21 Mar 2016
Education in Star Wars: Any Lessons for Our Planet? By Rémy Jaillat
By Rémy Jaillat (age 14) Editor’s Note: This light-hearted blog is to mark the occasion of the UN ‘International Day of Happiness’ (20th... Read More
11 Mar 2016
Through Aditi’s Eyes: The Importance of Early Grade Assessment in Tracking Children’s Learning By Hannah-May Wilson
By Hannah-May Wilson, PAL Network Secretariat. Meet Aditi. Aditi is 11 years old. Aditi lives with her mother and younger sister Didi,... Read More
02 Mar 2016
Vocational Training – Crucial, But Not Everything By Karina Veal
By Karina Veal, Asian Development Bank. “You can’t fix in three months what the education system hasn’t fixed in 12 years,” says... Read More
26 Feb 2016
Workplace-Based Learning in South Africa: Towards System-Wide Implementation By Ronel Blom
By Ronel Blom, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Workplace-based Learning (WBL) has been practiced in various forms in South Africa for years.... Read More
23 Feb 2016
Expanding the Conception of Vocational Education and Training: Why the Reorganisation of South Africa’s Post-Schooling System offers New Opportunities By Volker Wedekind
By Volker Wedekind, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg In the context of the creation of a distinct Ministry of Higher Education and... Read More
22 Feb 2016
The Glass is Half Full! Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the Sustainable Development Goals By Salim Akoojee
By Salim Akoojee, International Research Associate and Consultant, South Africa and Hong Kong. After the dust has settled on the somewhat arduous... Read More
18 Feb 2016
Emerging Donor Finance to Technical and Vocational Education and Training By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, NORRAG. Anyone that has tried to explore the nature of DAC donor support to technical and vocational education and... Read More
15 Feb 2016
ASER 2015 Results from Pakistan: Making the Invisible Visible By Sehar Saeed
By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan. The recently launched ASER Report 2015 is a testament to civil society... Read More
11 Feb 2016
Syria Donors Conference: A ‘Vision of Hope’ for the Next School Year? By Hiba Salem
By Hiba Salem, University of Cambridge. “Never has the global community raised so much money in a day”, states Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,... Read More
08 Feb 2016
Measuring Learning: the Cost of Ignorance By Silvia Montoya
Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Let’s be honest. For the past few months, we – the international education community – have... Read More