Innovative financing increases the amount of funding to education and allows for more efficient and equitable financing. Through the GPE Multiplier, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has mobilized US$4.7 billion in cofinancing that would not have been available otherwise for education. This factsheet presents how GPE innovative financing…

This article historicises the global education policy (GEP) field's developmentalism and the psychological and political inequalities that it naturalises. Building upon de- and postcolonial theory and science and technology studies, it illustrates how GEP studies tend to overlook the field's developmentalist premises, which naturalise the norms…

Through the concept of ritual governance, this paper argues that it is impossible to separate the secular from the religio-spiritual, cosmological, or onto-epistemic aspect of policy. An inescapable feature of social science and the humanities, including in the study of policy and bureaucracy, pertains to those assumptions at the most basic level…

The Earth Charter declaration is recognized by UNESCO as an instrument to enhance sustainable development, specifically the UNSDGs, as the current global action framework. "Education for Sustainable Futures" highlights the immense potential that the recognition and application of the Earth Charter could have for global education efforts.…

While COVID-19 has underlined many global interdependencies, it has also made clear the ways in which these globalised connections are structured by profound inequalities. Teaching in this context has been deeply challenging for many educators around the world. For related reasons, though, the pandemic has also created new provocations for global…

Numerous countries have implemented excellence initiatives designed to establish world-class universities, boost research productivity, build up staff capacity, and thereby reform doctoral education systems as part of this agenda. To date, the relationship between excellence-driven initiatives and leading universities' doctoral education…

As a global language, English plays a dominant role in various fields such as international business, politics, diplomacy, and education. Even so, the ideology of native-speakerism remains prevalent in some ELT communities, especially in expandingcircle countries where native-speakers are treated as role models. To respond to calls for change in…

Public Administration (PA) as an academic discipline has traditionally been anchored in the principles of state-centric governance, national implementation policies, and the management of domestic public affairs. However, the rise of global and transnational governance has significantly reshaped the context in which public administrators operate.…

Background: The development of students' digital skills is essential to access the labour market and interact with society, being especially important in disadvantaged socioeconomic contexts affected by the digital divide. Objectives: The investigation has two objectives. On the one hand, to study the integration of ICT in disadvantaged contexts…

Enabled by market-oriented policies implemented in the early 1990s, a nation-wide for-profit education industry has emerged and flourished in Sweden. As a more recent expansion strategy, Swedish school companies have begun exporting their school and early childhood education and care services internationally. In this article, three such companies…

The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) is a crucial reference framework for informing teaching, learning and assessment that has achieved worldwide prominence in language education. However, there have been concerns raised regarding the breadth of its influence across different domains and countries. Using a bibliometric approach, a…

The article provides practical tips on using Flipgrid in elementary classrooms. The sociocultural approach to learning leverages global collaboration and inclusivity to honor student voices. Authentic instructional activities and cultural literacy practices are aligned with Literacy Common Core standards to promote children's literacy development.

Under the pressure of globalisation, both China and Europe have active strategies to internationalise their higher education systems. This paper explores the cultural and institutional constraints of these strategies in both territories, analysing their impact on the cooperation and competition among higher education institutions. The article…

To date, understanding and empirical investigation of the internationalisation processes of university spin-outs (USOs) have been limited. Few studies have explored the role of the specific characteristics of their core technology, in particular their innovativeness, as a determinant of their early internationalisation. This is also an issue which…

Universities focus on digital transformation strategy to stay competitive in global education, staying competitive is taking on quite a different meaning in the 21st century -- it includes the long-term implications of COVID-19 -- the interaction of politics and economics, the emergence of China as a superpower, the end of neoliberalism, the…