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UNESCO Chair Series in Comparative Education Policy with Batjargal Batkhuyag

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Lecture with Batjargal Batkhuyag

Date: Monday 11 November 2024

Time: 12.30pm to 2pm CET

Location: S5, Maison de la Paix & Online (Zoom)

Interpretation in Arabic, Mongolian and Russian will be available for online participants

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Open Café with Batjargal Batkhuyag

Date: Tuesday 12 November 2024

Time: 10am to 11am CET

Location: The Fab, Maison de la Paix

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UNESCO Chair Series in Comparative Education Policy

With just a few years left to shape a new international education agenda, the UNESCO Chair series in Comparative Education Policy invites scholars, decision-makers, and public intellectuals from the Global South to share their analyses of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and broader international agendas. There is an emerging body of literature in political science, international relations, and comparative policy studies on the promissory legitimacy of global actors (Beckert, 2020; Berten & Kranke, 2022; Robertson & Beech, 2023). How do international and national actors navigate uncertain futures, shape national developments towards their pre-defined future, or correct wrong projections that have negatively impacted present policy decisions? Perhaps more than any other public sector, education is expected to prepare individuals for the future. Even international organizations have made it their project to specify that future in terms of 21st century skills (OECD) or human capital needed for economic productivity (World Bank), education ultimately suffers from a technology deficit. The deficit becomes glaring If we conceive of technology as a device that connects inputs with outcomes because educating subjects in the present (input) for a predefined, internationally agreed upon future (outcomes) is in and of itself counterintuitive. Therefore, education lends itself for reflecting on the promissory legitimacy of international organizations. These are only a few questions that this new area of research is able to address and thereby our understanding of tools of global governance.

This series, organized by the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Education Policy and NORRAG, will navigate the tensions and inequalities inherent in the global aid architecture and discuss the gap between national priorities and global scripts in international development.

Batjargal Batkhuyag works as an executive director of the Mongolian Education Alliance (MEA), one of the leading NGOs in Mongolia dedicated to improving the quality of education for all children and promoting youth participation. He was previously Lecturer at Mongolia’s University of the Humanities working with student-teachers. His interests lie in promoting and advocating for access, equity and quality education with emphasis on the most marginalised groups. He’s joined a number of international and comparative research studies and initiatives. He’s contributed to 2017/18, 2019, 2020 and 2021 Global Education Monitoring Reports, co-authoring country background papers or compiling country profiles.

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