05 Nov 2015
Without a Proper Financing Plan, Let’s Kiss the Education SDG Good Bye By Charles Aheto-Tsegah
By Charles Aheto-Tsegah, National Council for /Curriculum and Assessment, Ghana. Special gratitude to Burnett and Upadhyay for drawing attention to the essential but avoided subject when global targets are being set: the funding arrangement! I have wondered why I am not seeing or hearing about the financing plan that is accompanying the Sustainable Development Goals... Read More
02 Nov 2015
What is New for TVET and TVSD in the SDGs’ Agenda? By Michel Carton and Sylvia Garcia Delahaye
By Michel Carton and Sylvia Garcia Delahaye, NORRAG. The Sustainable Development Goals pay some level of attention to training and skills development, with goals such as “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” (Goal 4) and “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent... Read More
27 Oct 2015
Whose Learning Should be Prioritized? By Sehar Saeed
By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report, Pakistan. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of all-encompassing goals promising to strive for a world that is equitable and inclusive, thereby to benefit ALL children and future generations without the discrimination to age, sex, disability, culture, race, ethnicity, origin, migratory status, religion, economic... Read More
23 Oct 2015
What does it mean in Curriculum Terms for Education to Prepare People for Work? By Stephanie Allais and Yael Shalem
By Stephanie Allais and Yael Shalem, Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of the Witwatersrand. It is widely believed that at all levels education should prepare individuals for work, and this belief seems to grow proportionately with rising levels of youth unemployment. And yet there is no consensus about what knowledge is required at... Read More
20 Oct 2015
Technical Vocational and Skills Development and the Sustainable Development Goals: Implications for Developing Countries and for Research By Peliwe Lolwana
By Peliwe Lolwana, University of Witwatersrand. In this piece I would like to raise two issues about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with respect to Technical Vocational and Skills Development (TVSD): the implications for developing countries, especially Sub-Saharan countries; and, the implications for institutions that teach and research education and training. But before I do... Read More
08 Oct 2015
A Roadmap to Better Data on Education Financing By Silvia Montoya
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), and Elise Legault, Programme Specialist at UIS. Leaders have pledged to provide every child with 12 years of education by 2030. Yet today, about 124 million children and youth are denied a basic education, according to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and it will... Read More
01 Oct 2015
Research and Teaching in International Education and Development: New Paradigms and Perspectives in the Post-2015 Era
By Kenneth King and Joost Monks, NORRAG. On 24th September, one day before the UN General Assembly confirmed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDGs 4 and 8 relating to Education and Employment respectively, NORRAG co-organized a panel with Teachers College, Columbia University and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) on “Research... Read More
29 Sep 2015
Time to Think Outside the Box: Buy-Downs as an Education Financing Option by Arjun Upadhyay and Nicholas Burnett
Late last week, world leaders met to adopt ambitious new sustainable development goals (SDGs) that will shape international development for the next 15 years. There is a great deal of optimism surrounding the new agenda. Yet it is almost certain that the SDGs will fail if equally ambitious and innovative financing strategies such as debt... Read More
25 Sep 2015
The 100-year Background and History of the 33 Lines in the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and Targets for Education By Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, Editor NORRAG News. SDGs have reached the finishing line – or rather the starting line! It’s official! The replacement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are formally finalized today, the 25th September 2015, when the UN General Assembly (UNGA) confirms the text that was already agreed by the UN Member States in... Read More
23 Sep 2015
Education May Not Be a Very Sustainable Development Goal By Steven J. Klees
By Steven J. Klees, University of Maryland. In a world where social and economic goals set by the international community have been ubiquitous, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) stand out. With their about-to-be-approved by the United Nations 17 goals and 169 targets, these successors to the 8-goal Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) include ambitious efforts to... Read More