Funding Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can the Momentum be Maintained During the Current Economic Slowdown? By Birger Fredriksen
By Birger Fredriksen, Results for Development Institute. The impact of good quality education on a country’s economic growth is now quite well understood.... Read More
Emerging Donor Finance to Technical and Vocational Education and Training By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, NORRAG. Anyone that has tried to explore the nature of DAC donor support to technical and vocational education and... Read More
Syria Donors Conference: A ‘Vision of Hope’ for the Next School Year? By Hiba Salem
By Hiba Salem, University of Cambridge. “Never has the global community raised so much money in a day”, states Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,... Read More
Why the Syria Donors Conference Matters Globally By Hiba Salem
By Hiba Salem, University of Cambridge. With Syria entering its sixth year of conflict, the Syria Donors Conference – scheduled for 4th... Read More
Refugees, Displaced Persons and Education: New Challenges for Development and for Policy
When the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) of 2011 focused on The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education, its focus... Read More
What does the UK Aid Strategy mean for Education and Development? By Simon McGrath
By Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham. The UK Government has released a new aid strategy. That is, a government-wide strategy for aid,... Read More
The Need for an SDG Demonstration in Education: Why Wait Till 2030? By Steven J. Klees
By Steven J. Klees, University of Maryland. The recently approved United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for education, like all the SDGs,... Read More
Without a Proper Financing Plan, Let’s Kiss the Education SDG Good Bye By Charles Aheto-Tsegah
By Charles Aheto-Tsegah, National Council for /Curriculum and Assessment, Ghana. Special gratitude to Burnett and Upadhyay for drawing attention to the essential... Read More
Drifting Basis for International Norms in the 3rd Financing for Development Conference By Zhang Chun
By Zhang Chun, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. The 3rd Financing for Development (FfD) conference has just concluded (July 16th 2015) and... Read More
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
