From MDGs to SDGs : Four Major Overseas Development Assistance Donor Countries’ Responses to Education 2030

Education 2030 is a new education agenda adopted by UNESCO in 2015 to respond to the Sustainable Development Goal 4 in Education (SDG4-Education) implemented by the United Nations (UN) in 2015. Since SDG4-Education has been launched since 2015, challenges are faced by donor countries in planning, amending, and implementing their overseas development assistance (ODA) policies to adapt the new post-2015 goals. This paper aims to examine the changes in policies and practices of four major ODA donor countries—China, Japan, the United Kingdom (UK), and the United States (US)—in achieving the goals of Education 2030. In specific, this study addresses this research question: “In policies and practices, what have the major donor countries of ODA in education changed to respond to the Education 2030 era?”