jul 2024
Event Highlights: Hybrid Symposium: Exploring the global reform scripts of development partners
On Thursday, 9 May 2024, Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), hosted a hybrid symposium on the topic “Exploring the global scripts of development partners.” The symposium was jointly organised by Kobe University and the KIX EMAP Hub, with support from Teachers College, Columbia University and the UNESCO Chair at the Geneva... Read More
08 Jul 2024
Rapid Customised Country Support in Vietnam
In 2021, a team of six experts from Vietnam, including representatives from the Ministry of Education and Training Department of Secondary Education (MoET DoSE), Vietnam National Institute of Education Sciences, and Room to Read, participated in the Learning Cycle on “Integration of 21st Century Skills in Curriculum” facilitated by the Australian Council for Educational Research... Read More
07 Jul 2024
Event Highlights: KIX Maldives National Uptake Forum
The KIX EMAP Hub held the first KIX National Uptake Forum in the Maldives, in partnership with the Republic of Maldives Ministry of Education and the KIX research grantee Villa College, on 29 May 2024. The uptake forum was attended by more than 100 in-person and online attendees. The KIX Maldives National Uptake Forum aimed... Read More
05 Jul 2024
Event Highlights: DHIS2 for Education Conference and Academy 2024 in Sri Lanka
The District Health Information System 2 (DHIS2) for Education Conference and Academy took place in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 6-10 May, and was attended by approximately 100 participants, including representatives from provinces, districts and schools, at both the national and international level. The conference was a collaboration between the Ministry of Education, the University of... Read More
05 Jul 2024
New GPE KIX research projects in the EMAP region
русский I العربية The Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) has selected new projects from its two recent calls for proposals for applied research projects on Knowledge and Innovation for Achieving Gender Equality and Social Inclusion at School and Strengthening Education Data Systems and Data Use. The initiatives cover a wide... Read More
04 Jul 2024
Education System Resilience (ESR): Moving Beyond the Buzzwords
In this blogpost, Leanne Cameron presents a scoping study related to education system resilience (ESR), including a framework for conceptualising ESR. Across the world, disruptions to education have steadily grown, with increasing rates of natural disasters, conflicts, climate change impacts, pandemics, and more existential threats to education, such as the rise of generative artificial intelligence,... Read More
04 Jul 2024
The Potential of Futures and Foresight Thinking in Education System Planning for Resilience in an Uncertain Future
In this blogpost, Ella Page focuses on the potential of futures and foresight approaches to building the resilience and adaptive capacity of education systems in order to navigate complex and uncertain futures. The scoping study commissioned by the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange and implemented by Education Development Trust proposed a framework... Read More
03 Jul 2024
Meet the New KIX EMAP Knowledge Leads
The KIX EMAP Hub welcomes two new Knowledge Leads to the team. Aditi Desai is working as the Knowledge Lead for Southeast Asia. Seu’ula Johansson-Fua is working as the Knowledge Lead for the Pacific. Read more about them below. Aditi Desai is the KIX EMAP Knowledge Lead for Southeast Asia (Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR,... Read More
03 Jul 2024
Evidence & Policy Call for Papers – Special Issue on Research (Mis)use and Mis/Disinformation in and around Education
Mis- and dis-information are growing problems world-wide, corrupting trust and engagement in consumer markets, media, politics, and other institutions. This issue is particularly concerning for research-driven areas that involve public policy. Education is a prime area. Not only do education policymakers seek ‘research-based’ policy, but schools themselves, while subjected to false information campaigns, are also... Read More
27 Jun 2024
The Missing Inner Dimension of System Change
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s “Systems Thinking” blog series, Jamie Bristow and Rosie Bell argue that lack of attention to the psychological and cultural dimension of systems is widespread – but these inner factors are fundamental to global crises and the approaches we require. In 1972, the Club of Rome published the world’s... Read More