International Education Policy

About IEP

International Education Policy, like other master's programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is a one-year program. The program draws together a community of learners sharing a common interest in critically examining issues of equity cross-nationally. It is structured to provide an environment for the investigation and discussion of practical approaches to improving the quality of education available to children from all backgrounds. Students in the IEP program represent diverse areas of interest in the study of international education policy and hail from a variety of geographic regions.

The Objectives

The program emphasizes the development of analytical skills that will enable participants to evaluate policy options for improving educational opportunity and to draw lessons from comparative cross-national experiences with educational reform.

Graduates of the IEP program will be distinguished by their substantive understanding of educational systems, by their capacity to think about the relationship between educational change and social change, and by their understanding of the relationship between policy reform and school change. They will be able to use comparative and international education research to inform proposals for educational change at the national or sub-national level.

Areas of Interest and Geographic Regions

Learn about the Intensive Preparation for the Study of International Education Program (IPSIE)