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Learning Difficulties: The 2024 Presidential Election and the Fate of Indonesia’s Education System
A crisis in education is impairing Indonesia’s aspirations for economic development. But all three candidates are offering more of the same.
WEBINAR: Making Southeast Asia’s education systems work
Indonesia, Philippines and Myanmar have widened access to education in recent decades, but there has been little improvement in learning outcomes. Why this is the case?
Perceptions of bilateral tensions between China and Australia/Aotearoa New Zealand in educational settings
New research on bi-lateral tensions with China and the work of Chinese language educators.
INTRODUCTION: The politics of social policy in Asia
Asia’s social welfare systems remain underdeveloped and skewed in favour of particular groups, despite rising inequality, ageing populations, labour precarity and rural-urban migration.
Rethinking World Bank Influence: Governance Reforms and the Ritual Aid Dance in Indonesia by D. Brent Edwards Jr
An important contribution to our understanding of the Bank’s role in the politics of governance reform in the Global South, especially in education.