Highlighting the Ta’theer Leadership Development Program in Lebanon
Qatar Foundation’s WISE ALL-IN Case Studies Given that school leadership is one of the most important influences on student learning, WISE/ALL-IN’s 2025 strategy, is to focus its research, program support, and advocacy toward supporting school leader development in under-served global contexts. As part of this work, in 2019 WISE ALL-IN supported field-based case studies of school […]
Managing Innovation Environments and Ecosystems Capacity-Building Initiatives in Latin America
In 2016, the International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP) adopted the concept of “Areas of Innovation” as places that bring together infrastructural, technological, institutional and cultural facilities that attract entrepreneurially-minded people who have new ideas and capital and are focused on innovation and enhancing the development of the knowledge society. This […]
Special Edition E-Book: Education Disrupted, Education Reimagined
It is no longer news that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about massive disruption to the education ecosystem—to the learners, teachers, school leaders, parents, and policymakers alike. The changes have been so pervasive, fast-moving, and frequent that one could blink and miss them. After all, there have only been few instances in human history when […]
Do Children need to go ‘Back to School’?
Wherever we look for the origin of schools, it is usually defined by ‘studying’ subjects and being separate from the everyday reality of work and personal life. Nothing could be more wrong. Right now, we are falling short of providing education for all, including seeing some of the biggest decline in well-being, and the current rapid changes […]
Secondary Education Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a very promising region with strong economic potential and millions of young men and women who can make remarkable contributions to the economies of their countries if provided with quality education. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Education for All (EFA) movement have […]
WISE Global Education Barometer – Youth Perceptions on their Education and their Future
On the occasion of the International Day of Education, WISE has released an extensive study on the views of young people. Conducted by Ipsos, the survey was undertaken in 20 countries across the globe, in order to understand how the youth perceive their education and how prepared and confident they feel in their future. These […]
Evaluating the Impact of Global Citizenship Education on Young People’s Attitudes Towards Equality, Diversity and Tolerance
This research aims to address questions around the implementation, measurement, and success of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) as a response to the global challenges of the twenty-first century. GCE aims to foster peaceful, inclusive, tolerant, sustainable, and socially just societies; yet despite its centrality in international policy discourse and academic research, the impact of GCE […]
The Pursuit of Institutional Excellence: Case studies from Qatar
Universities around the world compete for talented faculty and researchers, for promising students, and for resources and research funding. One element in that competition is where institutions appear in the various university rankings. For around two decades, university ranking schemes have claimed to be relatively objective measures of institutional quality that can help faculty, prospective […]
Educational Leadership: A Multilevel Distributed Perspective
Educational leadership research has long highlighted the roles and functions of school principals. More recently, research has investigated leadership activity and impact at different levels in and across schools – from classrooms to central agencies. At the same time, there is widespread agreement that the multiple contexts within which schools operate play a significant role […]
Global Competition for Talent: A Comparative Analysis of National Strategies for Attracting International Students
As the uncertainty and disruption of geo-political shift have become hallmarks of our age, the ancient urge to pursue one’s higher education in distant lands is shaped by a raft of new pressures that often have little to do with education. Growing numbers of mobile students are taking advantage of new choices, but also encounter […]