12 Apr 2017
The Cost of Ignorance Revisited: Imitating the OECD or Learning to Be Critical? By Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye
By Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye, Kyoto University, Japan. In February 2016, Director of UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Silvia Montoya wrote... Read More
10 Apr 2017
Lost in Translation? Is the Road to an SDG Heaven – or to the Other Place - Paved with Inadequate Global Indicators? By Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, NORRAG and the University of Edinburgh. After the highly inclusive process of developing the education Sustainable Development Goal (SDG4),... Read More
23 Mar 2017
Why we need a Flagship Indicator for Education: all Children in School and Learning By Bridget Crumpton and Silvia Montoya
By Bridget Crumpton, the Education Commission, and Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. For the past year, we have been pushing for... Read More
13 Mar 2017
Unfinished Business in Global Education by Nicholas Burnett
By Nicholas Burnett, senior fellow, Results for Development Global education is not in good shape. There is too much unfinished business. I... Read More
03 Mar 2017
Taming Educational Privatization by Fazal Rizvi
By Fazal Rizvi, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Over the past three decades, the idea of privatization in education has been widely... Read More
21 Feb 2017
Outsourcing Liberia’s Education System: A New level of Absurdity in Education Provisioning by Salim Akoojee
By Salim Akoojee, Independent Education and Training Analyst, South Africa and Hong Kong. The recent move to outsource Liberia’s education system in... Read More
08 Feb 2017
The Education Commission Report: Will We Achieve EFA and the Education SDG? By Steven J. Klees
By Steven J. Klees, University of Maryland[1] The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, aka the Education Commission, recently engaged in... Read More
31 Jan 2017
Transversal Competencies and their Assessment: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific by Ramya Vivekanandan
By Ramya Vivekanandan, UNESCO Bangkok. In today’s world, there is a growing sense that the real purpose of education is not only... Read More
26 Jan 2017
Financing Education and All the Other SDGs: Global Taxation is Needed by Steven J. Klees
By Steven J. Klees, University of Maryland. The failure to achieve Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals is liable to... Read More
24 Jan 2017
Agenda 2030 - SDG4 Education 2030 - One Year On: Challenges and Opportunities by Jordan Naidoo
By Jordan Naidoo, UNESCO, Paris. It is just over a year ago on September 25, 2015 when global leaders adopted Transforming our... Read More