Yulia Nesterova

Yulia Nesterova

Yulia Nesterova is Lecturer in International and Comparative Education at the University of Glasgow. Yulia’s research interests centre around inequalities and injustices in education and partnerships and community/youth engagement for quality education and learning, peace and justice. She is working on a large project investigating spatial inequalities in education in 14 cities in seven countries across Africa and Asia and a project with UNESCO IIEP exploring how cities in the global south work towards achieving SDG4. Yulia is also leading a project on community-based peacebuilding and co-leading a project on engaging youth in peace processes. Prior to joining Glasgow, Yulia worked with UNESCO. She has conducted research in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific.

Global-Local (Dis)Connections in Education Partnerships

Women meeting each other at a conference
"Public-private partnerships", "low fee private schools", "North-South" and "South-South" collaborations, "family and community engagement", "best practices", and "policy transfer" have now become buzzwords in education and development. As a community, we hope that these approaches will help us establish equitable and inclusive education systems for all students (thus meeting the goals and targets of Sustainable Development Goal 4 and the Education for All agenda). For some, the hope is that they will help increase “national competitiveness” and “human capital”, two other buzz words in use.