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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Tag: MDGs
Proposals on Education Post-2015: Lots of ambition but mind the gaps
This week we launched ODI’s new Future Development Goals Tracker. This is an exciting tool for post-2015 watchers, since it brings all the proposals for future goals together in...
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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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Education and a Human Development and Well Being Supergoal
These thoughts arose during the joint UKFIET DFID Dialogue on Education and Development to 2015 and Beyond event, held on 11 December, 2012 at the Institute of Education, London....
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Education to Fight its Corner for 2015 and Beyond
Two thousand and fifteen approaches. Across multilateral and bilateral agencies, in foundations and research institutions, work is underway to develop new post-2015 frameworks...
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Transforming girls’ education: how do we advance measurements of ‘success’?
The burgeoning discourse on girls’ education in a post-Millennium Development Goal world emphasises rights and quality as fundamental factors to supersede a focus so far on...
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Are Girls overtaking Boys in Education?
According to UNESCO’s 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR), the world has achieved gender parity in enrolment at both primary and secondary levels.  Gender...
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Girls Education – which way forward?
Students from a US based MA course recently asked me why NGOs put too much emphasis on shocking statistics and pictures of girls only while boys from poor and conflict affected...
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Education First, Education Cannot Wait
UN General Secretary’s Education First Initiative For the first time, a UN Secretary-General has made education a priority during their tenure. On 26 September, during the United...
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