09 Jul 2015
The Politics of Indicator Development in the Education 2030 Framework for Action By Tore Bernt Sørensen
By Tore Bernt Sørensen, University of Bristol. As the process of defining the Education 2030 Framework for Action becomes nearer to completion, this post takes a critical look at one prominent submission to the post-2015 education debate: the OECD Universal Basic Skills report. In the report, the OECD effectively proposes that PISA should be extended... Read More
25 Jun 2015
What’s Missing from the Education SDG Debate? By David Levesque
By David Levesque. Independent Education Consultant So much fine sounding rhetoric, but no sense of prioritisation in an age of limited resources. The texts so far read like UN rights declarations. So much is needed, all areas are equally important, no section or person left behind. Money should be found to fund it all. But... Read More
22 Jun 2015
The World Education Forum (WEF) at Incheon: What Reflections, Memories, Legacy? By Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, Editor NORRAG News. It’s almost exactly a month since Incheon, and it’s perhaps appropriate to consider what is the enduring legacy from this huge investment of time, thought and resources, especially by South Korea but also UNESCO. Another way of answering the question is to consider what the international education community still... Read More
16 Jun 2015
Why the World Needs a Global Fund for Education By Chandrika Bahadur and Guido Schmidt-Traub
By Chandrika Bahadur and Guido Schmidt-Traub, Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Paris and New Dehli. A high-quality education is the human right of every child. This right is enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and forms the center of the Education for All Initiative launched in 2000, the Millennium Development Goals, and the... Read More
05 Jun 2015
Building Consensus towards an Indicator Framework to Monitor Education Beyond 2015 By Albert Motivans
By Albert Motivans, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A proposal for thematic indicators presented at the World Education Forum At the World Education Forum (WEF) recently held in Incheon, Korea, the global education community came together to discuss goals and targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as a framework to monitor the education... Read More
28 May 2015
TVET and Sustainable Development: Learning from Experience. What are we waiting for and why? By Enrique Pieck
By Enrique Pieck, Iberoamerican University, Mexico. Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) policies and programs come and go and so their different focuses, approaches and acronyms flood the literature on this theme and make things a bit complicated (SD,[i] GMR,[ii] HRBA[iii], HDCA,[iv] VET,[v] TVET,[vi] TVSD,[vii] EFA,[viii] etc.). The point is that while TVET programs... Read More
22 May 2015
Clarifying the Obscure: Facing the “Measurement” Challenge of the Education Post-2015 Targets By Dierdre Williams
By Dierdre Williams, Open Society Foundations. As the process of developing indicators for the Post-2015 education targets unfolds, some of the targets are at risk of being dropped on account of being ‘un-measurable.’ However, excluding more holistic but harder to assess educational targets will inevitably remove vital focus from some of the most important aspects... Read More
21 May 2015
Global Governance of the Draft SDG Education Goal and its Targets: Critical Challenges for both North and South By Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, Editor NORRAG News. Under the above title, NORRAG, in association with the Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) in Bangladesh, and the BRAC Institute of Educational Development, put on a Side Event on the 20th May at the World Education Forum (WEF) in Incheon. This Side Event asked its audience to consider WHO... Read More
20 May 2015
World Education Forum: Songdo Takeaways By NORRAG
By NORRAG. The World Education Forum is currently taking place in Songdo, Incheon – Korea. Below are a few takeaways from Day 1. Results based financing and implications for post-2015 education indicators Jim Yong Kim, the President of the World Bank, announced that the World Bank Group plans to double results-based financing for education to... Read More
19 May 2015
The Implications of Changing Private Rates of Return to Schooling By Harry Anthony Patrinos
By Harry Anthony Patrinos, World Bank. High returns signal that tertiary education is a good private investment; the public priority, however, isn’t a blanket subsidy for all, but a concerted effort to improve fair, equitable, sustainable cost-recovery at the tertiary level. In addition to being a basic human service, education produces some strong economic benefits.... Read More