“Protestant schools look forward, encouraging young people to take responsibility for their own lives, guiding them towards meaningful work and giving them a sense of purpose in life. They prepare them to take a positive role in society, inspiring them with a strong sense of social responsibility and encouraging them to be people of integrity wherever they go.”

Establishing Common Ground for Protestant Schools, a position paper by Schools500Reformation (the predecessor of GPEN), Soesterberg, 2016

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The Global Protestant Education Network (GPEN) serves as the central hub for Protestant educational institutions seeking global connection and shared development in Christian education. We provide data on Protestant schools around the world, share resources for Protestant educators and give voice to this type of education on the global level.

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News

Global Freedom of Education Index

If you want to know how your country is doing when it comes to the Freedom of Education you can find it here on the latest Global FofE Index. It is provided the researers from OIDEL, an NGO of which GPEN is a member organisation.  As usual, the top 4 countries are again Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and the UK, followed by Chili. The US ranks on place 19, Germany on 30. The highest African country are Sierra Leone on 27. In general the financing of non state schools is slightly improving in a number of countries. On the other hand, researchers also signal an increasing number of restrictions on the school curriculum by several national governments. As protestant schools worldwide, we continue to battle for an increase of the freedom of education, free parental choice and equal funding of non state schools. Therefore GPEN continues to support the work of OIDEL.

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