05 Nov 2012
How Shadow Education can Undermine the EFA Goals: The Expansion and Implications of Private Tutoring
By Mark Bray, University of Hong Kong. Private supplementary tutoring is commonly called shadow education, because it mimics the mainstream. As the mainstream grows, so does the shadow; and as the curriculum changes in the mainstream, so it changes in the shadow. Shadow education did not feature in either the 1990 Jomtien or 2000 Dakar... Read More
30 Oct 2012
The Role of Education and Skills in Any Post-2015 Development Agenda
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer. NORRAG recently submitted written evidence to the UK International Development Committee Inquiry on Post-2015 Development Goals (view full submission), which was based on a NORRAG working paper to be published on NORRAG’s site in mid-January 2013 (see also earlier blog posts on this working paper here and here). Below... Read More
23 Oct 2012
L’après-2015 Au Burkina Faso: Entre Enjeux Nationaux Et Internationaux
Michel Carton, NORRAG et Boubakar Savadogo, Akilia. Si le Burkina Faso s’est rapidement aligné sur les objectifs du Millénaire (OMD) et ceux de l’Education pour tous (EPT) en particulier dans le domaine de l’éducation primaire, et a atteint des résultats significatifs d’un point de vue quantitatif, la situation du pays en matière d’éducation et de... Read More
15 Oct 2012
Baking the Cake after 2015: Do the EFA Goals have the Right Ingredients?
By Alexandra Draxler, former UNESCO education specialist. The 12th September NORRAG workshop on education and skills post 2015 was a wide-ranging discussion on the objectives, actors and levers of the post-2015 agenda. As Simon McGrath pointed out in his earlier post, participants looked at issues related to the universal nature of the goals, development theory... Read More
04 Oct 2012
Education in Conflict Emergencies in Light of the Post-2015 MDGS and EFA Agendas
By Christopher Talbot,consultant in Education in Emergencies. In the increasingly intense international debates surrounding the post-2015 global education agenda, one vital population has been comparatively neglected until now: those affected by conflict-related emergencies. This includes refugees (people who cross an international border fleeing persecution or war), internally displaced persons (IDPs), and those harmed by conflict... Read More
02 Oct 2012
Jobs for Development? Reading the WDR 2013 from a Skills Perspective
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. The 2013 World Development Report from the World Bank makes a powerful argument that jobs need to be brought to the heart of the development debate. In this blog, I want to focus in particularly on the Report’s treatment of the relationship between jobs, skills and development. Whilst coming... Read More
26 Sep 2012
Educational Goals in Latin America: How do ‘Skills’ Enter into this Agenda?
By Claudia Jacinto, IIEP and Institute of Economic and Social Development, Argentina. After several years of discussion, a project entitled “Metas Educativas 2021: la educación que queremos para la generación de los Bicentenarios” (Educational Goals 2021: the education we want for the generation of the Bicentennial) adopted a set of goals and indicators in 2010... Read More
21 Sep 2012
What Can We Learn From the Past 50 Years of Education-for-Development in Africa for the Beyond 2015 Debate?
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. In all the talk about targets beyond 2015, I am particularly concerned about two things. First, that the voices of educationalists regarding the nature of education and its role in development are being reduced to simple soundbites based on overstatement of certain effects of education. Second, that the discussion... Read More
17 Sep 2012
Education and Skills Post-2015: What Education; What Development?
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. There has been a two-part blog [part 1 / part 2] already linked to the 12th September Norrag workshop on education and skills post-2015, but I will try to reflect on some of the key questions that I was left with at the end of the event: What theory... Read More
12 Sep 2012
Debates and Propositions around Education and Skills Post-2015 (part 2)
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer, NORRAG. This is part 2 of a two-part blog series on education and skills post-2015. Read part 1 here. The Success and Failure of Access The education MDGs of universal primary education and gender parity are often said to have been the most successful of the MDGs in terms... Read More