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Open government empowers students, from Portugal to Peru
New computers, recreational equipment, a school garden, or recycling equipment? In Portugal, students are having their say. For six years now, the Ministry of Education has hosted an open budgeting initiative – Orçamento Participativo das Escolas, or OPEscolas – reaching some 200,000 young people in 90% of the country’s public schools.
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Open government in education : Open budgeting: participatory school budgets in Portugal
This case study focuses on the participatory school budgets (PSB) implemented since 2017at the initiative of the Portuguese Ministry of Education.
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Disquiet over FG’s planned N999m daily feeding of school children
Nigeria
Press
- New Telegraph
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University banned from recruiting students in wake of scam
Uganda, Taiwan China
Press
Taiwan News - University World News
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Questions about unaccounted funds for skills development
South Africa
Press
Edwin Naidu - University World News
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What we do
Fighting corrupt practices in the education sector enables governments to strengthen their educational systems: a precondition for the attainment of SDG4.
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Open budgeting: an illustrative form of open government
Paris, IIEP-UNESCO, 2021
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