14 Oct 2013
Funding Global Public Goods in the Education Sector: A Growing Challenge
By Raymond Wanner and Birger Fredriksen, Members of IIEP’s Governing Board. The importance of the issues dealt with by this year’s United Nations General Assembly should serve as a reminder of the growing importance of global institutions in an increasingly interdependent world. Even relatively small institutions may play important roles. One such institution is The... Read More
07 Oct 2013
Let ‘Children are Enjoying Learning’ be the Paramount Post-2015 Educational Goal
By Mike Douse, Freelance International Educational Consultant.[1] Many contributions to the post-MDG debate embody the well-intentioned yet thoroughly misguided notion that education is all about poverty reduction and material progress. Many participants in that debate take that misconceived stand not as a debatable hypothesis but as a glorious given. They see education as instrumental to... Read More
30 Sep 2013
The Future of Innovative Financing for Education in Fragility
By Christine Smith Ellison, University of Ulster. There are two crucial questions regarding the future of innovative financing in education and fragility which must be addressed: Are we focusing on the wrong countries? Are we focusing on the wrong sector? First a word of context. The shock to the global economic system over the past... Read More
23 Sep 2013
Education, Skills and the Post-2015 Window: Synching Post-MDGs, SDGs and Post-EFA for the Final Countdown
By Robert Palmer, NORRAG NEWSBite. This is NORRAG’s 100th blog. It is also about 100 days since the Post-2015 High Level Panel (HLP) Report. And it’s 2 years and 100 days to the MDG/EFA deadline. This may seem long enough, but the post-2015 window is closing fast. Where are we at with post-2015 education and... Read More
19 Sep 2013
Business, As Usual, Distorts Education (Part II)
By Steven Klees, University of Maryland. In Part I, I argued that neoliberalism’s narrow focus on business and the market system has distorted education through: blaming education for not meeting the needs of business; marketing entrepreneurship instead of creating good jobs; relying on a very limited human capital framework; and making an unrealistic connection... Read More
18 Sep 2013
Business, As Usual, Distorts Education (Part I)
By Steven Klees, University of Maryland. Capitalism became a global force centuries ago. But for most of its history, there was a struggle through which the inequalities and excesses that came along with it were tempered, at least partially, by government interventions. That led, in many countries, to about 50 years of the welfare... Read More
16 Sep 2013
The Right to Education in Situations of Conflict-Affected and Fragile States – a Post-2015 Priority?
By Mieke Lopes Cardozo & Ritesh Shah, University of Amsterdam & University of Auckland. A strong message On her sixteenth birthday on 12 July 2013, Malala Yousafzai stood before a crowd at the United Nations in New York and proclaimed a strong message: “I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can... Read More
12 Sep 2013
The Post-2015 Debates and the Challenges for the International Education and Development Research Community
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. As the end date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches so the focus on goals, visions and policies for development after 2015 becomes ever heightened. However, there has been relatively little engagement by the educational research community in these debates. A former UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education, Burnett,... Read More
10 Sep 2013
Post-1990; Post-2000; Post-2015 – Education and Skills – North & South
By Kenneth King, NORRAG. The 12th UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development opens today covering the topic of education and Development Post 2015. NORRAG is involved in organizing one of the sessions on development goals and development assistance. NORRAG NEWS 49 will be on the theme of ‘Education and Development in the Post-2015... Read More
09 Sep 2013
Education Aid and the “Transformative Shifts” Called for by the Post-2015 Agenda
By Birger Fredriksen, Consultant, formerly World Bank. The report of the High-level Panel (HLP) on the Post-2015 Development Agenda concludes that this agenda needs to be driven by five big, transformative shifts: (i) Leave no one behind; (ii) Put sustainable development at the core; (iii) Transform economies for jobs and inclusive growth; (iv) Build peace... Read More