This book is really valuable for anyone seeking to understand the complexity and depth of policy-making in education systems. It covers such a wide range of perspectives, identifying new themes and providing helpful insights in an area where practices and approaches are only in the early stages of being understood.

Seán Ó Foghlú, former Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, Ireland

This innovative volume draws open the heavy curtain on education policymaking, with experience-driven insights from a unique assemblage of insiders, influential academics, and boundary-crossers. Its expansive, multidimensional approach to “policymaking” offers a useful perspective for researchers, students, practitioners… and policymakers as well.

Christopher Lubienski, Professor of Education Policy and Director of the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy, Indiana University, USA

Advising on and Making Education Policy provides a breath of fresh air in the critical policy literature. Foregrounding the inner workings of the 'policy-making ecosystem', the book showcases complex, often invisible, yet ultimately vital policy work being done across education systems today. It is essential reading for policy scholars internationally.

Meghan Stacey, Associate Professor, School of Education, University of New South Wales, Australia

Advising on and Making Education Policy proffers wide-ranging insights into policy making in education, including the places of research and policy advice. It is original in its global coverage and eclectic inclusion of insider views, those of stakeholders, researchers and policy enactors. It is essential reading for those concerned with education policy.

Bob Lingard, Emeritus Professor, School of Education, The University of Queensland, Australia.