27 Aug 2015
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Education and Decent Work By Myles A Wickstead
By Myles A Wickstead, the Open University and King’s College London, advisor to Hand in Hand International and Honorary Vice-President of VSO.... Read More
25 Aug 2015
Skills Development vs. TVET vs. Education vs. Work: Who is the Winner after Shanghai, Incheon and Kuala Lumpur Conferences? By Michel Carton
By Michel Carton, NORRAG. The participants[1] at the 3rd International Congress on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) (May 2012) adopted... Read More
28 May 2015
TVET and Sustainable Development: Learning from Experience. What are we waiting for and why? By Enrique Pieck
By Enrique Pieck, Iberoamerican University, Mexico. Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) policies and programs come and go and so their... Read More
27 Apr 2015
Skills Development in India: a Daunting Task By Indu Grover
By Indu Grover, CCS Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, India. Education and skills, the foundation of human capital formation, are the key driving... Read More
15 Apr 2015
In Search of Sustainable TVSD Financing: It’s Not (Only) About the Money, Money Money By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, NORRAG Technical and vocational skills development (TVSD) spans many domains; in many countries it exists in schools and institutes... Read More
18 Mar 2015
India’s Skills Challenge: Reforming Vocational Education and Training to Harness the Demographic Dividend By Santosh Mehrotra
By Santosh Mehrotra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. The Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) system in India needs to expand very... 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
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
03 Dec 2014
An Open Invitation to the Technical and Vocational Skills Community: It’s Time to Gate-Crash the Post-2015 Party By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, NORRAG. This blog is the third in a series of post-2015 reflection blogs (see blog 1 and 2 here);... Read More
28 Nov 2014
Transfer of the Dual System of Vocational Education to Developing Countries – Help or Hindrance for Development? Reflections from an Austrian Perspective By Margarita Langthaler
By Margarita Langthaler, Austrian Research Foundation for International Development. Currently, there is much talk about why youth unemployment rates in Austria, as... Read More