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
12 Sep 2016
Digitisation and the School by Mike Douse
By Mike Douse, Freelance International Educational Consultant. Over four decades ago, as Foundation Director of Australia’s Disadvantaged Schools Program, along with my... Read More
07 Sep 2016
The Privatisation of Education: a Global Phenomenon with Multiple Faces by Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila and Adrián Zancajo
By Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila and Adrián Zancajo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Education privatisation has become an important topic in the global... Read More
25 Aug 2016
The Governance of Education and Training: Agenda 2030 and Beyond by Radu Barua, Laetitia Houlmann and Velibor Velibor Jakovleski
By Radu Bârză (NORRAG), Laetitia Houlmann (consultant), Velibor Jakovleski (NORRAG). Understanding the shifting nature of governance in education and training (GET) is... Read More