Great Buys, Good Buys, and Bad Buys
In this NORRAG Highlights, Joel Samoff, Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg looks at the World Bank’s business of providing policy advice...
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Tag: World Bank
Opinion: The World Bank shouldn’t be setting global goals for education
This blog was written by David Archer and originally published on the Devex website on 25 October 2019. David is Head of Participation and Public Services at ActionAid, having...
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Learning matters – reactions to the World Development Report 2018
In this video, Keith Lewin, Emeritus Professor of International Development and Education at the University of Sussex, and Chair of the UKFIET Board of Trustees, shares his...
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Learning Matters and the World Development Report 2018
This blog was written by Keith M Lewin, Chair of the UKFIET Board of Trustees, Emeritus Professor of International Development and Education at the University of Sussex “Learning...
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Anatomy of an #EduCrisis: Whose responsibility?
Summary of UKFIET discussion on World Development Report and Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report This blog was written by Dr Caine Rolleston, UCL Institute of Education, who...
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Whose crisis? Taking responsibility for global education
Recommendations for action from the World Development Report 2018 and 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report Wednesday 24th January 2018 10.30am to 1pm Friends House,...
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A Goal on Skills? What the Skills GMR does and doesn’t tell us about a post-2015 goal
November 15th saw the UK launch of the latest Global Monitoring Report, this year on youth and skills. Given the GMR was released at a time when the post-2015 global development...
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The Role of the Commonwealth in Supporting Education
2012 has seen Ministerial Task-Force proposals on ways for restructuring the Commonwealth Secretariat command the attention of stakeholders across all Commonwealth education...
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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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