SIRIUS Watch 2026 Report
The SIRIUS Watch 2026 report has been published, offering important insights into how European education systems support migrant and refugee learners. Titled “Bridging the Gap: Strengthening [...]
edufocus: Transforming school cultures for ecojustice
This article by Emőke Takács explores how education can drive a more sustainable and just future through the “Me–We–All” approach. It highlights the need to move beyond individualistic thinking [...]
EDUFOCUS: Leading for Inclusion: Lessons from Schools Across Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
This article by Jasna Kovačević examines what it means to lead for inclusion in schools across Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, arguing that inclusive leadership is not [...]
EcoJustice Glossary: A Key Resource for School Leaders Building Sustainable & Fair School Communities
The EcoJustice Glossary, published by the Network of Education Policy Centers (NEPC) in 2025, is a powerful resource designed to support school leaders and educators in creating school cultures [...]
Lead for EcoJustice – school leaders’ key competences
‘Lead for EcoJustice – school leaders’ key competences’ addresses the critical need to support school leadership in facilitating educational shift toward environmental sustainability [...]
edufocus: Learning from and with nature
edufocus: Learning from and with nature In this Edufocus article, Burcu Meltem Arik, a passionate birdwatcher working with the Education Reform Initiative in Turkey as part of the Educational [...]
edufocus: Ethics of Sustainability and Global Environmental Justice
This article is the second installment in the edufocus series, NEPC’s multimedia platform for educational content. Written by our long-term friend and colleague, Mladen Domazet of the [...]
edufocus: Reconstructing Sustainability and Inclusion in Environmental Education
NEPC presents the first article in the edufocus series, a dynamic educational content platform providing resources on various current topics in education. This first article was written by our [...]
The policy road maps for Croatia and North Macedonia
The policy road maps for Croatia and North Macedonia provide policy recommendations and steps that would empower school principals to create an inclusive school culture. A policy papers are [...]
The Curriculum Framework: Empowering School Leaders For Developing Inclusive School Cultures
The Curriculum Framework: Empowering School Leaders For Developing Inclusive School Cultures aims to support organizations that provide and are responsible for the CPD of school leadership, with [...]
EMBRACING MULTILINGUALISM IN SCHOOLS
The importance of a supportive environment that respects linguistic diversity is an integral part of international policy documents advocating for inclusion, equity, and quality education for [...]
Students’ participation START THE CHANGE PROJECT – SYNTHESIS REPORT
Forum for Freedom in Education, 2022
Empowering Students’ Participation – Policy Road Map Croatia
Forum for Freedom in Education, 2022
Empowering Students’ Participation – Policy Road Map Portugal
Forum for Freedom in Education, 2022
Empowering Students’ Participation – Policy Road Map North Macedonia
Forum for Freedom in Education, 2022
EDUFOCUS VIDEO- Policies for supporting low SES students in education – ARISE Comparative report (May 2022)
In this episode of Edu Focus, our guest is Ivana Cenerić from the Centre for Education Policy, who is one of the authors of a comparative report published as part of the ARISE project. This [...]
Edufocus video – The right to participate: How to achieve meaningful participation of children (June 2022)
The lecture The right to participate: How to achieve meaningful participation of children held by Ivana Borić, Ph. D., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences was [...]
Heading for Headship – Contrasting School Leadership Training in the Netherlands and Slovenia
In the Erasmus+ project HEAD: Empowering school principals for inclusive school culture, the Netherlands School Leadership academy NSO-CNA and the National School of Leadership in Education of [...]
Private education in Western Balkans and Turkey: Features, Opportunities, Risks
This background report provides a cross-country overview of issues pertaining to non-state education provision and the involvement of private actors in public education in a selection of [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – Social policies that support schools to better address the socioeconomic disadvantages (April 2022)
Social policies that support schools to better address the socioeconomic disadvantages (April 2022) The lecture ‘Social policies that support schools to better address the socioeconomic [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – School admissions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan (March 2022)
Introducing the paper “Mapping of policies, practices, and integrity in school admissions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan”. The guest is Mihaylo Milovanovitch from Centar for [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – Contact Grabber: Keep on Studying (February 2022)
PRAXIS, our ESTONIAN member is implementing the emergency fund “Contact Grabber: Keep on Studying”. This project is one of the 6 initiatives that NEPC supported during the pandemic through a [...]
Mapping of policies, practices, and integrity in school admissions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan
The paper aims to identify areas of tentative risk to the integrity and equality of access to school education. This issues paper provides an overview of results from an initial scan of primary [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – The Voice of Children: Creating space and starting the change (January 2022)
In the Edu Focus #8 focus is on students’ participation and students’ voice. Višnja Pavlović, Forum for Freedom in Education, one of the authors of the manual for adults ‘The Voice of Children: [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – Inclusive School Policies (November 2021)
How much autonomy do schools have when we talk about school policies? Is there space for improvement even when we think the rules have already been set? Learn how school policies can be adapted [...]
Schools Response to Public Health Crisis in Serbia, Kazakhstan and Romania
Comparative report, July 2021 The 2020 global public health crisis, declared as a pandemic in early March by the World Health Organization, has caused considerable changes in human life, society [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – How do systems prepare and support teachers to teach all students? (October 2021)
How do systems prepare and support teachers to teach all students? (October 2021) One of the key recommendation of the 2020 GEM Report – Inclusion and education is that all teachers should be [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – Social, Emotional and Intercultural Education: From Policy to Practice (September 2021)
Presentation of the mapping study Policies of Social, Emotional and Intercultural Education in Six Countries (Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The Republic of Moldova, Russia and [...]
Integrity violations and parental contributions in Mongolia – Mongolian language version
Batkhuyag B., Natsagdorj E., Dondogdulam T. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
Integrity violations and parental contributions in Mongolia
Batkhuyag B., Natsagdorj E., Dondogdulam T. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – Storytelling to uncover integrity violations in education (July 2021)
NEPC and Center for Applied Policy and Integrity conducted a project that investigated integrity violations in education. Through storytelling it uncovered behaviors hardly identifiable with a [...]
РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ПО ПРОЕКТУ «РЕАКЦИЯ ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ КАЗАХСТАНА НА ТРУДНОСТИ В СВЯЗИ С ПАНД – RESEARCH ON SCHOOLS RESPONSE TO PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS IN KAZAKHSTAN (Russian version)
Community Educational Foundation “School for All”, 2021 ( in the frame of the project Research on Schools Response to Public Health Crisis in Serbia, Kazakhstan and Romania coordinated by NEPC [...]
Schools Response to Public Health Crisis in Kazakhstan
Community Educational Foundation “School for All”, 2021 ( in the frame of the project Research on Schools Response to Public Health Crisis in Serbia, Kazakhstan and Romania coordinated by NEPC [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – School leadership training in Netherlands and Slovenia as inspiring practices (June 2021)
In this Edu Focus episode, within the frame of the project “Empowering school principals for inclusive school culture” led by NEPC, National School of Leadership in Education of Slovenia (Šola za [...]
The case of Kyrgyzstan: Parental Contributions and Integrity Violations within Public Schools’ System
Bagdasarova N., Ivanov A. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – Digital tools supporting teaching and collaborative learning in digitalization (May 2021)
How do technologies transform pedagogy? How do they hinder or support collaborative learning and collaborative school leadership? To answer these questions, in the second Edu Focus issue, we [...]
EDUFOCUS VIDEO – Teaching in time of COVID: lockdown practices and online “paideia” (April 2021)
The episode presents the online version of PAIDEIA Debate Clubs for teachers and professional development program organized by NEPC member Educational Center PRO DIDACTICA, and the magazine [...]
2021 Global Education Monitoring Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Report – Inclusion and education: All means all
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring, the Network of Education Policy Centers – NEPC, the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (2021)
Principals’ needs for professional development in the field of creating an inclusive school culture – Report for Croatia and Republic of North Macedonia
Mekluž A., Veldin M., (HEAD project), 2020
Integrity in the use of human and financial resources in education – A cross-country synthesis of findings from locally-led INTES assessments in Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Mongolia
Jovanovic O., Milovanovitch M., (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
Guide to happy return to schools
Pijaca Plavšić E., 2020, Forum for Freedom in Education This publication was supported by Network of Education Policy Centers
Integrity violations in the employment and promotion of teachers in the Republic of Moldova – An INTES Assessment
Draguta O., Goras-Postica V. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
Recruitment of schoolteachers in Georgia: an integrity assessment
Gelashvili M., Machabeli G., Sakhokia N. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
State of Affairs on Teacher’s and School Leader’s profession in EU
Jurko, L. (EEPN project) 2019
AVIOR STUDY VISIT – THESSALONIKI REPORT
Brajković, S. & Jurlina, P. (AVIOR project), 2018
Desk research report on Good Practices on Policy Advice and Implementation
Jurko, L. & Želvys, R. (EEPN project) 2019
Percepcija sitne korupcije i neetičnoga ponašanja u hrvatskim srednjim školama
Bratović , E. Kovačić, M. (2014)
The Perception of Petty Corruption and Unethical Behaviour in Secondary Schools in Croatia
Bratović , E. Kovačić, M. (2014)
Living Together, Learning Together – Minority Education Issues in Vukovar – Srijem and Istria County
Golubeva, M. Korbar A. (2013)
Civil rights and obligations are connected to the environmental issues in the curriculum? A comparative analysis of the ESD in 9 European countries
Domazet, M., Dumitru D., Jurko, L. & Peterson, K (2012)
Razvoj modela regulacije pojave privatnih instrukcija u Republici Hrvatskoj
Ristić Dedić, Z. & Jokić, B. (2011)
The Phenomenon of Private tutoring – Possible Solutions: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Soldo, A.& Powell, S. (2011)
Nacionalno istraživanje o roditeljima u zemljama Jugoistočne Europe: Uključenost roditelja u život škole: Kratki izvještaj i preporuke za Hrvatsku
Miljević-Riđički, R. & Vizek Vidović, V. (2010)
Parental Involvement in the Life of Schools: Policy brief
Miljević-Riđički, R. & Vizek Vidović, V. (2010)
Drawing the Line: Parental Informal Payments for Education across Eurasia
Kazimzade, E. & Lepisto, E. (2010)
Divided Education, Divided Citizens? Citizenship-related Attitudes in Segregated Schools in Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia and Romania
Golubeva, M., Kazimzade, E., Nedelcu, A. & Powell, S. (2009)
Divided Education, Divided Citizens? A comparative study of civil enculturation in separate schools
Golubeva, M., Kazimzade, E., Nedelcu, A. & Powell, S (2009)
Tajikistan School Dropouts: Challenges and Ways of Addressing Them
droupouts, education system
Parental Informal Payments in Education Study: Slovakia
Kubán, J. & Kubánová, M. (2007)
Hiding in the Twilight: Parental Contributions to Public Schools in Latvia
Rutkovska, Z. & Strode, I. (2007)
Kazakhstan: Parental informal payments for education
Kalikova, S. & Rakhimzhanova, Z (2007)
Georgia: Parental Informal Payments in Schools
Bregvadze, T., Goglichidze, A. & Machabeli G (2007)
Education in a Hidden Marketplace: Monitoring of Private Tutoring
Bray, M., Silova, I., Būdienė V. (2006)
Factors that Hinder the Completion of Compulsory Education: The Latvian Experience
Centre for Public Policy Providus (2005)
Children in School but Out of Schooling: Kazakhstan case
Education Policy Analysis Center at Educational Center “BILIM–Central Asia” (2005)
School dropouts – reasons and consequences: Monitoring of the OSI related Centers for Education Policy
Center for Education Policy Slovakia (2005)
SURVEY REPORT: Problems of Non-Attendance and Dropping-out of School Among 5-9 Grade Students of Secondary Schools of General Education in the Republic of Kazakhstan
Commissioned by the Open Society Institute Almaty (2005)
Private Tutoring in Mongolia
Mongolian Education Alliance, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia & Open Society Institute’s Education (2005)
The Private Tutoring Epidemic: When Bad Teachers become Great Tutors
Kazimzade, E. & Silova, I. (2005)
