Maren Elfert, Senior Lecturer, International Education, Kings College London, and Christian Ydesen, Professor, Education Research and Internationalization, Aalborg University, have written Global Governance of Education: the historical and contemporary entanglements of UNESCO, OECD and the World Bank. It is will published in October 2023 by Springer. One chapter is available as open access.
The COVID-19 Pandemic is already generating proposals for government-led initiatives for a post-crisis recovery. Josef Konvitz, CHAIR of PASCAL, has written a note that looks at the question through the lens of infrastructure investment, drawing on the lessons of the post-2008 recovery, and drawing attention to the importance of education for the future.
PASCAL subscribers are invited to contribute to a new initiative being coordinated by the Form@re Journal at the University of Florence in Italy concerning post-COVID-19 recovery. In section 6 below you will read about the contexts for focus, and in sections 7 and 8, how you can play a role.
The Commonwealth Foundation is one of the Commonwealth's three intergovernmental agencies alongside the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Commonwealth of Learning. The role of the incoming Director-General - currently Anne Therese Gallagher AO - ensures she is also the Commonwealth's Ambassador for Civil Society.
Governing In and Against Austerity, a report edited by Jonathan S. Davies at De Montfort University, Leicester, highlights the responses in 8 cities to the impact of the Crisis of 2008. The cities are Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Dublin, Leicester, Greater Dandenong Melbourne, Montreal and Nantes.
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