NIE's flagship journal, the Asia Pacific Journal of Education (APJE) , has achieved an impact factor of 0.785 in 2016. This is a new high for the journal and represents a 48 per cent increase from its 2015 impact factor of 0.531. According to the 2016 Journal Citation Reports released by Clarivate Analytics, APJE is now ranked 160 out of 235 journals in the Education & Educational Research category, up from 177 out of 231 in 2015. Asia Pacific Journal of Education focuses on major shifts in educational policy and governance, curriculum and pedagogy, and on the everyday lives and practices of students and teachers in the Asia-Pacific Rim. New empirical and theoretical work, as well as critical and exploratory essays that focus on the impacts of modernity, postcolonialism and globalisation on education systems will be featured. We would welcome manuscripts on: cultural and linguistic continuity and change; ethnicity, class, gender and diversity in education; systems and infrastructure development; cultures and discourses of educational organisations; educational policy responses; migrant and indigenous education; historical and current educational relationships between Asian and Pacific countries and systems; relationships with the educational ideas and systems of the "North" and "West"; the impacts of new communication media and technologies, new and hybrid cultural forms and practices, and globalised economies on education.