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“The drama of 2011 will be cuts in state and municipal budgets in the United States” 28 Jan 2011 | 06:36 pm
This is what George Soros said in Davos this week in an interview I saw on CNBC. He went on to say that the issue was “very political”. Soros explained that the republicans wanted to weaken the unions...
Education: everyone’s interest; nobody’s priority? 22 Dec 2010 | 06:49 pm
Two recent events highlighted the dilemma we face as we strive to get priority for education in a time of fiscal constraint. The first was the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Summit of Global Agenda Cou...
Is it time to rethink our strategy? 19 Nov 2010 | 06:03 pm
The global banking crisis hit us more than two years ago – in August 2008. Meeting just a month after the fall of Lehman Brothers, the EI Executive Board foresaw the risks for education funding and ca...
A LITTLE BIT UTOPIAN 3 Nov 2010 | 02:12 pm
“When the untapped potential of a child meets the creative imagination of a teacher, a miracle occurs.”[1] The vocation of teaching is, or ought to be, one of constant renewal. “New thinking, new app...
Education and auto-insurance 20 Jul 2010 | 10:41 pm
‘Why should education be any different than auto-insurance?’ This was the question posed to teacher leaders at a forum in Edmondton, Canada, last week. The question was put by Peter Cowley of the Fras...
The G20 “shrinking agenda”: how the Canadian host gutted the G20 of substance 1 Jul 2010 | 07:24 pm
Unfortunately, the Toronto G20 met our expectations – which were very low! On the Monday before-hand, WTO Director General Pascal Lamy told the ITUC Congress in Vancouver that the summit had a “shrink...
At the G20: Close the financing gap; support qualified teachers 7 Jun 2010 | 02:53 pm
Statement by Bob Harris to the World Economic Forum, Global Redesign Initiative Summit, Doha, 30-31 May 2010 Session on “Rebuild in Depth: Education” If we are to rebuild in depth, we must start wit...
Europe : Facing financial turbulence (and a return of the cloud ?) 7 May 2010 | 04:50 pm
In Rome on Tuesday I joined a TUAC delegation in consultations with the Italian Chair of this year’s OECD Ministerial Council meeting, the OECD Secretary General, and Ambassadors representing the Vice...
Globalization and speculation 20 Apr 2010 | 06:59 pm
Six years ago, at EI’s 4th World Congress in Porto Alegre, Brazil, I had the privilege of introducing the Congress theme: “Education for Global Progress”. I made the point that we tend to assume that ...
