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
10 Mar 2025
Academic Freedom under Siege - Human Rights Conversations
Event information 24 March 2025, 13:00-15:00 Register start 26 February 2025 Register end 24 March 2025 MORE INFORMATION Academic freedom is the foundation of quality education, research, and innovation. It encompasses both the individual’s and the wider society’s ability to reflect, challenge existing concepts, generate new ideas and knowledge, disseminate and apply them. Safeguarding academic freedom is... Read More
10 Mar 2025
Transforming Evidence Network (TEN) Learning Session - March
REGISTER Please join us for the next Transforming Evidence Network (TEN) monthly learning session on Tuesday, March 11th from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. EDT (2:00-3:00 p.m. UK / 3:00-4:00 p.m. CET / 4:00-5:00 p.m. SAST). In this session, we will discuss insights, promising practices, and persisting challenges around knowledge brokering. The Global Partnership for Education... Read More
07 Mar 2025
Rethinking Education for a Just Transition: Women, Sustainability, and Equity
On International Women’s Day, Ana Velazquez and Radhika Iyengar write about a project that seeks to empower women not just as learners—but as leaders in Just Transition movements, ensuring that environmental education reflects real-world experiences of women in climate-vulnerable regions and integrates economic justice principles into sustainability learning. As the world faces intensifying environmental crises,... Read More