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
13 Jan 2014
PISA for Development: One World, One Measure for Learning? By Angeline M. Barrett
By Angeline M. Barrett, University of Bristol. Technical work has started on PISA for Development, the three year project, conceived as a... Read More
10 Jan 2014
PISA in Low and Middle Income Countries By Simone Bloem
By Simone Bloem, formerly OECD. Over the past decade, the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) has become the worlds’ premier yardstick... Read More
08 Jan 2014
PISA for Development and the Post-2015 Agenda By Michael Davidson, Michael Ward and Alejandro Gomez Palma
By Michael Davidson, Michael Ward and Alejandro Gomez Palma, OECD. As part of its contribution to the post-2015 education framework, the Organisation... Read More
31 Dec 2013
LEARNING AND NOT LEARNING: That Was the Year That Was – 2013
By Kenneth King, NORRAG and University of Edinburgh. The NORRAG Blog has appeared 115 times since June 2012, and this is the... Read More
17 Dec 2013
Education and Skills Goals and Targets Post-2015: What Use of Evidence by the UN-Related Education Post-2015 Processes?
By Robert Palmer and Kenneth King. Evidence, Data and Development Post-2015 As we approach the end of 2013, we can look back... Read More
12 Dec 2013
Education Among Goals Ahead of the Post-2015 Game
By Gina Bergh and Jonathan Couturier at the Overseas Development Institute. It’s been a hectic year for the post-2015 development agenda, with... Read More