09 Oct 2014
Learning and Working in the Informal Economy – What do we Know and What Should we Do? A German perspective By Léna Krichewsky
By Léna Krichewsky, The Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. The share of self-employed workers and employees without regular work contracts is rising globally, reaching... Read More
06 Oct 2014
Sustaining Literacy in Africa: Developing a Literate Environment By Peter B. Easton
By Peter B. Easton, Florida State University. The goal of achieving widespread and durable literacy in Africa and other target areas of... Read More
02 Oct 2014
Africa Must Invent its Own Economic Model By Albert Damantang Camara
By Albert Damantang Camara, Minister of Technical Education, Vocational Training, Employment and Labour, Guinea. Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) hosted the Third Ministerial Conference... Read More
30 Sep 2014
Training without a Soul By Claudio de Moura Castro
By Claudio de Moura Castro, Positivo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Brazil shared the traditional disdain of Iberian countries towards working with one`s hands.... Read More
24 Sep 2014
Back to the 'Vocational Education' Drawing Board: Do we Need Some Serious Re-visioning? By Salim Akoojee
By Salim Akoojee, South Africa and Hong Kong. An August 2014 article in the Economist referred to the vocational sector as being... Read More
22 Sep 2014
The Post-2015 EFA Agenda: UNESCO and the New Global Education Network By Maren Elfert
By Maren Elfert, University of British Columbia. The run-up to the next round of Education for All (EFA) and development goals lends... Read More
10 Sep 2014
Beyond Armed Conflict and Emergency: the Role of Education and Training in Tackling Urban Violence By Jovana Carapic and Luisa Phebo
By Jovana Carapic, and Luisa Phebo, Conflict, Violence, Education and Training (CVET) Programme, NORRAG. Urban spaces are going to be the locus... Read More
08 Sep 2014
Lessons From Chengdu (2): The Political Economy of Learning Metrics By Trey Menefee
By Trey Menefee , Hong Kong Institute of Education I argued in my previous NORRAG blog post, Lessons From Chengdu: The Case... Read More
04 Sep 2014
Lessons From Chengdu: The Case For ‘Open-Source’ Learning Metric Methods By Trey Menefee
By Trey Menefee, Hong Kong Institute of Education. A few years ago I tried to learn a research technique called Agent-Based Modeling... Read More
26 Aug 2014
The Post-2015 Agenda: Examining the Youth Perspective and their Partnership Potential By Nayantara Naik
By Nayantara Naik, Freelance International Education Consultant, New York, New York. At sixteen, I attended a National Student Leadership Conference in Washington,... Read More