IPA: publishers are key in delivering Sustainable Development Goal 4 – Education
The IPA attended UNESCO’s Meeting of the Collective Consultation on Education in Siem Reap, Cambodia, this month to communicate the essential role of educational publishers in implementing UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 – Education.
Educational publishers show WIPO delegates how copyright enables vital teaching innovations
Educational publishers from around the world showed delegates at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) today how copyright has enabled them to invest in the digital technology that is shaping the future of school-age learning.
What Works? 2017 draws record attendance
The London Book Fair, which co-hosts the IPA’s annual What Works? educational publishing conference in association with the UK Publishers Association (PA), has revealed that the attendance at the 2017 edition was higher than ever before.
Reckless textbook policy will undermine Georgian childhood literacy, IPA warns.
Tbilisi 30 March 2017 – Childhood literacy in Georgia will be a primary casualty of a well-meaning but destructive free schoolbook law that has handed the government control of all textbook production and stripped publishers and authors of their intellectual property rights, the IPA warned today.
Leadership handover opens new era for the IPA’s Educational Publishers Forum
The Educational Publishers Forum (EPF) – an influential grouping of world K-12 textbook publishers mobilized by the International Publishers Association in 2009 – has elected a new Chair and Vice Chair, bringing fresh impetus to the group as it seeks to consolidate its impact on global textbook policy.
Speaker line-up announced for 2017 edition of What Works? educational publishing conference
The IPA and The London Book Fair have announced the speaker line-up for the fifth edition of their What Works? Successful Publishing Resources & Technologies for the Future education conference, in association with The Publishers Association (PA).
What Works? 2016 report
Attendance at the fourth one-day What Works? event was the highest yet, attesting to its value to the educational publishing sector as a networking and learning experience.
Public education in Mozambique to suffer under new ‘closed market’ textbook policy
Public educational performance in Mozambique is likely to plunge when a change in textbook policy takes hold, the IPA has warned the country’s education minister, who has announced that all secondary school pupils will only have access to one book per subject per year from 2017.
Threatened Georgian publishers take their case to European Court of Human Rights
Four Georgian publishers that are facing bankruptcy because of a government scheme to commandeer the textbook market took their case to the European Court of Human Rights, this month, in a last-gasp bid for survival.
Kenya: VAT on books is harming the quality of public education
Three years after the Kenyan government introduced VAT on books, the country’s publishing and bookselling industries – of which educational books represent 85% – have been decimated by the move, according to the Kenyan Publishers Association (KPA).