Topics • FreshEd

School choice, shadow education, edtech, and the slow remaking of education into a market.

Universities as engines of mobility and sites of inequality, marketisation, and contested knowledge.

How policy ideas travel, get borrowed, get reformed, and get resisted across very different contexts.

Teacher education, labour conditions, and what good teaching looks like beyond dominant Western models.

Curricula, degrowth, indigenous ecological knowledge, and youth movements demanding climate justice.

Colonial histories in education systems, and the ongoing work of decolonising curriculum and knowledge.

The field's own history, theory, and persistent hierarchies over whose knowledge counts.

FreshEd turns the lens on its own practice — scholarly podcasting, research methods, and publishing.

UNESCO, the World Bank, the OECD, and how education gets governed beyond the nation-state.

Refugee education, humanitarian response, and rebuilding education in post-conflict societies.