It’s January and time for the annual Education World Forum (EWF, Monday January 21), with its influential audience of ministers of education from across the world, that heralds a ‘BETT Week’ that attracts more than 30,000 visitors to London to find out how the latest technologies...
Jan
13
2016
The constant change
In almost every country globally, there is rapid change occurring to what education is and will be, based on both the desire to produce or uphold economic growth and the constant development of new technologies. At the same time, our traditional systems for education are equally...
Sep
24
2015
Q&A with Andrew Graley
Tell us about yourself I’m from Liverpool and was born a few streets away from the famous Anfield ground of Liverpool Football Club. My wife Karen is also from Liverpool and most of our family are still there. We love to spend time with our nieces and nephews, and...
Sep
22
2015
Mary Lenehan chats to Karl Zarhuber
Mary Lenehan, Education Fast Forward’s Chief Operating Officer chats to Karl Zarhuber. Karl will be joining EFF for the first time. Karl works for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and will be joining from Vienna. MARY: Can you tell us a little about yourself?...
May
06
2015
So you are a policy maker and you want to engineer a big shift in learning in schools to embrace “21st Century Skills” – how do you do it?
My starting point is always the same – teaching. This is the bedrock of a good education and any successful reform must start with classroom practice and what would motivate and enable pedagogy to successfully change. Some jurisdictions and ministers think just telling teachers what to...
Apr
29
2015
The work place a person will be entering into, after 14 or more years of education, is highly unpredictable and fast changing. How do educators successfully equip individuals to enter the work force?
Today’s 6 year old, starting school, will be entering the work force in 15 to 18 years time; can even the most clairvoyant of us predict what will be expected by employers then in terms of skills, abilities, attitudes, ethics? The work place is changing at...
Sep
23
2014
Questions for the EFF debate #11 – Mobile learning for the masses
On the Education Fast Forward debate students from Conway High School in South Carolina pulled together a list of questions on Mobile Learning. Please take a few minutes to respond to the questions and we will collate all the answers and forward onto the students. How...
Aug
31
2014
Using Data
In the beginning… I remember very clearly back in the early 1990s the joy of using email for the first time to communicate with my colleagues. The days of hand written memos being sent around in brown envelopes or placed in pigeon holes slowly became a...
Jul
19
2013
Blog Post: Better Skills, Better Lives, Better Jobs
Special Advisor on Education Policy to OECD’s Secretary-General. He also provides strategic oversight over OECD’s work on the development and utilisation of skills and their social and economic outcomes. This includes the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), the...
Sep
20
2011
Education Fast Forward on Relevance in (and of) Education
With two rich and interesting debates under its belt already, Education Fast Forward is, as its name would suggest, making great strides – and the third debate is coming up on September 26th, which I will be chairing. The debates, jointly sponsored by Promethean and Cisco,...