Coming Full Circle? Reflections on the International Education Agenda for 2015 and Beyond
By Sobhi Tawil, UNESCO. This text summarizes some of the ideas presented at the annual CIES conference (10-15 March 2013) during the... Read More
Brookings, UNESCO and the Post-2015 Metrics Steamboat
By Alexandra Draxler, former UNESCO education specialist. This blog is a reflection on some of the discussion on educational quality post-2015 that... Read More
What Room for Education (and Training) in the Sustainable Development Goals?
By Robert Palmer. It’s great news that the early results of MyWorld indicate that ‘a good education’ is the number one priority... Read More
Recommendations of the Commonwealth Ministerial Working Group on the Post-2015 Development Framework for Education
By Jonathan Penson, Commonwealth Secretariat. Commonwealth Ministers of education recently outlined their vision for education in the new global goals for development,... Read More
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
A Fair Shot at Meeting an Education MDG: Learning Goals for a Post-2015 Agenda
By Amanda Beatty and Lant Pritchett. The UN’s high-level panel on the post-2015 development agenda that met recently in Monrovia has much... Read More
Five Questions about Education and Development post-2015
By Simon McGrath. Following on from earlier posts reflecting on the UKFIET-DfID event in December, I’d like to share five questions that... Read More
Equitable Access to Education: Toward a Post-2015 Agenda
By Lori Heninger. Across the education spectrum, much thinking, writing and advocacy is being undertaken to ensure that education is part of... Read More
Weaving a Stronger Approach to Development: How Education Links our Global Goals
By Anda M. Adams. As the planned end-date of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals in 2015 approaches, the world is a very... Read More
What Learning is Important? How should it be Measured? How can such Measurement Improve Quality?: An Update of the Learning Metrics Task Force
By Kate Anderson Simons. I was pleased to read about the rich discussions NORRAG members are having on education and the post-2015... Read More