Measuring the Immeasurable: an exercise in futility?
This blog was written by David Levesque, Independent Education Adviser and ex-DFID Senior Adviser. Why are we trying to measure the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in...
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Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality
CEID SEMINAR SERIES – 2017/18 – SEMINAR 1 Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality Book Launch and Discussion October 26th 2017, 5.30-7pm, UCL...
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Are we on track to achieving inclusive education for all?
Day 2 plenary of UKFIET conference 2017: Told in Tweets Pauline Rose, Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, University of Cambridge and President of BAICE...
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Interview on sub-theme: Assessing Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development
Interview with Rhiannon Moore Co- convenor for sub-theme on Assessing Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development What excites you about this sub-theme? Following the media...
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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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The High Level Panel Report – The Place of Education
A Cautious Welcome The High Level Panel (HLP) Report deserves a cautious welcome on two counts. First, education finds a place in the list of 12 indicative Universal Goals, and...
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Education goals: third time’s the charm?
There’s been much buzz in the global education world of late, with recent events being billed as a kind of ‘final sprint to 2015’. Last week was the high-level Learning for All...
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Recommendations of the Commonwealth Ministerial Working Group on the Post-2015 Development Framework for Education
Commonwealth Ministers of Education met in London in December 2012 and developed recommendations for post-2015 which are now feeding into the UN discussions and wider debates....
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Basic Education Coalition’s Recommendations for Post-2015
A significant opportunity for accelerating progress towards poverty reduction and human well-being will be lost if the post-2015 development agenda does not retain robust...
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Five Questions about Education and Development post-2015
Following on from earlier posts reflecting on the UKFIET-DfID event in December, I’d like to share five questions that I left that discussion with. What is our model of...
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Logging off the Log Frame
Is logging off the log frame enough? Perhaps its time to restart. Last week, I wrote about Supergoals: The current overarching MDG Supergoal is poverty reduction and I proposed...
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DFID Discussion Slides on Education Post-2015
In the context of the challenges faced by education in the existing MDGs (learning, equity, level of schooling etc), what should the content, shape and structure of an education...
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