1. NORRAG-UNDPPost-2015 Politics and Foresight: What room for education?Geneva, 1 June 2012 UNESCOEducation Research and Foresight

2. ‘Post-2015’ and the Future of Education & Training International Education & Development Agendas

3. Education for All (EFA) Framework Goal 1. Expanding and improving early childhood care and education Goal 2. Access to and complete free and compulsory primary education for all. Goal 3. Equitable access for all youth and adults to appropriate learning and life skills programmes. Goal 4. Fifty per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy Goal 5. Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015 Goal 6. Improving all aspects of the quality of education

4. Format & Process: What have we learned since 2000?

5. Approaches to content of post 2015 education agenda 1. ‘Learning metrics’ Focus on effective learning, early reading Research, testing & assessment (World Bank, USAID, Brookings…). 2. Education as ‘enabling factor’ The Future We Want for All (May 2012) UN Task Team on Post-2015 “Knowledge” gaps as development challenge & education as “enabling factor” 3. Education and Global Sustainability (Jan 2012) Resilient People: Resilient Planet: A Future worth choosing Education as priority area of action and explicit recommendations: - universal access to quality secondary education by 2030 - vocational training, retraining & professional development in LLL perspective - curriculum integration of concept of sustainable development/consumption