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
09 Apr 2015
Where do the Proposed Education Targets Fall Short? The View of the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015 By NORRAG
By NORRAG. Below we highlight some of the key issues related to education post-2015 raised in the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015... 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
09 Mar 2015
Strengthening International Co-operation in Education By Colin Power
By Colin Power, University of Queensland. There can be no question as to the public and private benefits of education. But education... Read More
02 Mar 2015
The Biggest NGO in Government By David Levesque
By David Levesque, Independent Education Consultant. So said the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his autobiography, of Clare Short’s Department for... Read More
23 Feb 2015
International Benchmarking and Measuring the Quality of Learning By NORRAG
By NORRAG. Current post-2015 proposals for universal goals, targets and indicators, and the mushrooming of global initiatives, meetings and reports, suggest a... Read More
19 Feb 2015
Education as a Stronghold? The Ambiguous Connections between Education, Resilience and Peacebuilding By Mieke T.A. Lopes Cardozo
By Mieke T.A. Lopes Cardozo, University of Amsterdam. The resilience-hype: the new kid on the education-in-emergencies block In a NORRAG blog-post Roger Dale... Read More
16 Feb 2015
The Global Partnership for Education and the Evolution of Engagement in Contexts of Conflict and Fragility By Francine Menashy
By Francine Menashy, University of Massachusetts Boston and Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Official Development Assistance has historically focused on... 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
09 Feb 2015
Global and Asian Perspectives on the Post-2015 Discussion By Shoko Yamada
By Shoko Yamada, Nagoya University, Japan. On January 26th 2015 there was an international symposium entitled “Critical Perspectives on Education and Skills... Read More