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Equity and inclusion The journey of hope: Education for refugee and unaccompanied children in Italy
Sonia Grigt
30 November 2017The Italian legal framework provides a high level of protection for asylum-seeking and unaccompanied minors and a noticeably inclusive approach concerning the integration of these children into the education system. That said, recent developments of the immigration legal framework concerning unaccompanied minors and its impact on the fulfilment of their...
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Equity and inclusion Spain: Hope through diversity
Begoña López Cuesta
29 November 2017Spanish legislation provides for the right of refugees to education and international protection. In practice, however, the absence of a legal framework and institutional infrastructure specifically designed to identify the needs of this target group and provide an appropriate response runs counter to this formal recognition.
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Equity and inclusion Opportunities and hope through education: How German schools include refugees
Dita Vogel, Elina Stock
28 November 2017The Federal Republic of Germany has always been heavily influenced by migration, both of a permanent and temporary nature. Despite high levels of immigration, government policies did not consider Germany a country of immigration until the new residence law that came into force in 2005. Since then, immigration is no...
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Equity and inclusion Newcomers: Hope in a cold climate
Nihad Bunar
31 October 2017The aim of this article is to describe and analyse major patterns of response from Swedish authorities and institutions towards newly arrived, asylum-seeking and refugee children during the last decade.
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Standards and working conditions Twenty years later: International efforts to protect the rights of higher education teaching personnel remain insufficient
Nelly P. Stromquist
18 October 2017The prevailing discourse on higher education has raised a voice concerning quality, equality, and equity—all centered on students. Surprisingly, such discussions have remained relatively silent on another set of actors crucial to the teaching/learning process: higher education personnel.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 The privatisation of education in Uruguay
Eloísa Bordoli, Pablo Martinis, Mauro Moschetti, Stefanía Conde and Marcelo Alfonzo
29 September 2017Over the last few decades, pro-privatisation policies have taken a central place in many processes of educational reform on a global scale. In Latin America, these policies have assumed a key role in educational reform processes, especially since the 1990s.
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Leading the profession Practices, challenges and future prospects in the recruitment and training of teachers in Ethiopia
Dr. Eric Daniel Ananga and Dr. Emmanuel M. J. Tamanja
14 September 2017The study assesses the current practices, future prospects and challenges in the recruitment, selection, and training of the first cycle primary school teachers’ training policy of Ethiopia and puts forward policy recommendations.
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Equity and inclusion Managing the effects of large class sizes on quality education in Ghana
12 September 2017The study aims to identify actual class sizes as against the required size by education providers and policy makers. Further, the study also examines the possible causes and effects of large class sizes. Finally, this study identifies possible ways of managing large class sizes in the Ghanaian education system from...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Nepal: Patterns of privatisation in education
Pramod Bhatta and Tejendra Pherali
6 September 2017This research provides an overview of the trajectories and forms of education privatisation in Nepal, with a special focus on low-fee and chain schools. In doing so, it seeks to contribute to the ongoing, critical debate about the relationships between students’ rights to quality education, teachers’ rights to quality working...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education We the educators
10 August 2017The objective of this literature review was exploratory in nature, and because of the depth of the literature (both academic and non-academic) available on standardisation, personalisation and privatisation, this review focuses primarily on scholarly articles and books published in the past decade.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Spotlight: Cashing in on SDG 4
Antonia Wulff
9 August 2017Education International's Antonia Wulff explains that the Sustainable Development Goal 4 could be summarised as more education of a better quality for all, and that quality and equity must be at the centre of the 2030 Agenda.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Partnership Schools for Liberia: a critical review
Tyler Hook
11 July 2017This report reviews and analyses documents related to the Partnership Schools for Liberia (PSL) pilot. The analysis focuses on three key areas: transparency and accountability, students and teachers, and scalability and sustainability.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 School vouchers and the privileges of choice
Tore Bernt Sorensen
11 July 2017Since the 1980s, the debate on school vouchers has been prominent along with the more general efforts to institute market forces, school choice, and privatisation in education sectors in many countries.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education Pearson and the neo-liberal global assault on public education
Alan Singer and Eustace Thompson
26 June 2017Pearson, the British-based mega-publisher, testing company, and Third World edu-entrepreneur, has inordinate influence over education policy around the world, yet it also has serious vulnerabilities. Corporate over-reach generates inefficacies that alienate its customer base and contributed to “blowback” campaigns against the company. This essay explores the Pearson and neo-liberal threats...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Guide to indicators for SDG 4 Quality Education
14 June 2017The education goal, SDG 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, is made up of 10 targets outlining the specific priorities and commitments on education – the Education 2030 Agenda. It includes targets on free primary and secondary education, early childhood and tertiary...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 A joint vision for secondary and higher education for all in Europe
19 May 2017The present joint action programme is proposed by the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU), the European Students’ Union (ESU), and Education International (EI) to their members and partners, in order to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 related goals, which the United Nations...
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Standards and working conditions Organising teaching: Developing the power of the profession
17 May 2017This study reports on the experience of several teacher unions as they respond to the challenges facing teachers in a range of national contexts: Chile, Kenya, New Zealand, Poland, Scotland, Turkey, and the United States of America.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education Investing in the crisis: Private participation in the education of Syrian refugees
Francine Menashy, Zeena Zakharia
14 April 2017While education in emergencies has risen as a policy priority in the mandates of international organizations (Menashy and Dryden-Peterson, 2015), the share of total overseas development assistance to education has declined sharply in recent years, with funding persistently low in conflict-affected states (UNESCO, 2015; 2016).