02 Sep 2013

Is the Proposed Post-2015 Skills Target Unmeasurable?

By Trey Menefee, University of Hong Kong. On the one hand, the skills community should be delighted that the Post-2015 High Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons has suggested a skills target. Specifically, they suggested an “increase the number of young and adult women and men with the skills, including technical and vocational, needed for...
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28 Aug 2013

Undoing Myths about Teacher Education Effects and Protecting New Teachers as they Begin to Teach

By Beatrice Avalos-Bevan, University of Chile.   In different geographical contexts one often finds sweeping statements about teachers that are not always entirely valid or that misrepresent situations that would require more careful analysis based on evidence.  I have been worried for some time about headlines in policy documents or media reports prefaced with the...
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22 Aug 2013

Education, Knowledge and Evidence in the Post-2015 High-Level Panel Report: Utopian, Poetic or Technocratic? All Three! (Part 2)

[read part 1 of this blog post here]   PART II:  Education and Training: on the change curve or the mainstream one? By Michel Carton, NORRAG. What does this mean for education and training? Noting the frequency of the following words enables some assumptions to be made: Education 22 Schools 3 (mostly primary) (Il)Literacy 1 Non-formal...
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19 Aug 2013

Ban Ki-moon, Post-2015 and Education. Can you fix it? Yes we can!

By NORRAG. The long expected MDG/post-2015 report of the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has now been released. A life of dignity for all: accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals and advancing the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015 will be a main input to the Special event...
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13 Aug 2013

Innovative Financing: the Need for More than Finance

By Susan Durston, former UNICEF Chief of Education.   What Nick Burnett has outlined in his piece on Innovative Financing is indeed food for thought.  As someone, who, during my time in UNICEF, (I am now retired from there so am writing as an independent professional) was also in the Education Task Force of the...
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