Initiating Stakeholder Dialogue and Research: Philanthropic and CSR Support for Education in India by Arushi Terway and Nishant Chadha
This post is part of the NORRAG Debates stream on Philanthropy in Education, which follows presentations about and around the Philanthropy in... Read More
Transversal Competencies and their Assessment: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific by Ramya Vivekanandan
By Ramya Vivekanandan, UNESCO Bangkok. In today’s world, there is a growing sense that the real purpose of education is not only... Read More
Pakistan’s Educational Foresight and Alignment with the Education SDG by Sajid Ali
By Sajid Ali, Aga Khan University, Pakistan. If SDG-4 does not want to end up with the same fate as EFA or... Read More
Why Skills Development? In Asia, a Basic Education is Not Enough Anymore by Sungsup Ra
By Sungsup Ra, Asian Development Bank. In the past three decades, economic growth in Asia has been the envy of the world.... Read More
ICTs in Technical and Vocational Skills Development: Reaching the Poorest Populations? By Rao Bhavani and Ajay Balakrishnan
By Rao Bhavani and Ajay Balakrishnan, AMMACHI Labs, Amrita University, India During the last Tech4Dev Conference[1] NORRAG and AMMACHI Labs (Amrita University,... Read More
Vocational Training – Crucial, But Not Everything By Karina Veal
By Karina Veal, Asian Development Bank. “You can’t fix in three months what the education system hasn’t fixed in 12 years,” says... Read More
ASER 2015 Results from Pakistan: Making the Invisible Visible By Sehar Saeed
By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan. The recently launched ASER Report 2015 is a testament to civil society... Read More
Disadvantage at the Starting Gate: Early Childhood Education in Pakistan By Huma Zia Faran
By Huma Zia Faran, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan. The recent upsurge in research on the development of a child’s... Read More
Whose Learning Should be Prioritized? By Sehar Saeed
By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report, Pakistan. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of all-encompassing goals promising... Read More
Technology for Sustainable Development: Towards Innovative Value Driven Solutions By Joost Monks
By Joost Monks, NORRAG, Geneva. On 8 July 2015, at the United Nations Headquarters, the UN Academic Impact Initiative (UNAI)[1] and Amrita University[2] (India)... Read More
