Education and development after 2015: setting the goals


Goldilocks revisited: measuring education quality within the post-2015 global framework

Author: Hugh McLean
How not to provide too much information, or too little; how neither to be too universal, nor too specific; how to drive efforts to…

Education MDGs in Mozambique

Author: Arlindo Chilundo
In 2000, during the 55th session of the UN General Assembly, 191 Heads of State and Heads of Government adopted the Millennium Development Declaration…

Alternative sustainable financing of education in Africa: turning the ‘resource curse’ into a blessing

Author: Akemi Yonemura
The past decade has seen remarkable economic growth in Africa with the regional average growth rate over five per cent a year…

Education and sustainable development
in Commonwealth small states

Author: Matthew Hiebert
This year, Plan’s Because I am a Girl report focuses on girls’ education, and is particularly concerned with what happens to girls when they reach adolescence. It will be published on 11 October 2012…

Education for sustainable development:
examples from Commonwealth small states

Author: Terra Sprague
Sustainable development is fast becoming a forerunner in educational policy planning across the globe…

Early childhood education: renewing focus and taking action in the Commonwealth

Author: Kimberley Ochs
A growing body of research has confirmed the developmental benefits of early childhood education…

Using sport and play to achieve educational objectives

Author: Kathryn McCracken and Emma Colucci
As the deadline for the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education for All (EFA) goals nears…

Global goal setting: partnerships and innovative resourcing in education

Author: Allah Bakhsh Malik
It is a truism that the public sector will not be able to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) alone. With regard to…

Nigeria in 2030

Author: Grace Chibiko Offorma
Education is the driver of sustainable development, and curriculum is the vehicle through which educational endeavours are achieved…

Education in 2030:What would education look like in a largely poverty-free world? And how do we get there?

Author: Birgit Brock-Utne
There are many complexities in seeking to answer our given questions. There is first of all the concept of ‘education’…

Education and development in 2030

Author: Jonathan Penson
‘If the trajectory continues, look at the number of people living on a dollar a day by 2030: zero.’ What if this prediction, voiced at…