- SDG 04 - Quality Education

We are calling for articles to our new Collection on Quality Education, in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goal: SDG 4. This collection creates a cross-disciplinary space for researchers and stakeholders working across various disciplines to address this significant global issue. We bring together scholarship and policy that aims to contribute to the provision of quality education for a sustainable future.

The aim of SDG4 is to provide equal access to affordable vocational training, eliminate gender and wealth disparities, and achieve universal access to quality higher education. Education helps to reduce inequalities and to reach gender equality. It also empowers people everywhere to live more healthy and sustainable lives. Education is also crucial to fostering tolerance between people and contributes to more peaceful societies.Education is the key that will allow many other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved. When people are able to get quality education they can break from the cycle of poverty.

We are welcoming a range of perspectives including theoretical, methodological, quantitative and qualitative studies. Original Research and Review Papers are accepted. We are specifically interested in research that advances understanding on:

- By 2030, ensuring that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4 effective learning outcomes

- The provision of all girls and boys access to quality early childhood development, care and preprimary education so that they are ready for primary education

- Ensuring equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university

- Substantially increasing the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship

- By 2030, eliminating gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations

- Ensuring that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

- Enabling all learners to acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development - Building and upgrading education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all

- The substantial expansion globally of the number of scholarships available to developing countries for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific

- By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing states

Submission Procedure:

Submission is possible to one of the participating journals on the right, please select TC: SDG4 - Quality Education in the electronic submission portal. Accepted articles will be published in the respective journal, as well as highlighted on the Collection page.