If national teacher policies are not comprehensive, practical and inclusive of teachers, they can undermine the very workers they aim to help, a global education policy expert argues.
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The last time the country’s courts authorised such harsh police techniques as sleep deprivation and starvation was during the dictatorship.
Africa’s universities supposedly became more independent after the early 1990s. But it appears they haven’t achieved much more than cosmetic autonomy from political interference.
More and more children are attending primary school in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. But there are worryingly large gaps in their learning.
Social media is being actively used in the public debate on Common Core, with an unprecedented 35,000 to 40,000 tweets each month.
The complex web of teacher trade unionism in the UK is about to become even more convoluted and competitive. One of the headteacher unions, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), has announced…
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Director of Research and Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Education and Director of Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of Educational Administration, Penn State
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Research Fellow, World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), United Nations University
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Programme Officer for Research (Higher Education), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
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Professor, Universidade Federal de Goias
