12 Nov 2014
The Global Influence of the OECD in International Education Policies By Simone Bloem
By Simone Bloem, Université Paris Descartes/University of Bamberg. The OECD is the co-ordinator of what some claim is currently the most important and influential international student assessment: The Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA). PISA not only includes the 34 member states of the OECD, but an almost equally large number of so-called partner countries... Read More
10 Nov 2014
Situating Post-2015: the Global Architecture of EFA, GCE, ESD and the World Education Forum By Bong-gun Chung
By Bong-gun Chung, Seoul National University. It is not certain whether those who designed the Education for All (EFA) Goals and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over a decade ago intentionally – and in a close collaboration – set the same target year of 2015 on purpose. Intended or not, the coincidence of these two... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
28 Oct 2014
From EFA post-2015 to EFA 2030: A Reflection on the Asia-Pacific Regional Education Conference By Manzoor Ahmed
By Manzoor Ahmed, BRAC University. The first of the UNESCO-organised regional consultations planned to be held in different regions leading to the World Education Forum in Incheon, Korea in May 2015 took place in Bangkok between 6-8 August 2014 for the Asia Pacific Region. This is to be followed by consultations for Latin America and... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
06 Oct 2014
Sustaining Literacy in Africa: Developing a Literate Environment By Peter B. Easton
By Peter B. Easton, Florida State University. The goal of achieving widespread and durable literacy in Africa and other target areas of Education For All is not likely to be attained – even by the next international deadline chosen – if equivalent attention is not given to ensuring that the basic skills school leavers and... Read More
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... Read More