08 May 2015

Low-fee Private Schools in Peru By María Balarin

By María Balarin, Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), Lima, Peru. Low fee private schools are a growing phenomenon in many low and middle-income countries. Their emergence usually takes place in the context of a default privatization processes which, though often aided by generous legislation, are not the product of government design but a...
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27 Apr 2015

Skills Development in India: a Daunting Task By Indu Grover

By Indu Grover, CCS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, India. Education and skills, the foundation of human capital formation, are the key driving forces for socio-economic development. The Indian economy had a Hindu rate of growth (sic) for decades, before it opened up in 1991 with periods of ups and downs. Since May 2014, under the...
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15 Apr 2015

In Search of Sustainable TVSD Financing: It’s Not (Only) About the Money, Money Money By Robert Palmer

By Robert Palmer, NORRAG Technical and vocational skills development (TVSD) spans many domains; in many countries it exists in schools and institutes under the authority of multiple ministries, including of course the ministry of education and ministry of labour; it exists in the private sector in enterprises and private vocational institutes; it exists at pre-tertiary...
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09 Apr 2015

Where do the Proposed Education Targets Fall Short? The View of the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015 By NORRAG

By NORRAG. Below we highlight some of the key issues related to education post-2015 raised in the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015 that was published today. Overview of the proposed education targets The proposed education SDG (Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all) and targets are ‘considerably broader than...
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18 Mar 2015

India’s Skills Challenge: Reforming Vocational Education and Training to Harness the Demographic Dividend By Santosh Mehrotra

By Santosh Mehrotra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system in India needs to expand very rapidly if it is to serve the interests of the 5-6  million youth joining the labour force every year, and of an economy that is both growing rapidly as well diversifying fast. However,...
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02 Mar 2015

The Biggest NGO in Government By David Levesque

By David Levesque, Independent Education Consultant. So said the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his autobiography, of Clare Short’s Department for International Development in the early 2000s.   Whether irony or whimsical musing, it reflected a shift in the balance of how UK government aid had previously been perceived and challenged the zeitgeist on where...
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23 Feb 2015

International Benchmarking and Measuring the Quality of Learning By NORRAG

By NORRAG. Current post-2015 proposals for universal goals, targets and indicators, and the mushrooming of global initiatives, meetings and reports, suggest a shift of focus away from developing country contexts and towards a global framework of development. One of the key elements of this framework seems to be a strong push for internationally comparable data...
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