Author Archives: Patricia Rogers

Getting the facts straight on youth unemployment rates

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Patricia Rogers

Old mistake in today’s article on European responses to austerity measures – here, as reported by Karen Kissane in The Age in Melbourne: Meanwhile, in Greece, a country spiralling into poverty with more than half of its young people unemployed, … Continue reading →

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Strategies for improving the quality of evaluation – the independent evaluation advisor

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Patricia Rogers

How can we improve the quality of evaluations – especially evaluations that are done by external evaluators of evaluation teams? Improving the procurement process is an important part of this, as Jane has recently discussed (9 hot tips for commissioning, … Continue reading →

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Time is ticking away to submit proposals for the AEA conference, 24-27 October, Minneapolis

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Patricia Rogers

[UPDATE: Proposals closed at midnight EST Friday 16 March for the American Evaluation Association conference in Minneapolis. As a community service we provided a countdown clock to the deadline.] Check the conference information pages for information about proposal types, including … Continue reading →

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No silver bullet – increased funding for schools

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Patricia Rogers

This is likely to be one of a continuing series highlighting the weaknesses of policy debates which talk about particular interventions or policy options in terms of a ‘silver bullet’ which can deliver the intended impacts without any help from … Continue reading →

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Occupy Valentine’s Day and Genuine Evaluation

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Patricia Rogers

It is timely to consider ‘Occupy Valentine’s Day‘, which calls on us to reject the increasingly stereotyped rituals of Valentine’s Day and instead celebrate all forms of love in ways that are affirming, inclusive and uplifting: Celebrating love is wonderful … Continue reading →

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