16 Jan 2015
Global Education Governance – How Real? by Manzoor Ahmed
By Manzoor Ahmed, BRAC University, Dhaka. Global education governance – is it something real or figments of the fertile imagination of Kenneth King and Robert Palmer? The duo has drawn attention to it with a two-part blog (NORRAG Blog, 3rd and 5th November, 2014) under the title “The Elephant in the Post-2015 Education Room…” and... Read More
15 Jan 2015
Deadline extended: Online Survey - Have Your Say about NORRAG
Dear Members, colleagues and friends, We are pleased to invite you to complete our biennial online survey. The aim of this survey is to assess how NORRAG has performed in 2017 and 2018, and to help NORRAG improve its work and strategy for the years ahead. Please follow this link to fill in the questionnaire:... Read More
14 Jan 2015
Post-2015 Education: Calling for Your Feedback By Albert Motivans
Join a global consultation on education indicators for a global agenda By Albert Motivans, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. In mid-November 2014 the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) launched an online consultation to gather your views on the proposed post-2015 global education indicators. The proposed indicators have been drawn together by a Technical Advisory Group (TAG)... Read More
12 Jan 2015
The Challenge of Monitoring the Post-2015 Education Goals and Targets By Aaron Benavot
By Aaron Benavot, Global Monitoring Report team, c/o UNESCO, Paris. The recognition of mutuality and interdependence drives much of the post-2015 development vision. Rather than an agenda dictated by rich countries to poor or conflict-affected countries, the post-2015 agenda is based on principles of universality. The goals, and the role that each nation plays in... Read More
09 Jan 2015
Learning Targets and Cognitive Science: How much Knowledge Do Low-income Children Catch in their Memory Nets? By Helen Abadzi
By Helen Abadzi, College of Education, University of Texas at Arlington. Around 1973, a young Indian woman fell ill and went into a coma. When she emerged, she reportedly found in her memory the personal recollections of a Bengali woman who had died about 150 years earlier. Furthermore she reportedly spoke and wrote Bengali with... Read More
05 Jan 2015
NORRAG NEWS 51 now online! Education and Skills Post-2015 and the Global Governance of Education: Agendas and Architecture by Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, Editor of NORRAG NEWS. A crucial missing element of the post-2015 education discussions to date relates to the global governance of education and training (GGET). There have been countless meetings, conferences, reports and advocacy events around education post-2015 in the last three years. NORRAG alone has run over 100 blogs on the... Read More
29 Dec 2014
From Education Post-2014 to Post-2015: That Was the Year That Was! By Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, NORRAG News Editor. Only a few more days before it will be post-2014! But it still seems a long way to go before we shall get any conclusion to the continuing post-2015 debates around education and skills. Are we any clearer now about outcomes than we were at the end of 2013?... Read More
16 Dec 2014
Indicators for Universal Versus National Coverage of Goals and Targets By Abbie Raikes
By Abbie Raikes, UNESCO, Paris. The post-2015 development agenda asks for significant changes in how we conceptualize and measure progress. The proposed post-2015 education targets present a broader and more comprehensive emphasis on learning; beyond education, a set of targets is proposed that is inter-sectoral, meaning that education is not only a desired end in... Read More
11 Dec 2014
Development Inc. and the Ghost in the Machine: the Idea of Global Governance by Euan Auld
By Euan Auld, Institute of Education, London. Though global governance in education is often attributed to any of a number of world powers or international organisations, in most cases a common idea has in some way infused the array of actors performing the function. I therefore begin by clarifying the origin and essence of the... Read More
08 Dec 2014
Rethinking Pedagogy? Student-centred Pedagogy and its Unintended Consequences By Hülya Kosar Altinyelken
By Hülya Kosar Altinyelken, The University of Amsterdam. In recent decades, school pedagogy has assumed central importance in education reforms that are designed to enhance the quality of education. It has been increasingly linked to economic growth, international competitiveness, and political democratisation. Particularly after the 1990s, the global reform discourse on pedagogy has been progressively... Read More