05 Dec 2016
Pakistan’s Educational Foresight and Alignment with the Education SDG by Sajid Ali
By Sajid Ali, Aga Khan University, Pakistan. If SDG-4 does not want to end up with the same fate as EFA or... Read More
30 Nov 2016
Is the Meister Vocational High School More Cost-Effective in South Korea? By Kye Woo LEE and Dae Hong KIM
By Kye Woo LEE and Dae Hong KIM, Korea Development Institute (KDI), South Korea, and Hay Kyeong LEE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.... Read More
28 Nov 2016
Education, Training and Agenda 2030: What Progress One Year On? By NORRAG
By NORRAG. What has actually transpired globally, regionally and nationally since the education and other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were confirmed in... Read More
21 Nov 2016
How to Reach a Consensus on Reporting Learning Globally by Aaron Benavot
By Aaron Benavot, Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO, Paris. Carrying out national and cross-national learning assessments involves an enormous commitment of time,... Read More
02 Nov 2016
Did EFA Leadership and the Global Monitoring Report Contribute to UNESCO’s Legitimacy during 2000-2015? By D. Brent Edwards Jr
By D. Brent Edwards Jr., University of Hawaii. With regard to its work in education, UNESCO came into the 2000s hoping to... Read More
24 Oct 2016
Aligning Key Initiatives in Monitoring Learning by Luis Crouch and Silvia Montoya
By Luis Crouch, RTI, and Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. In a recent blog on this site, we noted that there... Read More
10 Oct 2016
Innovative Financing for Education: Interesting Ideas or Actionable in Education 2030? By Saba Saeed
By Saba Saeed, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Pakistan. Despite the fact that education has been slow to embrace innovations compared to the other sectors,... Read More
29 Sep 2016
Why Skills Development? In Asia, a Basic Education is Not Enough Anymore by Sungsup Ra
By Sungsup Ra, Asian Development Bank. In the past three decades, economic growth in Asia has been the envy of the world.... Read More
26 Sep 2016
Calling All Partners: How to Diagnose and Treat Data Gaps that Threaten the Achievement of the Global Education Goals by Luis Crouch
By Luis Crouch, RTI, and Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The gaps in education data have become a recurring theme in... Read More
16 Sep 2016
Making the “Learning Generation” a Reality: Let’s Act on the Education Commission Report by Baela Raza Jamil
By Baela Raza Jamil, Commissioner for the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (The Education Commission) Gulalai Ahmadzai, just short of... Read More