IIEP's Global Campus drives transformation and enables professionals and organizations to develop their knowledge and skills to achieve the Education 2030 Agenda for equitable and inclusive quality education and lifelong learning for all.

Train with us

Start your training journey in educational planning and management.

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Find the right training for you

The IIEP Global Campus offers access to various courses and programmes on educational planning and management across IIEP’s three offices in Buenos Aires, Dakar, and Paris. 

Trainees can obtain the in-depth Specialized Diploma of Education Sector Planning and Management or the shorter Foundations Diploma of Education Sector Planning and Management. Our specialized courses also provide shorter training options on specific themes. 

Our courses and programmes allow you to accumulate IIEP credits, which can be applied toward the diploma of your choice.

Who is our training for?

Our training offer is designed for professionals in ministries of education worldwide, particularly those in planning, monitoring and evaluation, and policy departments. 

It is also tailored for individuals working in various national education institutions, regional or local education offices, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, and those involved in educational development.

Discover our learning pathways

Master the foundations of planning

Gain competencies and skills in strategic planning and management and advance towards one of our diplomas.

Pursue a specialized course

Sharpen your knowledge on a specific theme or topic and accumulate IIEP credits.

We also offer customized, on-demand training for countries

IIEP designs and implements training courses and programmes at the request of governments, organizations, training institutions, donor agencies, NGOs, etc. to address specific local and regional education challenges.

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What our alumni say

Read the testimonies of our former trainees to learn more about their experiences and what sets IIEP's training apart.

Our training in figures

24,000
alumni
183
countries represented
1,350+
people trained annually
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Competency framework

IIEP has developed a competency framework to anchor its training offer. It defines the core technical, relational, and strategic competencies and skills essential for people designing and implementing better education policies and plans.  

Our training contacts

Beatriz Pont, Global Training Team Leader
Beatriz
Pont
Global Training Team Leader

Throughout her career, Beatriz Pont has worked on education policy, education change, and school leadership internationally. As Global Training Lead at UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), she currently leads a team of specialists to develop the IIEP UNESCO Global Campus and teaches selected courses, such as the new Education Leadership Seminar. Her work focuses on strengthening the capacities of education policy-makers and planners to analyze and formulate sound education policies and implementation plans.

Prior to joining IIEP, she worked at the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, where she launched and led OECD countries’ education change and implementation support and worked with many different countries in their school improvement reform efforts. She also spearheaded a comparative series on education reforms, Education Policy Outlook, on school leadership, equity and quality in education, and adult learning. Previously, she was a researcher in the Economic and Social Council of the Government of Spain.

Pont teaches Comparative Education Policy at Sciences Po School of International Affairs, Paris, and has written numerous articles and keynotes internationally on leading education change.

Education

  • PhD in Political Science, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • MA in International Relations, Columbia University
  • BA in Political Science, Pitzer College, Claremont, California
  • Honorary Doctorate, Sheffield Hallam University
Mariana Cristina Clucellas, National Training Coordinator
Mariana Cristina
Clucellas
National Training Coordinator

After serving as Deputy Training Coordinator at the IIEP-UNESCO Latin America and the Caribbean Office from 2019 to 2020, Mariana Clucellas is currently the Training Coordinator, responsible for team management and the organisation and supervision of regular and customised training programmes and courses.

She began her professional experience in civil society organisations. From 2000 to 2003, she worked at the United Nations Development Programme as Academic Assistant for the National Human Development Report. In 2005, she joined the IIEP-UNESCO Office for Latin America and the Caribbean as a consultant, participating in the design and implementation of training programmes in educational policy planning aimed at ministry officials in the region. She has taught at the University of Lanús and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Argentina. She was also a consultant at the National Institute for Teacher Training in Argentina and coordinator of the Planning Area during 2016 and 2017. She then joined the technical team of the National Directorate of Educational Policy Planning (DNPPE) at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology of Argentina until 2019.

She has participated in research related to teacher training and the integration of ICT in education. Additionally, she has authored materials on educational policy planning and management.

Education

  • MA in Education, Harvard University
  • Postgraduate degree in Non-Profit Organisations, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
  • BA in Political Science, University of Buenos Aires
Khalil Bahloul, Agricultural Officer
Khalil
Bahloul
Agricultural Officer

Khalil Bahloul est expert en formation agricole rurale et pour le secteur informel pour la PEFOP de l’IIPE-Pôle de Dakar.

M. Bahloul intervient dans le développement, la gestion et l’administration d’une offre de formation en pilotage et gestion de l’EFTP ainsi que dans l’appui aux pays partenaires dans l’analyse, la planification et la mise en œuvre de leurs politiques de formation professionnelle.

Il a 19 ans d’expérience dans le secteur de la formation professionnelle. D’abord Ingénieur principal formateur, il a occupé par la suite plusieurs postes au sein du système de formation professionnelle en Tunisie : responsable pédagogique, directeur d’établissements de formation, formateur des formateurs. Il a participé également à des activités d’analyses des dispositifs, stratégies et des opérations de mise en œuvre et d’implantation des programmes de formation professionnelle.

M. Bahloul est Ingénieur en science agricole et porteur d’un DEA en production animale.