03 Sep 2015
Calling Time on the MDGs By Maggie Black
By Maggie Black, writer and editor on international social issues. Fifteen years ago, the UN’s member states committed themselves to a dramatic... Read More
31 Aug 2015
Technology for Sustainable Development: Towards Innovative Value Driven Solutions By Joost Monks
By Joost Monks, NORRAG, Geneva. On 8 July 2015, at the United Nations Headquarters, the UN Academic Impact Initiative (UNAI)[1] and Amrita University[2] (India)... Read More
27 Aug 2015
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Education and Decent Work By Myles A Wickstead
By Myles A Wickstead, the Open University and King’s College London, advisor to Hand in Hand International and Honorary Vice-President of VSO.... Read More
25 Aug 2015
Skills Development vs. TVET vs. Education vs. Work: Who is the Winner after Shanghai, Incheon and Kuala Lumpur Conferences? By Michel Carton
By Michel Carton, NORRAG. The participants[1] at the 3rd International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) (May 2012) adopted... Read More
12 Aug 2015
NORRAG NEWS 52: Reflections on the World Education Forum / Financing Education and Skills By NORRAG
By NORRAG. The August 2015 issue of NORRAG News (NN) – NN52 – covers two topics: It contains 13 articles that reflect... Read More
06 Aug 2015
Drifting Basis for International Norms in the 3rd Financing for Development Conference By Zhang Chun
By Zhang Chun, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. The 3rd Financing for Development (FfD) conference has just concluded (July 16th 2015) and... Read More
03 Aug 2015
Quality Education – at all Levels – for Everyone? Education in the Outcome Document on Post-2015 Development Goals By NORRAG
By NORRAG. Yesterday the Outcome Document of the September 2015 UN Summit to adopt the post-2015 development agenda, Transforming Our World: The... Read More
30 Jul 2015
Do Teacher Incentives Improve Learning Outcomes? By Silvia Montoya
By Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Jordan Naidoo, UNESCO Over the past decade, many countries have increased their spending... Read More
27 Jul 2015
Measurement Fetishism By Steven Klees
By Steven Klees, University of Maryland. At my first university job, in the early 1970s, a professor whose expertise was statistics and... Read More
23 Jul 2015
What Happened to Education in the Financing for Development Conference, 13-16 July 2015, Addis Ababa? By Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, Editor NORRAG News. What was the Education angle in the Financing for Development (FFD) Conference? Did the FFD Conference... Read More