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Equity and inclusion Education and training policy in the European Semester - public investment, public policy, social dialogue and privatisation patterns across Europe
9 April 2017The European Union has answered to the economic and financial crisis, adopting the Europe 2020 Strategy plan for sustainable, smart economic growth. Education, employment, fighting poverty and social exclusion are at the hearth of the Europe 2020 Strategy and the EU-policy making, coordinated through the European Semester.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Assessment of the breadth of learning opportunities in public schools in Kenya and Zambia
4 April 2017These reports are based on a partnership project with Brookings in which Education International worked with the KNUT on a secondary school survey in Kenya and with ZNUT on a primary school survey in Zambia to investigate the breadth of learning opportunities available in state schools.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Bridge vs. Reality: a study of Bridge International Academies’ for-profit schooling in Kenya
by Education International and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT)
22 December 2016Bridge International Academies (BIA) is a large and expanding business that provides for-profit private education in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and India. With support and investment coming from global edubusiness Pearson, the World Bank, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and high profile actors such as Mark Zuckerberg and the...
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Equity and inclusion Providing education to refugee children from conflict areas in the Middle East - Fast track to equal opportunities and integration
Education International Refugee Education Conference
6 December 2016Quality education is key to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It is crucial in confronting the social, economic, cultural and political challenges that are causing and resulting from the “global refugee crisis." Education is also the most effective tool to help forcibly displaced people integrate into their...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Global trends in TVET: a framework for social justice
Leesa Wheelahan, Gavin Moodie
16 November 2016This report commissioned by Education International provides a conceptual framework to understand how vocational education is positioned in many countries, and the different ways in which the relationship between vocational education and the structures of the labour market mediate the variable outcomes that vocational education graduates achieve.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Roadmap to financing education
15 November 2016In an era where investment in education is declining and myriad shortcuts are popping up, Education International presents its rights-based Roadmap to sustainable, predictable and principled education financing.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 A better bargain? Unions driving Education 2030 forward
8 November 2016Your government adopted Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in September 2015 together with all other governments in the world. It is a universal agenda for sustainable development, ending poverty and hunger, ensuring quality education and health, gender equality and...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Schooling the poor profitably: the innovations and deprivations of Bridge International Academies in Uganda
Curtis B. Riep
20 September 2016The study reveals the operations of BIA in Uganda where it sells its version of ‘education,’ or its standardised ‘Academy-in-a-Box,’ to an estimated 12,000 fee-paying students in 63 schools.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Human rights and values in education
Sneh Aurora
1 June 2016This paper was developed to provide context and background for the Education International Baltic Symposium on Human Rights and Values in Education which took place from 7 to 8 June 2016 in Riga, Latvia.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Profiting from the poor: The emergence of multinational edu-businesses in Hyderabad, India
Carol Anne Spreen
17 May 2016The report co-authored by Kamat S., Spreen C.A. and Jonnalagadda I. lays out the broad underpinnings of the corporate interests in for-profit education and how these efforts undermine public education as a fundamental human right.
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Leading the profession Value-added measurement or modelling
Tore Bernt Sorensen
13 April 2016This discussion paper reviews the policy instrument of value-added measurement or modelling (VAM) and the implications the instrument has for teaching and learning in a global context. VAM is based on the assumption that it is possible to create adequately complex statistical models that capture the essential and universal factors...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Briefing: The potential impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on education
8 February 2016This briefing note looks into the potential impacts of the TPP for the education sector based on the text released on 5 November 2015. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a comprehensive trade and investment agreement covering 40% of the global economy.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 The World Bank’s doublespeak on teachers – an analysis of 10 years of lending and advice
Clara Fontdevila, Antoni Verger
17 December 2015During the last few decades, the World Bank has become a central actor in shaping the global education policy agenda and is increasingly involved in education to the point of becoming the largest supplier of external funding to the sector. Its growing capacity to shape policy goes far beyond its...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education Corporatised education in the Philippines: Pearson, Ayala Corporation and the emergence of Affordable Private Education Centers (APEC)
Curtis B. Riep
30 November 2015This paper examines how, why, and with what consequences, corporate-led privatisations in Philippine education are taking shape, through an analysis of Affordable Private Education Centers (APEC).
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Teachers assessing Education for All - perspectives from the classroom
13 June 2015This report collates the outcomes of a global effort to engage teachers and education support personnel in a critical reflection on the EFA movement and goals. It shares the experiences and perspectives of a diverse group of professionals, working in very different contexts around the world, who share one common...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Pearson and PALF: The mutating giant
Dr. Carolina Junemann, Stephen Ball
10 June 2015In their latest work, renowned researchers Carolina Junemann and Stephen J. Ball present a compelling read for anyone concerned about the right of every child to a free quality public education. They reveal that there is an ever-growing concern associated with the continual rise of the commercialisation and privatisation in...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Creating a supportive working environment in European higher education
Marie Clarke
30 April 2015Creating a positive working environment is key to the future success of higher education across Europe. Self-direction and autonomy are positive influences in the work context. Those who feel supported at work will enjoy their experience, like their jobs and have high levels of job satisfaction. The capacity to form...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 The Bologna Process under threat
29 April 2015In this study, academics across nine countries in Europe identified a number of key issues that impacted upon their working environment. These included the impact of decreased funding; the difficulties experienced in forming supportive relationships; negative experiences of academic life in the initial years; a deterioration in working conditions; the...