17 Dec 2013
Education and Skills Goals and Targets Post-2015: What Use of Evidence by the UN-Related Education Post-2015 Processes?
By Robert Palmer and Kenneth King. Evidence, Data and Development Post-2015 As we approach the end of 2013, we can look back on the tremendous flurry of post-2015 activity that has taken place over the last 12 months (and more). We have seen various formal post-2015 engines turn on and come up to full power;... Read More
12 Dec 2013
Education Among Goals Ahead of the Post-2015 Game
By Gina Bergh and Jonathan Couturier at the Overseas Development Institute. It’s been a hectic year for the post-2015 development agenda, with a stream of high and low level panels, consultations, working groups and proposals flooding the policy space. So we set out to assess the proposals up to now likely to carry weight as... Read More
09 Dec 2013
Education Saves Lives: Ensuring the Right to Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
By Shaharazad Abuel-Ealeh, Global Campaign for Education. For every organisation in every sector clamouring to be heard in the frenetic world of the post-2015 development agenda, finding the message that cuts through the noise and is heard – can reap potentially huge rewards. At every opportunity we drive forward with our national and global advocacy... Read More
28 Nov 2013
Building Basic Human Capital in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by 2030: A Huge but Feasible Funding Challenge
By Birger Fredriksen, Consultant, formerly World Bank. To build the basic human capital covered by the six EFA goals is an indispensable development stage that no country can leapfrog: It must be done. To reach these goals (though some may need to be reformulated) must therefore remain a top priority up to and beyond 2015... Read More
25 Nov 2013
In Indonesia, Tackling Education Inequality Through Better Governance by Samer Al-Samarrai
By Samer Al-Samarrai, World Bank. Since the UN’s High Level Panel announced its vision for the post-2015 development agenda in May, much debate has centred on the absence of a goal for inequality among the panel’s list of 15 proposed goals. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, commenting on the goals in Jakarta last June, stressed... Read More
21 Nov 2013
The South African Education and Training System and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
By Peliwe Lolwana, University of Witwatersrand. South Africa has never actually engaged seriously with MDG 2 on education and the post-2015 agenda can never drive the developmental agenda of the country. The post-2015 agenda has finally descended into South Africa. In the last month there has been a flurry of activities with different government departments... Read More
18 Nov 2013
Learning Assessment: Not a Threat, but a Necessity. How to Take the Best from the Data and Give Priority to the Learning Process
By Jacques Malpel, Conference of Education Ministers of Francophone Countries (CONFEMEN). The international education community is putting a strong emphasis on service delivery. In the education field, service delivery (although of course necessary) is not sufficient, and evidence shows that the transformation from inputs to learning outcomes has not produced the expected results in terms... Read More
13 Nov 2013
Who are the Competitors in the Global Measurement Sweepstakes?
By Alexandra Draxler, former UNESCO education specialist. The report of the UN High level Panel, A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development, explains that a “data revolution” is essential to improve the quality of statistics and information available to citizens, as well as to assess progress towards global targets. National... Read More
07 Nov 2013
The Post-2015 Data Revolution for Education and Development: One Measurement to Rule Them All?
By Stéphanie Langstaff, NORRAG. Though different in scope, both the “new data revolution” proposed by the UNSG’s Post-2015 High-Level Panel of eminent persons, and universal learning indicators recommended by the Learning Metrics Task Force, advocate the improvement of data and the measurement of outcomes – through globally comparable indicators and metrics – for better monitoring... Read More
04 Nov 2013
The Global Education Conference– South Korea, May 2015: Debates About Education Beyond 2015 and the EFA Goals
By Kenneth King, NORRAG and University of Edinburgh. There is much excitement in South Korea about its offer of a Global Conference on Education in May 2015. This is seen to be in the tradition of the iconic Jomtien conferences of March 1990 in Thailand, and the Dakar World Education Forum in April 2000 in... Read More