04 Nov 2025
Event Highlights: NORRAG Regional Webinar: Mapping Regional Education Policy Challenges
This interregional webinar on durable education policy challenges across borders, speakers from Brazil, Turkiye and Uganda convened to share insights from their respective contexts and engage with the audience in an interactive Q&A. The session also showcased our Social Systems Map available to all members of the NORRAG Network, as a tool for fostering collaboration... Read More
03 Nov 2025
GPE KIX Webinar: Using Data to Improve Foundational Learning
Hosted by GPE KIX and partners from the Global Coalition for Foundational Learning (GCFL)—including the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and the Gates Foundation—this webinar brings together key stakeholders to share insights on strengthening education data systems and improving the availability and use of learning data at the classroom, district, national, and cross-sectoral levels. Goal:... Read More
30 Oct 2025
Taking Private Tutoring Out of the Shadows
In this blogpost, Mark Bray introduces the UNESCO report Whose visions for what learning? Perspectives, policies and practices in private supplementary tutoring, which emerged from a Policy Forum hosted by UNESCO to discuss how private tutoring affects equity, quality and governance. In October 2024, UNESCO hosted a Policy Forum entitled Private supplementary tutoring: A multi-stakeholder dialogue... Read More
28 Oct 2025
EiE Hub Members Urge COP30 Leaders to Prioritise Education in Climate Action
Members of the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies (EiE Hub) are calling on world leaders to place children’s education at the centre of discussions during the upcoming COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil. The EiE Hub warns that the climate crisis is having a devastating impact on learning worldwide, disrupting education for at least... Read More
27 Oct 2025
Event Highlights: FA1 Learning Series 7 & KIX EMAP Webinar 25: How Policymakers Think: Sharing Research for Policy Use
русский I العربية The FA1 Learning Series 7 and KIX EMAP Webinar 25, “How Policymakers Think: Sharing Research for Policy Use”, took place on 25 September 2025. The webinar was part of UNESCO’s Functional Area 1 (FA1) Learning Series 2025, and was co-organised by the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX) Europe,... Read More
27 Oct 2025
UNESCO Invites Think Pieces on the Future of International Cooperation in Education
UNESCO’s IdeasLAB is calling for think pieces that share perspectives and provocations on what will shape the future of international cooperation in education, due November 10, 2025. The call is linked here: in English and in French. At a time when the multilateral system is under significant strain, our call seeks perspectives about recent changes in global governance, multilateralism and... Read More
27 Oct 2025
Amnesty International Side Event at the Human Rights Council’s Social Forum
Amnesty International will be attending the Human Rights Council’s Social Forum on 31st October and will be present for the following events: Amnesty International Side Event – The transformative role of HRE as a frontline defence for the protection and promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms Date: 31 October 2025 Time: 13:30–15:00 CET Location: Room... Read More
23 Oct 2025
Making Peace Central to Education: A Child-Rights Perspective
In this blogpost, Aitana Jáñez Pedrayes reports on initiatives to promote a child-rights perspective on the role of education in fostering peaceful societies, with a focus on the 2025 report (A/HRC/59/33), prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the child-friendly version of that report, “The Peace Train”, of which... Read More
Event Highlights: Discovering Outcomes-Based Financing in Early Childhood Care and Education
Tuesday 21 October 2025 15:00 to 16:30 CEST Online (Zoom) VIEW THE SESSION On Tuesday 21st October, the first in a two-part webinar series on “Discovering Outcomes-Based Financing in Early Childhood Care and Education” was organized by the Collective Learning Initiative (CLI). The Webinar, which recorded close to 200 participants, provided opportunity for participants to... Read More
16 Oct 2025
School Clustering Policy in Pakistan
In this blogpost by Sajid Ali, Aisha Naz Ansari, and Khadija Gul share the findings of an analysis of a 2021 school clustering policy in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The authors address the strengths and challenges of the policy and find that school clustering has the potential to bring about positive change if done well. Over the... Read More