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 Some more developments in UK development funding, an issue we looked at in a post a few weeks ago. Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute for Development Studies has an interesting article in the Guardian in response to David Cameron’s statements on international aid. The best ways to deliver overseas aid are often not Read the whole post –> The risks of focusing on the easy-to-measure  Many thanks to Michael Quinn Patton for sending us through this gem (from the New York Times) about a rather interesting essay exam for selecting graduate students into All Souls College in Oxford, England. Read the whole post –> Oxford admissions essay: “simple, yet devilish” … An evaluation aptitude test? Public reporting is an important part of genuine evaluation. But is there a risk that programs with long-term outcomes will receive less support than they deserve? The latest developments in the British Government’s move for more transparency. . Read the whole post –> How can transparency efforts adequately report on long-term and hard to measure results? When a large and expensive evaluation fails to produce useful results, it’s worth seeing if at least it can be useful as a cautionary tale. Blueprint is a UK Government-funded drugs education programme consisting of five components: drug education in schools (for 11 and 12-year-olds – this was the main emphasis), drug education for Read the whole post –> £6 million over 5 years – and STILL no genuine evaluation of Blueprint? |
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