A guest post by Francisco Mango, alumnus of last year’s 2021-22 MPP cohort Research indicates that subnational actors may play a key role in the fight against the climate crisis Climate change is perhaps the most critical threat to human development. Despite this, multilateral agreements on carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – the most likely explanation of climate change – have led to frustrating outcomes. The repeated failures of governments to ful...
In increasingly diverse societies, teaching must recognise the importance of affirming students’ cultural backgrounds in all aspects of learning. Shutterstock A joint post by Prof Louis Volante, Dr Christopher DeLuca, and Prof Don A. Klinger Classrooms in many parts of the world are increasingly diverse. International migration patterns have significantly changed the cultural make-up of many industrialised societies and, by extension, their school-aged populations. Such changes are particularl...
The ‘Programme for International Student Assessment’ (PISA) is an international measure of student achievement carried out every three years, weighing the performance of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics, and science literacy in over 70 countries and economies worldwide. By examining PISA’s role in education governance and policy discourse, this new book, edited by Prof. Louis Volante, with a foreword by Prof. Jo Ritzen, provides an in-depth analysis of the educational change process – within...
Dr. Özge Bilgili, Theme Leader for Integration, Social Cohesion and Transnationalism Research, has been selected for the OECD’s Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship for 2017. During the project period at the Directorate for Education and Skills in Paris, she will focus on migrant children’s educational achievement and socio-cultural integration. Specifically, she will examine the questions of migration by comparing first and second generation immigrant students with their non-immigrant peers in the PI...