KIX EAP Podcast #15: Upholding research and improving education quality in Bhutan, with Karma Utha

This episode of the KIX EAP Podcast, hosted by Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor, Chapman University (USA), features Dr. Karma Utha, Assistant Professor in Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan. In the podcast, Dr. Utha talks about upholding research that examines public education policies and about improving the quality of education in Bhutan.

A Methodological Review for the Data Must Speak Positive Deviance Research

In the most challenging educational contexts, some schools outperform others despite similar contexts and levels of resources. How do these schools achieve improved outcomes? Data Must Speak (DMS), a global initiative to address evidence gaps to mitigate the learning crisis, provides evidence on what works, why, and how to scale grassroots solutions. This methodological review presents key definitions, concepts, and methodologies of approaches (e.g.

GPE KIX EAP Hub Midterm Publication (2020-2022)

This brochure, on the first two years of the KIX Initiative in the Europe – Asia – Pacific region, illustrates how the KIX EAP hub promotes the core mission of KIX: promoting the use of research evidence for more effective policy and planning. KIX’s approach to this goal has been unique: surfacing, amplifying, and disseminating knowledge from the Global South.

WHERE KIX WORKS

KIX brings together 89 low- and middle-income countries that are partners of the Global Partnership for Education to identify common policy challenges and facilitate knowledge sharing and evidence building. KIX currently funds 77 projects across these 89 countries. Click through the countries in the map to learn about the work that is being done in each country.

 
 

WHAT KIX DOES

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KIX is designed to be shaped by the demand from national education systems and respond to their principal policy and programming challenges. KIX both funds research and facilitates knowledge sharing among country stakeholders to enhance their education systems using relevant evidence and actionable research.

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