14 Oct 2013
Funding Global Public Goods in the Education Sector: A Growing Challenge
By Raymond Wanner and Birger Fredriksen, Members of IIEP’s Governing Board. The importance of the issues dealt with by this year’s United... Read More
19 Sep 2013
Business, As Usual, Distorts Education (Part II)
By Steven Klees, University of Maryland. In Part I, I argued that neoliberalism’s narrow focus on business and the market system... Read More
18 Sep 2013
Business, As Usual, Distorts Education (Part I)
By Steven Klees, University of Maryland. Capitalism became a global force centuries ago. But for most of its history, there was... Read More
12 Sep 2013
The Post-2015 Debates and the Challenges for the International Education and Development Research Community
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. As the end date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches so the focus on goals,... 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
04 Sep 2013
Lifelong Learning in a Learning Society – Making it Happen by Building Partnerships
By Manzoor Ahmed, BRAC University. An old idea highlighted by the Faure Commission in the 1970s, has gained new relevance in... Read More
28 Aug 2013
Undoing Myths about Teacher Education Effects and Protecting New Teachers as they Begin to Teach
By Beatrice Avalos-Bevan, University of Chile. In different geographical contexts one often finds sweeping statements about teachers that are not always... Read More
23 Aug 2013
Education, Knowledge and Evidence in the Post-2015 High-Level Panel Report: Utopian, Poetic or Technocratic? All Three! (Part 3)
[read part 1 and part 2 of this blog post here] PART III: Data for whom and by whom: a technocratic revolution?... Read More
22 Aug 2013
Education, Knowledge and Evidence in the Post-2015 High-Level Panel Report: Utopian, Poetic or Technocratic? All Three! (Part 2)
[read part 1 of this blog post here] PART II: Education and Training: on the change curve or the mainstream one?... Read More
21 Aug 2013
Education, Knowledge and Evidence in the Post-2015 High-Level Panel Report: Utopian, Poetic or Technocratic? All Three! (Part 1)
PART I: From Utopia and Poesy to Reality By Michel Carton, NORRAG. [note: all page numbers refer to pages in the HLP... Read More