06 May 2014
The Central Role of Teachers in the GMR2013-14 By Beatrice Avalos-Bevan
By Beatrice Avalos-Bevan, University of Chile, Santiago. Teachers have never been absent in the past Global Monitoring Reports, especially in the Quality... Read More
30 Apr 2014
Who Owns Learning? By Hugh McLean
By Hugh McLean, Open Society Foundations, London. Teaching about learning and learning about teaching I worked for an NGO in South Africa... Read More
28 Apr 2014
New Pedagogy, Old Practice: Conflicts of Culture in Teaching and Learning By Ruth Naylor
By Ruth Naylor, CfBT, Reading. Working as a teacher in Tanzania at the turn of the millennium, I was struck by the... Read More
10 Sep 2013
Post-1990; Post-2000; Post-2015 – Education and Skills – North & South
By Kenneth King, NORRAG. The 12th UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development opens today covering the topic of education and... Read More
09 Sep 2013
Education Aid and the “Transformative Shifts” Called for by the Post-2015 Agenda
By Birger Fredriksen, Consultant, formerly World Bank. The report of the High-level Panel (HLP) on the Post-2015 Development Agenda concludes that this... Read More
29 May 2013
Future Education - Global Mega -Trends and the Post-2015 Agenda for Education
By Desmond Bermingham, Save the Children. Global ‘mega-trends’ are having an impact on education: Slowing population growth and an ageing population; the... Read More
16 May 2013
NORRAG News 48 on "2012: The Year of Global reports on TVET, Skills & Jobs - Consensus or Diversity?" NOW ONLINE
This issue of NORRAG News looks at the many different meanings of skill in these reports: high, medium, low, foundation, transferable, technical... Read More
10 May 2013
The UNESCO World TVET Report
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. Amidst the current wave of international reports on skills, the most striking aspect of the Shanghai... Read More
02 May 2013
The Meaning of Skills in Global Reports
Peliwe Lolwana, University of Witswatersrand The sudden interest in skills development by global and large research agencies is contributing to a very... Read More
29 Apr 2013
If Data is Not Wisdom, then Non-Data Certainly is Not
Karina Veal, Asian Development Bank. Where hide the wise answers to questions vexing TVET policy makers and practitioners in developing countries today?... Read More