29 Sep 2016
Why Skills Development? In Asia, a Basic Education is Not Enough Anymore by Sungsup Ra
By Sungsup Ra, Asian Development Bank. In the past three decades, economic growth in Asia has been the envy of the world.... Read More
26 Sep 2016
Calling All Partners: How to Diagnose and Treat Data Gaps that Threaten the Achievement of the Global Education Goals by Luis Crouch
By Luis Crouch, RTI, and Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The gaps in education data have become a recurring theme in... Read More
16 Sep 2016
Making the “Learning Generation” a Reality: Let’s Act on the Education Commission Report by Baela Raza Jamil
By Baela Raza Jamil, Commissioner for the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (The Education Commission) Gulalai Ahmadzai, just short of... Read More
12 Sep 2016
Digitisation and the School by Mike Douse
By Mike Douse, Freelance International Educational Consultant. Over four decades ago, as Foundation Director of Australia’s Disadvantaged Schools Program, along with my... Read More
07 Sep 2016
The Privatisation of Education: a Global Phenomenon with Multiple Faces by Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila and Adrián Zancajo
By Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila and Adrián Zancajo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Education privatisation has become an important topic in the global... Read More
25 Aug 2016
The Governance of Education and Training: Agenda 2030 and Beyond by Radu Barua, Laetitia Houlmann and Velibor Velibor Jakovleski
By Radu Bârză (NORRAG), Laetitia Houlmann (consultant), Velibor Jakovleski (NORRAG). Understanding the shifting nature of governance in education and training (GET) is... Read More
18 Aug 2016
The Roles and Responsibilities of Non-State Actors: The Case of Education and Training by Ezgi Yildiz
By Ezgi Yildiz, Graduate Institute, Geneva, and NORRAG Intern. As the separation between ‘public’ and ‘private’ is increasingly getting blurred, the state-centric... Read More
10 Aug 2016
UNESCO Institute for Statistics Charts a Course to Monitor the Education 2030 Agenda by Silvia Montoya
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Dankert Vedeler, Co-Chair of SDG Education 2030 Steering Committee. Can the... Read More
08 Aug 2016
China and the Global Governance of Education and Training by Xiulan Wan
By Xiulan Wan, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China Some reflections on China’s role and positioning: Representatives from developing countries, including China, are... Read More
03 Aug 2016
The Governance of Education and Training Agenda 2030 and Beyond: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa by Peliwe Lolwana
By Peliwe Lolwana, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. As the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pick up from where the Millennium Development Goals... Read More