28 Jan 2013
What Learning is Important? How should it be Measured? How can such Measurement Improve Quality?: An Update of the Learning Metrics Task Force
By Kate Anderson Simons. I was pleased to read about the rich discussions NORRAG members are having on education and the post-2015 agenda. Heikki Holmås’ call for “an open and inclusive process where all stakeholders, especially partners in the South, take actively part in the discussions” really resonated with me, as this has been a... Read More
24 Jan 2013
Policy Transfer in Vocational Skills Development: Dual System and NQF Promises
By Markus Maurer, the Zurich University of Teacher Education. Does the dual system live up to expectations? How do we go beyond implementing it in its traditional form? What are the experiences with the implementation of national qualifications frameworks (NQFs)? What are the key challenges of certification systems and the role of NQFs? These were... Read More
08 Jan 2013
Global Reports on TVET, Skills Development, Work and Jobs
By Kenneth King, NORRAG & University of Edinburgh. 2012 saw the arrival of a whole cluster of global reports on TVET, Skills, Work and Jobs, including from the ILO, World Bank, OECD, UNESCO, McKinsey and others. And what makes a report ‘global’ anyway? Is it possible that ‘regional’ reports like the Asian Development Bank’s Good... Read More
02 Jan 2013
2012: The Year of Global Reports on TVET, Skills & Jobs Consensus or diversity? Forthcoming issue of NORRAG NEWS
Ten years after the start of the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report process in 2002, we have finally a Skills GMR entitled: Youth and Skills: Putting education to work. The other five EFA Dakar Goals were analysed as individual GMRs from 2002 to 2007. The first GMR explained the difficulty of treating Goal 3 (on skills)... Read More
10 Dec 2012
What Counts?
By David Levesque, Independent Education Adviser. Accountability, value for money and results are central priorities for the current UK government. But applied to education and development what are the implications, where does the balance lie, whose accountability matters, how it is measured, and what are the costs and outcomes? Accountability to the British tax payer... Read More
03 Dec 2012
More Strategic Use of Education Aid to Promote Education Equity
By Birger Fredriksen, Results for Development and former Director of Human Development for Africa in the World Bank. I agree with the importance Minister Holmås gives to education equity. There are many reasons why the increasing inequity in education is an important and growing concern. Apart from access to good quality basic education being a... Read More
27 Nov 2012
Education, Equity and Learning Post-2015 (part 2)
By Kenneth King, NORRAG and University of Edinburgh. This is the second blog post that relates to a meeting on‘Education: Equity and Learning for all – looking beyond 2015’, organized by Save the Children in Oslo on 20th November, 2012. The first blog post, by the Norwegian Minister of International Development, Mr Heikki Holmås, can... Read More
23 Nov 2012
Education, Equity and Learning Post-2015 (part 1)
By Heikki Holmås, Minister of International Development, Norway. This is the first blog post that relates to a meeting on ‘Education: Equity and Learning for all – looking beyond 2015’, organized by Save the Children in Oslo on 20th November, 2012. This piece was originally posted (minus the image which is from Save the Children’s... Read More
19 Nov 2012
Education, Skills and Jobs: Seeing the Global Monitoring Report as part of a Triptych of Reports
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. In the past six months on this site I have blogged both on the May version of UNESCO’s World Report on Technical and Vocational Education and Training and the World Bank’s World Development Report on Jobs. Now it is time, after having just hosted the UK launch event... Read More
12 Nov 2012
Post-2015 Education Planning under Occupation: A View from Palestine
By Randa Hilal, OPTIMUM for Consultancy & Training, Ramallah. What kind of education and what kind of development do we want in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt) post-2015? In this blog, I would like to comment on the experience of the oPt, which is not only part of the Global South, but has been under... Read More