07 Sep 2012
Health Professional Education and Training Post-2015
By Erica Wheeler, World Health Organization. The World Health Report of 2006 pointed to the severe shortages of health professionals around the... Read More
03 Sep 2012
Tackling the Python: EFA in East Africa, and Beyond
By Joshua Muskin, Aga Khan Foundation. I had the opportunity a year ago to participate in a meeting of the Ministers of... Read More
24 Aug 2012
Education, Research, and Inter-Generational Poverty: Addressing the Challenges to 2015 and Beyond
By Alison Girdwood, DFID. Over recent years, the scale of resources put into education in developing countries has increased significantly, and is... Read More
20 Aug 2012
India's Approach to the Certification of Vocational Skills
By Rashmi Agrawal, Director,Institute of Applied Manpower Research, India. The skills development and certification system in India has been described as ‘fragmented’... Read More
15 Aug 2012
New Trends in International Cooperation in TVET
By Kenneth King and Robert Palmer. Despite the rise in interest in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) world-wide there has... Read More
08 Aug 2012
The Busan Discourse on Results, Effectiveness, Impact, and Value for Money: what do they Mean for Emerging Donors?
By Soyeun Kim, University of Leeds & Re-shaping Development Institute, S. Korea. “Over 2,000 delegates are reviewing global progress in improving the... Read More
02 Aug 2012
Whose Development Results Count? By Fred Carden
By Fred Carden, IDRC. “It is not about your project; it is about my country”. This comment was made by a Mauritanian evaluator... Read More
30 Jul 2012
Value for Money in Education
By Chris Winch, Kings College London. The question of ‘Value for Money’ for education is rightly a matter of public concern. In... Read More
23 Jul 2012
Beyond the Impoverishment of Vocational Education and Training for Development
By Simon McGrath. Given this year is seeing both a major rethink of Vocational Education and Training (VET) and of development, it... Read More
16 Jul 2012
Life After 2015: Who is Speaking, and Who is Listening?
By Barbara Trudell, SIL Africa Area. The existence and possible features of a post-2015 global education agenda is the hot topic in... Read More