01 Mar 2013
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
26 Feb 2013
Private TVET in Africa: Preserving Traditional Forms Differently - Managing Novel Ones Creatively
By Salim Akoojee. Since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been a growing sense from both national policymakers and international agencies... Read More
25 Feb 2013
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
20 Feb 2013
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
14 Feb 2013
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
12 Feb 2013
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
06 Feb 2013
Beyond Informal and Towards a Science of Learning through Practice
By Stephen Billett. It’s time to reassert the legitimacy and worth of learning through practice. The learning of occupations that serve the... Read More
04 Feb 2013
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
31 Jan 2013
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
28 Jan 2013
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