04 Mar 2014
Putting Equity at the Centre of Your Education Strategy: it can be done! There is No Need to wait for the Final Post-2015 Agenda By Jan Fransen, Tom Vandenbosch, Sven Rooms and Bart Dewaele
By Jan Fransen, Tom Vandenbosch, Sven Rooms and Bart Dewaele, VVOB. VVOB, a technical agency active in education for development, recently went... Read More
25 Feb 2014
Medium of Instruction and Professional Status of Teachers: Exploring the Public vs Private Schooling Debate By Kamlesh Narwana
By Kamlesh Narwana, University of Delhi, New Delhi. Over the last two decades, the low fee private (LFP) schools have witnessed an... Read More
18 Feb 2014
The Growing Gender and Educational Inequalities - Addressing the Marginalized! By Sehar Saeed and Huma Zia
By Sehar Saeed and Huma Zia, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan. Education in itself is a fundamental human right, a... Read More
17 Feb 2014
Can we avoid another Vague Skills Goal? By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, Independent Education and Skills Consultant. Education is receiving quite a lot of attention in post-2015 discussions, but how this... Read More
12 Feb 2014
Public-Private Partnership Schools: A Better Option for Quality Education for All in Pakistan? By Ravish Amjad
By Ravish Amjad, Annual Status of Education Report, Pakistan. The two major problems faced by Pakistan’s education sector remain the huge number... Read More
07 Feb 2014
Universal Basic Education? By David Levesque
By David Levesque, Independent Education Adviser. Am I the only one who finds the debate on post MDG /EFA education goals over... Read More
03 Feb 2014
Education for ‘Global Citizenship’: Beyond the ‘Fuzzword’ By Sobhi Tawil
By Sobhi Tawil, UNESCO. The notion of ‘global citizenship’ has recently gained prominence in international development discourse through the recently-adopted United Nations... Read More
27 Jan 2014
PIAAC (the PISA for Adults): a Powerful Tool for the OECD Skills Strategy By Oscar Valiente
By Oscar Valiente, University of Glasgow. The OECD launched the first results of the International Report of the Survey of Adult Skills... Read More
20 Jan 2014
Making PISA in Shanghai By Kai-ming Cheng
By Kai-ming Cheng, University of Hong Kong. The PISA 2012 results were published in December 2013; Shanghai again tops the ranking, followed... Read More
16 Jan 2014
PISA in Peru: Achieving Poorly, But Improving By Santiago Cueto
By Santiago Cueto, Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), Peru. As in the past, the recent results of the PISA assessment... Read More