06 Mar 2013

Skills Development: Mantra for Many Objectives?

By Shanti Jagannathan, Asian Development Bank. This ADB-Springer book on Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific complemented the plethora of reports that were released in 2012 on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Skills and Jobs (see NORRAG NEWS 48, forthcoming).  Such widespread interest in skills development is a reflection of the prominence...
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25 Feb 2013

Recommendations of the Commonwealth Ministerial Working Group on the Post-2015 Development Framework for Education

By Jonathan Penson, Commonwealth Secretariat. Commonwealth Ministers of education recently outlined their vision for education in the new global goals for development, emphasising education’s catalytic power and stressing the need for equity and quality in addition to access. Commonwealth Ministers of Education met in London in December 2012 and developed recommendations for post-2015 which are...
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20 Feb 2013

TVE(T?) and the GMR: Counting and Comparing Apples and Oranges

By Robert Palmer, NORRAG, Amman. Low-hanging fruits in the GMR’s TVE indicators Two years ago, in an article in NORRAG News, I noted (with Kenneth King) that the data on school- and college-based technical and vocational education (TVE) as reported and analysed in the GMRs could certainly be improved on in the GMR 2012.  (Of...
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12 Feb 2013

Five Questions about Education and Development post-2015

By Simon McGrath. Following on from earlier posts reflecting on the UKFIET-DfID event in December, I’d like to share five questions that I left that discussion with. 1. What is our model of development? Angela Little has already asked what should be the supergoal for development and I want to stress this point in a...
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06 Feb 2013

Beyond Informal and Towards a Science of Learning through Practice

By Stephen Billett. It’s time to reassert the legitimacy and worth of learning through practice. The learning of occupations that serve the social and economic needs of individuals, communities and countries is an important project. Across human history, the initial and ongoing learning of those occupations has largely occurred through the circumstances of their practice...
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04 Feb 2013

Equitable Access to Education: Toward a Post-2015 Agenda

By Lori Heninger. Across the education spectrum, much thinking, writing and advocacy is being undertaken to ensure that education is part of the international goals agenda post-2015 (e.g. see NORRAG blogs on this, and the NORRAG submission to the UK International Development Committee). This includes both the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All...
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