28 Mar 2013
Post-2015 Agendas: Northern Tsunami, Southern Ripple? The Case of Education and Skills
By Robert Palmer and Kenneth King, NORRAG. The storm is upon us! We carried out an analysis of what looked like the... Read More
18 Mar 2013
The 2013 Human Development Report: education, skills and decent work matter; just don’t ask us what any of these mean!
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. I always read the UNDP Human Development Reports with interest, finding that they combine grand narrative... Read More
06 Mar 2013
Skills Development: Mantra for Many Objectives?
By Shanti Jagannathan, Asian Development Bank. This ADB-Springer book on Skills Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia-Pacific complemented the plethora of... Read More
26 Feb 2013
Private TVET in Africa: Preserving Traditional Forms Differently - Managing Novel Ones Creatively
By Salim Akoojee. Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been a growing sense from both national policymakers and international agencies... Read More
20 Feb 2013
TVE(T?) and the GMR: Counting and Comparing Apples and Oranges
By Robert Palmer, NORRAG, Amman. Low-hanging fruits in the GMR’s TVE indicators Two years ago, in an article in NORRAG News, I... Read More
06 Feb 2013
Beyond Informal and Towards a Science of Learning through Practice
By Stephen Billett. It’s time to reassert the legitimacy and worth of learning through practice. The learning of occupations that serve the... Read More
24 Jan 2013
Policy Transfer in Vocational Skills Development: Dual System and NQF Promises
By Markus Maurer, the Zurich University of Teacher Education. Does the dual system live up to expectations? How do we go beyond... Read More
08 Jan 2013
Global Reports on TVET, Skills Development, Work and Jobs
By Kenneth King, NORRAG & University of Edinburgh. 2012 saw the arrival of a whole cluster of global reports on TVET, Skills,... Read More
02 Jan 2013
2012: The Year of Global Reports on TVET, Skills & Jobs Consensus or diversity? Forthcoming issue of NORRAG NEWS
Ten years after the start of the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report process in 2002, we have finally a Skills GMR entitled: Youth... Read More
19 Nov 2012
Education, Skills and Jobs: Seeing the Global Monitoring Report as part of a Triptych of Reports
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. In the past six months on this site I have blogged both on the May... Read More