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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 The privatisation of education in Argentina
by Myriam Feldfeber, Adriana Puiggrós, Susan Robertson and Miguel Duhalde
25 September 2018The research provides an overview of the processes driving the privatisation of education and their impact on quality and equity in Argentina’s public education system. The research project is a joint endeavour between a team of academics and researchers including Argentinian researchers Myriam Feldfeber and Adriana Puiggros and Cambridge University...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East: is it a game changer?
Keith Lewin
20 September 2018The Education Commission and The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment have plans to establish a $1 billion Education Outcomes Fund for Africa and the Middle East (EOF), which they claim will be a ‘game changing initiative to drive results in education’. The financing mechanism will pool grants to commission...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 Quality and equalities: a comparative study of public and low-cost private schools in Lagos
Elaine Unterhalter
16 May 2018One of the greatest challenges facing Nigeria is rebuilding high-quality, free public education for all. State promises on this date back to the 1973 National Pledge and have been repeated in policies and declarations. However, repeated failures to fulfil these promises has led to private sector intervention, and the commercialisation...
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Equity and inclusion Education: Hope for newcomers in Europe
Nihad Bunar
28 February 2018The aim of this volume is to bring together experiences from four European countries, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden, on how they have organised the reception of newly-arrived children in their schools, which challenges they face, what are the opportunities, where the support comes from and it has failed to...
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Research From research to advocacy: A guide to planning, conducting and disseminating research
23 January 2018This toolkit was produced by Education International to support education unions in developing their research activity.
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Fighting the commercialisation of education Commercialisation in public schooling - An Australian study
Bob Lingard, Sam Sellar, Anna Hogan, Greg Thompson
20 December 2017The Commercialisation in Public Schooling project explores the extent and character of commercialisation in Australian public schooling. The study also documents the structural conditions, as well as political values, which enable this.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 What educators need to know about global trade deals
Susan Robertson
14 December 2017The EI study What Educators Need to Know About Global Trade Deals explores the economic, political and social conditions, development agendas, combinations of actors and regulatory instruments, which together have challenged the idea of, and conditions for, education as a public service and a human right by locking in a...
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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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Fighting the commercialisation of education 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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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 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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Equity and inclusion 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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Future of work in 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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Fighting the commercialisation of education 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.