17 Nov 2014
Are Brazilians Masochists? Why do they Insist on PISA? By Claudio de Moura Castro
By Claudio de Moura Castro, Positivo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Kenneth King, NORRAG NEWS’ editor, has asked me why Brazilians insist on participating... Read More
12 Nov 2014
The Global Influence of the OECD in International Education Policies By Simone Bloem
By Simone Bloem, Université Paris Descartes/University of Bamberg. The OECD is the co-ordinator of what some claim is currently the most important... Read More
10 Nov 2014
Situating Post-2015: the Global Architecture of EFA, GCE, ESD and the World Education Forum By Bong-gun Chung
By Bong-gun Chung, Seoul National University. It is not certain whether those who designed the Education for All (EFA) Goals and the... Read More
05 Nov 2014
The Elephant in the Post-2015 Education Room: What about the Global Governance of Education and Training? (Part 2) by Kenneth King and Robert Palmer
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer, NORRAG. In our last post, we argued that a crucial missing element of the post-2015 education... Read More
03 Nov 2014
The Elephant in the Post-2015 Education Room: What about the Global Governance of Education and Training? (Part 1) by Kenneth King and Robert Palmer
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer, NORRAG. Since at least 2012 there has been a significant amount of discussion and debate about... Read More
28 Oct 2014
From EFA post-2015 to EFA 2030: A Reflection on the Asia-Pacific Regional Education Conference By Manzoor Ahmed
By Manzoor Ahmed, BRAC University. The first of the UNESCO-organised regional consultations planned to be held in different regions leading to the... Read More
23 Oct 2014
Human Resource Development Strategies and Structure in South Africa: Planning, Plumbing, or Posing? By Stephanie Allais
By Stephanie Allais, University of the Witwatersrand. Governments who are attempting to develop education policies and systems that meet the needs of... Read More
13 Oct 2014
Slowing Education? By Mònica Serlavós
By Mònica Serlavós, NORRAG, Geneva. « Should we prepare the students to be intelligent and revolutionary but unemployed or alienated producers-consumers? »[1] Legros and... Read More
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