23 Feb 2015
International Benchmarking and Measuring the Quality of Learning By NORRAG
By NORRAG. Current post-2015 proposals for universal goals, targets and indicators, and the mushrooming of global initiatives, meetings and reports, suggest a... Read More
19 Feb 2015
Education as a Stronghold? The Ambiguous Connections between Education, Resilience and Peacebuilding By Mieke T.A. Lopes Cardozo
By Mieke T.A. Lopes Cardozo, University of Amsterdam. The resilience-hype: the new kid on the education-in-emergencies block In a NORRAG blog-post Roger Dale... Read More
16 Feb 2015
The Global Partnership for Education and the Evolution of Engagement in Contexts of Conflict and Fragility By Francine Menashy
By Francine Menashy, University of Massachusetts Boston and Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Official Development Assistance has historically focused on... Read More
12 Feb 2015
Learning in Africa's Informal Economies, 1965-2015 By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, NORRAG. 50 years ago, in 1965, a young doctoral student called Keith Hart arrived in Ghana to begin his... Read More
09 Feb 2015
Global and Asian Perspectives on the Post-2015 Discussion By Shoko Yamada
By Shoko Yamada, Nagoya University, Japan. On January 26th 2015 there was an international symposium entitled “Critical Perspectives on Education and Skills... Read More
05 Feb 2015
ASER 2014: Engaging Citizens to Measure Learning Outcomes and Spark Change in Pakistan
By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan. Over the past fifteen years, thanks in large part to the Millennium... Read More
30 Jan 2015
Education in Situations of Urban Violence: Examples from Latin America By Jovana Carapic and Luisa Phebo
By Jovana Carapic, and Luisa Phebo, Conflict, Violence, Education and Training (CV-ET) Programme, NORRAG. The world is facing an unprecedented demographic transition:... Read More
27 Jan 2015
Getting to Grips with Institutional Culture to Improve TVET in Developing Countries: Lessons from the UK By Stephen Vardigans
By Stephen Vardigans, Consultant with Cambridge Education. When I started teaching in the UK I felt confident that because I was on... Read More
21 Jan 2015
Seven Muscat Targets for Education and Skills Post-2015: Is there a Case for an 8th? By Alya Mohammed Al Rawahi
By Alya Mohammed Al Rawahi, Independent consultant, Muscat. Should the Muscat Agreement have included another target on education governance and management? In... Read More
19 Jan 2015
Global Governance of Education and Training in the Age of Globalization: The Growing Importance of Cross-Border Externalities of National Education Policies by Birger Fredriksen
By Birger Fredriksen, Consultant, Washington (formerly World Bank). Growing interdependence between countries means that national policies increasingly have impact beyond national borders.... Read More