VET Africa 4.0: Integrating Community Research Praxis
This article was written by David Monk, Centre for Community Based Research and Lifelong Learning, Faculty of Education and Humanities, Gulu University; Palesa Molebatsi, Centre for...
Author: Simon McGrath
The limits of VET inclusion in Africa (The VET Africa 4.0 project)
This blog was written by Fran Abrams, Chief Executive at the Education Media Centre, Jo-Anna Russon, Research Fellow, VET Africa 4.0, and Simon McGrath, UNESCO Chair in International...
Skills for Human Development
This blog was written by Simon McGrath and Lesley Joy Powell, authors of the new book, ‘Skills for Human Development: Transforming Vocational Education and Training’, published by...
An opportunity to meet and check we have been heading in the right direction
Simon McGrath reflects on the Conference theme and what we might expect in September. Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development This year’s UKFIET Conference takes place two years...
What does the UK Aid Strategy mean for education and development?
The UK Government has released a new aid strategy. That is, a government-wide strategy for aid, not a DFID strategy. The potential advantages and disadvantages of this have been raised...
A Post-2015 Skills Sub-Goal: Confusion still Reigns
The most recent UKFIET-DfID discussion on Post-2015 goals for education, co-convened and hosted by ODI, well captured the richness of the challenges inherent in the larger project of...
Skills for Work and Life: Towards a Transformative Approach
A week after the release of the UN HLP Report and its VET goal, I was in Paris to present at UNESCO my thoughts on what their ambitious, but still to be fleshed out, notion of transforming...
How long does a policy take?
One of my tasks this week was writing a review of further education and training in South Africa as one of the many background papers for the Presidency’s forthcoming twenty year...