In this exciting debut, our host Lana dives into the heart of ecological justice with none other than Burcu Meltem Arik, expert lecturer, nature enthusiast and birdwatcher. Together, they explore [...]
In this speech, Professor Arjen Wals argues that sustainability and eco-justice belong across the whole life of a school, not just in a single subject or project. That means teaching and [...]
In this speech, Dr Mike Bottery looks at what educational leadership means in a time of growing global crises, from environmental breakdown to social and political instability. He argues that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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’ addresses the critical need to support school leadership in facilitating educational shift toward environmental sustainability [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 aims to support organizations that provide and are responsible for the CPD of school leadership, with [...]
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 [...]
Forum for Freedom in Education, 2022
Forum for Freedom in Education, 2022
Forum for Freedom in Education, 2022
Forum for Freedom in Education, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Batkhuyag B., Natsagdorj E., Dondogdulam T. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
Batkhuyag B., Natsagdorj E., Dondogdulam T. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bagdasarova N., Ivanov A. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
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 [...]
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 [...]
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring, the Network of Education Policy Centers – NEPC, the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education (2021)
Mekluž A., Veldin M., (HEAD project), 2020
Jovanovic O., Milovanovitch M., (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
Pijaca Plavšić E., 2020, Forum for Freedom in Education This publication was supported by Network of Education Policy Centers
Draguta O., Goras-Postica V. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
Gelashvili M., Machabeli G., Sakhokia N. (Integrity of education systems project) 2020
Jurko, L. (EEPN project) 2019
Brajković, S. & Jurlina, P. (AVIOR project), 2018
Jurko, L. & Želvys, R. (EEPN project) 2019
Bratović , E. Kovačić, M. (2014)
Bratović , E. Kovačić, M. (2014)
Golubeva, M. Korbar A. (2013)
Domazet, M., Dumitru D., Jurko, L. & Peterson, K (2012)
Ristić Dedić, Z. & Jokić, B. (2011)
Soldo, A.& Powell, S. (2011)
Miljević-Riđički, R. & Vizek Vidović, V. (2010)
Miljević-Riđički, R. & Vizek Vidović, V. (2010)
Kazimzade, E. & Lepisto, E. (2010)
Golubeva, M., Kazimzade, E., Nedelcu, A. & Powell, S. (2009)
Golubeva, M., Kazimzade, E., Nedelcu, A. & Powell, S (2009)
droupouts, education system
Kubán, J. & Kubánová, M. (2007)
Rutkovska, Z. & Strode, I. (2007)
Kalikova, S. & Rakhimzhanova, Z (2007)
Bregvadze, T., Goglichidze, A. & Machabeli G (2007)
Bray, M., Silova, I., Būdienė V. (2006)
Centre for Public Policy Providus (2005)
Education Policy Analysis Center at Educational Center “BILIM–Central Asia” (2005)
Center for Education Policy Slovakia (2005)
Commissioned by the Open Society Institute Almaty (2005)
Mongolian Education Alliance, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia & Open Society Institute’s Education (2005)
Kazimzade, E. & Silova, I. (2005)
