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The right to education

The UNESCO Database on the Right to Education provides detailed information on the ratification of normative instruments and monitoring status of the right to education including national reports; constitutional and legal frameworks as well as education policies of the selected country.

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The UNESCO-GEM Report World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) highlights the powerful influence of circumstances, such as wealth, gender, ethnicity and location, over which people have little control but which play an important role in shaping their opportunities for education and life. It draws attention to unacceptable levels of education inequality across countries and between groups within countries.

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Reports and academic works

House of Commons International Development Committee. (2017). DFID’s work on education: Leaving no one behind? First Report of Session 2017–19.

Verger, A., Fontdevila, C. & Zancajo, A. (2016). The Privatization of Education. A Political Economy of Global Education Reform. Teachers College Press.

Alternative Report to the CESCR: The UK’s Support of the Growth of Private Education Through its Development Aid: Questioning its Responsibilities as Regards its Human Rights Extraterritorial Obligations (Update), 2016

Alternative Report to the CESCR: The UK’s support of the growth of private education through its development aid: questioning its responsibilities as regards its human rights extraterritorial obligations, 2015.

Curtis, M. (2015). DFID’s controversial support for private education. Curtis Research.

Bourgonje, P. (2010). Education for refugee and asylum seeking children in OECD countries: Case studies from Australia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Education International: Brussels, Belgium.

Reports and academic works