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...
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Category: Skills
Creating Livelihoods for Girls through Skills Development Interventions – Potential for Innovation
This article was written by Zain ul Abidin, Saba Saeed and Mehak Najam from Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may be global but it is felt most...
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Research methods: Building back better in international education and development research – what to expect from the 2021 UKFIET conference
This article summarises an interview with co-convenors of one of six 2021 UKFIET conference themes: Research methods: Building back better in international education and...
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Adapting for sustainability: taking training of trainers online to continue higher education support
At the mid-point in what should have been a face-to-face workshop to strengthen future facilitators and mentors of course redesign in East African universities, Tabitha Buchner...
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TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) in the times of COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities
This blog was written by World Bank specialists: Margo Hoftijzer, Senior Economist in Education Global Practice; Victoria Levin, Economist in Education Global Practice and a...
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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...
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Education, Skills and International Cooperation: Comparative and Historical Perspectives
By Kenneth King, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and one of the founding members of UKFIET. When I was Distinguished Visiting Professor in the University of...
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21st Century Skills: Upskilling for an Uncertain Future?
This blog was written by Dr Caine Rolleston, Senior Lecturer in education and international development at the University College London Institute of Education (UCL-IOE), and...
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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...
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Conference Sub-theme – The Futures of Development Assistance
The Futures of Development Assistance is one of the Sub-themes at the UKFIET Conference in Oxford, organised by Kenneth King, Simon McGrath and Robert Palmer. Its 8 sessions run...
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AusAID Symposium: Skills Development for Productive Lives in the Pacific
Joining the dots: building the skills Fourteen small island countries of the South Pacific are striving to deliver education and other basic services to their citizens while...
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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...
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