Educating the Poor: Social Entrepreneur Style
By Karina Veal, Asian Development Bank. In common with the best international schools, Year 10 students at the school established in... Read More
Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: Open Working Group Discussion Today - 17th June
By Karen Mundy, University of Toronto and CIES. The intergovernmental Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) called for in... Read More
Post-2015 Development Agenda: the Devil will be in the Details
By Alexandra Draxler, former UNESCO education specialist. The proposals of the High-Level Panel on Post-2015 are now on the table in... Read More
Skills, Work and Development: Initial Reactions to the High Level Panel’s Post-2015 Vision
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. My overall sense of the HLP proposals is a positive one, notwithstanding my wider scepticism about... Read More
Thank Goodness! Education has Made it to the Finishing Line in the Global Post-2015 High Level Panel Olympics
By Kenneth King, NORRAG and University of Edinburgh. Relief all round!! The report of the High Level Panel (HLP) on... Read More
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
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
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
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
Don’t Get Lost – Focus on Quality
Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University. UNESCO has done both a service and a disservice to those concerned about global development. GMR 2012,... Read More