24 Sep 2014
Back to the 'Vocational Education' Drawing Board: Do we Need Some Serious Re-visioning? By Salim Akoojee
By Salim Akoojee, South Africa and Hong Kong. An August 2014 article in the Economist referred to the vocational sector as being... Read More
22 Sep 2014
The Post-2015 EFA Agenda: UNESCO and the New Global Education Network By Maren Elfert
By Maren Elfert, University of British Columbia. The run-up to the next round of Education for All (EFA) and development goals lends... Read More
10 Sep 2014
Beyond Armed Conflict and Emergency: the Role of Education and Training in Tackling Urban Violence By Jovana Carapic and Luisa Phebo
By Jovana Carapic, and Luisa Phebo, Conflict, Violence, Education and Training (CVET) Programme, NORRAG. Urban spaces are going to be the locus... Read More
08 Sep 2014
Lessons From Chengdu (2): The Political Economy of Learning Metrics By Trey Menefee
By Trey Menefee , Hong Kong Institute of Education I argued in my previous NORRAG blog post, Lessons From Chengdu: The Case... Read More
04 Sep 2014
Lessons From Chengdu: The Case For ‘Open-Source’ Learning Metric Methods By Trey Menefee
By Trey Menefee, Hong Kong Institute of Education. A few years ago I tried to learn a research technique called Agent-Based Modeling... Read More
26 Aug 2014
The Post-2015 Agenda: Examining the Youth Perspective and their Partnership Potential By Nayantara Naik
By Nayantara Naik, Freelance International Education Consultant, New York, New York. At sixteen, I attended a National Student Leadership Conference in Washington,... Read More
14 Aug 2014
The Challenges of Implementing Assessment to Improve Learning – the Latest Report from the Learning Metrics Task Force By Rukmini Banerji
By Rukmini Banerji, Pratham and Learning Metrics Task Force. As is common on hot summer afternoons in villages in India, a man... Read More
04 Aug 2014
Rebalancing Progress in Education: How to Deliver on Improvements in Access and Quality? By Leni Wild, ODI
By Leni Wild, ODI. Rather than a sole focus on financing education and the debate over how much money is needed, Leni Wild suggests... Read More
31 Jul 2014
From Government to Governance: Reflections on Global Education Governance and the Global South by Barbara Trudell
By Barbara Trudell, SIL Africa. Government is a funny thing. Sometimes it stands as the defender and protector of the vulnerable, and... Read More
28 Jul 2014
Breaking Down the Silos: Learning Knowledge and Skills for Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods By Anna Robinson-Pant
By Anna Robinson-Pant, University of East Anglia. As a researcher in literacy, gender and development, I was excited to have the opportunity... Read More