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Category Archives: Post-2015 development framework
Writing the Dakar Framework: “the hardest 20 paragraphs of my life”
This is the third in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. In this blog, Maris O’Rourke looks at leadership issues at Dakar and the difficulties of putting pen to … Continue reading
The Dakar process: Substance over politics
This blog looks back to the World Education Conference in Dakar in 2000 from the perspective of Abhimanyu Singh, Director UNESCO, Beijing. In the years leading up to Dakar, Abhimanyu was national EFA coordinator for India, rapporteur for the Asian … Continue reading
The Jomtien Conference in 1990 was a game changer for education
This blog looks back at the start of the EFA movement, from Jomtien, to Dakar, to today. It is the first in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. Svein … Continue reading
Lessons from Dakar
This blog introduces a new series that will take a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. As we reach the 500 day countdown until the end of 2015, this series creates a space for … Continue reading
The new education targets still need fine-tuning
The next few days are crucial for putting finishing touches on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) before they are handed over to the group who will work on the text at September’s United Nations General Assembly. Large substantial changes are likely to … Continue reading
What education do we want for the future?
Qian Tang, PhD, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO and Dr. Nicholas Alipui, Director and Senior Advisor on the Post-2015 development agenda, UNICEF. Today, UNESCO and UNICEF will convene a high-level discussion on the post-2015 education agenda. This event, hosted by the … Continue reading
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How can we measure global citizenship skills post 2015?
In the third of our series of guest blogs on the five proposed outcome-oriented post-2015 global education targets, Bryony Hoskins, senior lecturer at the University of Southampton, looks at the challenges of measuring citizenship knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. In … Continue reading
Aid to education has fallen by 10% since 2010
A new EFA Global Monitoring Report policy paper, Aid reductions threaten education goals shows that aid to education has been on a downward spiral since 2010, putting the achievement of existing and future global education goals at risk. With 250 … Continue reading
The Muscat Agreement: New proposed post 2015 global education goal and targets announced today
A global goal and targets for the post-2015 education agenda, discussed last month at the Global Education For All Meeting in Muscat, Oman, have been announced today. This is the first important step in a process that will culminate at … Continue reading
The challenges and rewards of measuring global learning after 2015
In the second of our guest blogs as part of a series on the five proposed outcome-oriented post-2015 global education targets, Ray Adams of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) examines the challenges involved in reaching agreement on how … Continue reading
