Thematic Research Report series

Thematic Research Reports

241 complete publications covering the years 2005 to 2026.

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241 publications in this series

ICEQC-R-2014-12December 6, 2014

Thematic Research Report

Education for Sustainable Development: From Programme Activity to System Expectation

A global standards-interpretive study of permanence, reach, institutional responsibility and educational substance

At the completion of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, the principal standards question is no longer whether a system can exhibit relevant projects. It is whether the ordinary rules, institutions and resources of education consistently carry the expectation. A programme can demonstrate an approach, convene expertise or reach a selected population; it cannot by itself establish that learners across levels and locations receive a sustained educational opportunity. The transition to system expectation therefore requires an account of authority, reach, curricular and institutional substance, professional capacity, finance, evidence and correction.

Research category: Standards Interpretation
Report archetype: Standards Interpretive Study
Geographic scope: Global

ICEQC-R-2014-03March 20, 2014

Thematic Research Report

Defining Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education for Operational Use

A global standards-interpretive study of access, participation, learning, conditions and public responsibility

Comparative interpretation of executive summary depends upon a rising enrolment rate can coexist with persistent exclusion in a remote district, a poor household group or a population displaced by conflict or disaster. The evidence must therefore clarify how gender parity at national level can coexist with disadvantage for poor rural girls and poor urban boys. A stable completion rate may hide increasing delay, repetition or withdrawal among groups whose educational records and population denominators are weakest. The evidentiary task is therefore not simply to publish more categories. It is to construct distributions whose populations, definitions, uncertainty and limits permit fair public judgement. National education averages describe the centre of a distribution while frequently concealing the conditions of learners farthest from secured educational opportunity.

Research category: Standards Interpretation
Report archetype: Standards Interpretive Study
Geographic scope: Global