28 Nov 2016
Education, Training and Agenda 2030: What Progress One Year On? By NORRAG
By NORRAG. What has actually transpired globally, regionally and nationally since the education and other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were confirmed in... Read More
02 Nov 2016
Did EFA Leadership and the Global Monitoring Report Contribute to UNESCO’s Legitimacy during 2000-2015? By D. Brent Edwards Jr
By D. Brent Edwards Jr., University of Hawaii. With regard to its work in education, UNESCO came into the 2000s hoping to... Read More
24 Oct 2016
Aligning Key Initiatives in Monitoring Learning by Luis Crouch and Silvia Montoya
By Luis Crouch, RTI, and Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. In a recent blog on this site, we noted that there... Read More
10 Oct 2016
Innovative Financing for Education: Interesting Ideas or Actionable in Education 2030? By Saba Saeed
By Saba Saeed, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Pakistan. Despite the fact that education has been slow to embrace innovations compared to the other sectors,... 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
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
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
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
21 Jul 2016
Can the Measurement of Learning Outcomes Lead to Quality Education for All? By Pablo Zoido, Michael Ward, Kelly Makowiecki, Lauren Miller, and Catalina Covacevich
By Pablo Zoido (former OECD), Michael Ward, Kelly Makowiecki, Lauren Miller, Catalina Covacevich (OECD) This is one of the complex questions that... Read More