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 discussions to date relates to the global governance of education and training. This issue is the elephant in the education post-2015 room. But is the global governance of education and training not at...
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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 what the post-2015 education and training focus should be, and about the content and wording of a possible education goal and its targets. With less than one year to go until the September...
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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 their economy are constantly exhorted to ensure that different aspects of policy ‘join-up’ with others. Having a national ‘peak structure’ constituted by ministers, senior labour representatives, and senior people from industry and business...
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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 Delplanque (2009) From the 2nd – 6th September 2014 more than 3,000 people from 74 different nationalities gathered in Leipzig (Germany) for the 4th International Conference on Degrowth[2] for Ecological Sustainability and Social...
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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 over 70% of the workforce in African countries like the Ivory Coast, Mali or Zambia, and over 60% in Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua or Paraguay. The problems associated with informality – poverty, precarious work...
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02 Oct 2014

Africa Must Invent its Own Economic Model By Albert Damantang Camara

By Albert Damantang Camara, Minister of Technical Education, Vocational Training, Employment and Labour, Guinea. Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) hosted the Third Ministerial Conference of the Inter-country Quality Node on Technical and Vocational Skills Development (ICQN/TVSD) from 22nd to 23rd July 2014. [La version originale de ce blog a été écrit en français et apparaît ci-dessous] Like...
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30 Sep 2014

Training without a Soul By Claudio de Moura Castro

By Claudio de Moura Castro, Positivo, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Brazil shared the traditional disdain of Iberian countries towards working with one`s hands. SENAI had a decisive role in reversing prejudice and creating a well-prepared labor force. Being a private agency, run by industrialists and funded by a levy on industrial payroll, it had what it...
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