24 Jun 2013
What's Wrong With Low-Cost Private Schools for the Poor?
By Steven Klees, University of Maryland. Right now, there is considerable attention being focused on a growing phenomenon in a number of... Read More
19 Jun 2013
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
17 Jun 2013
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
11 Jun 2013
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
03 Jun 2013
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
31 May 2013
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
29 May 2013
Future Education - Global Mega -Trends and the Post-2015 Agenda for Education
By Desmond Bermingham, Save the Children. Global ‘mega-trends’ are having an impact on education: Slowing population growth and an ageing population; the... Read More
27 May 2013
Technical and Vocational Skills and the Post-2015 Agenda: Let’s Take the Bull by the Horns
By Robert Palmer, Independent Education and Skills Consultant. 2012 saw the release of numerous high level global reports on work and on technical... Read More
16 May 2013
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
10 May 2013
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