26 Sep 2012
Educational Goals in Latin America: How do ‘Skills’ Enter into this Agenda?
By Claudia Jacinto, IIEP and Institute of Economic and Social Development, Argentina. After several years of discussion, a project entitled “Metas Educativas... Read More
21 Sep 2012
What Can We Learn From the Past 50 Years of Education-for-Development in Africa for the Beyond 2015 Debate?
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. In all the talk about targets beyond 2015, I am particularly concerned about two things. First,... Read More
17 Sep 2012
Education and Skills Post-2015: What Education; What Development?
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. There has been a two-part blog [part 1 / part 2] already linked to the 12th... Read More
12 Sep 2012
Debates and Propositions around Education and Skills Post-2015 (part 2)
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer, NORRAG. This is part 2 of a two-part blog series on education and skills post-2015. Read... Read More
10 Sep 2012
Debates and Propositions around Education and Skills Post-2015 (part 1)
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer, NORRAG. This is part 1 of a two-part blog series on education and skills post-2015. Read... Read More
07 Sep 2012
Health Professional Education and Training Post-2015
By Erica Wheeler, World Health Organization. The World Health Report of 2006 pointed to the severe shortages of health professionals around the... Read More
03 Sep 2012
Tackling the Python: EFA in East Africa, and Beyond
By Joshua Muskin, Aga Khan Foundation. I had the opportunity a year ago to participate in a meeting of the Ministers of... Read More
24 Aug 2012
Education, Research, and Inter-Generational Poverty: Addressing the Challenges to 2015 and Beyond
By Alison Girdwood, DFID. Over recent years, the scale of resources put into education in developing countries has increased significantly, and is... Read More
20 Aug 2012
India's Approach to the Certification of Vocational Skills
By Rashmi Agrawal, Director,Institute of Applied Manpower Research, India. The skills development and certification system in India has been described as ‘fragmented’... Read More
15 Aug 2012
New Trends in International Cooperation in TVET
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer. Despite the rise in interest in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) world-wide there has... Read More