09 Sep 2013
Education Aid and the “Transformative Shifts” Called for by the Post-2015 Agenda
By Birger Fredriksen, Consultant, formerly World Bank. The report of the High-level Panel (HLP) on the Post-2015 Development Agenda concludes that this... Read More
04 Sep 2013
Lifelong Learning in a Learning Society – Making it Happen by Building Partnerships
By Manzoor Ahmed, BRAC University. An old idea highlighted by the Faure Commission in the 1970s, has gained new relevance in... Read More
02 Sep 2013
Is the Proposed Post-2015 Skills Target Unmeasurable?
By Trey Menefee, University of Hong Kong. On the one hand, the skills community should be delighted that the Post-2015 High Level... Read More
28 Aug 2013
Undoing Myths about Teacher Education Effects and Protecting New Teachers as they Begin to Teach
By Beatrice Avalos-Bevan, University of Chile. In different geographical contexts one often finds sweeping statements about teachers that are not always... Read More
23 Aug 2013
Education, Knowledge and Evidence in the Post-2015 High-Level Panel Report: Utopian, Poetic or Technocratic? All Three! (Part 3)
[read part 1 and part 2 of this blog post here] PART III: Data for whom and by whom: a technocratic revolution?... Read More
22 Aug 2013
Education, Knowledge and Evidence in the Post-2015 High-Level Panel Report: Utopian, Poetic or Technocratic? All Three! (Part 2)
[read part 1 of this blog post here] PART II: Education and Training: on the change curve or the mainstream one?... Read More
21 Aug 2013
Education, Knowledge and Evidence in the Post-2015 High-Level Panel Report: Utopian, Poetic or Technocratic? All Three! (Part 1)
PART I: From Utopia and Poesy to Reality By Michel Carton, NORRAG. [note: all page numbers refer to pages in the HLP... Read More
19 Aug 2013
Ban Ki-moon, Post-2015 and Education. Can you fix it? Yes we can!
By NORRAG. The long expected MDG/post-2015 report of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has now... Read More
13 Aug 2013
Innovative Financing: the Need for More than Finance
By Susan Durston, former UNICEF Chief of Education. What Nick Burnett has outlined in his piece on Innovative Financing is indeed... Read More
08 Aug 2013
Innovative Financing in Education: Is it Over Before it Began? No, We just need to Pivot our thinking
By Nicholas Burnett, Results for Development Institute. Starting in 2010, it seemed as if innovative financing was about to make its... Read More