Global Governance & International Organisations

Across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, education has become a site of global governance — shaped not only by national governments but by international organisations, donors, and transnational networks that set agendas, fund programmes, and measure outcomes. UNESCO, the World Bank, the OECD, and UNICEF all play roles in defining what counts as a good education system and how progress toward it should be tracked. FreshEd has spoken with the researchers and practitioners who study — and sometimes work inside — these institutions, examining how global targets like the SDGs are set, contested, and implemented, and what it means for education to be governed at a scale beyond the nation-state.