{"id":6094,"date":"2014-09-03T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2014-09-03T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:04:06","slug":"another-policy-slogan-anyone-global-competence-is-heading-right-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/09\/03\/another-policy-slogan-anyone-global-competence-is-heading-right-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Another policy slogan anyone?  'global competence' is heading right for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an extract from the latest e-message from\u00a0<em>Think Global\u2019s<\/em> Chief Executive, Tom Franklin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As you may know, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will be including \u2018Global Competence\u2019 in its \u2018PISA\u2019 international measurement of different countries\u2019 education achievements. \u00a0PISA gets a lot of attention in education circles \u2013 with much commentary on why some countries appear to perform better than others. \u00a0I think it is an exciting development that \u2018global competence\u2019 is being recognised as a key aspect of young peoples\u2019 education, and it is bound to create more focus on the skills, values and knowledge that make up global competence. \u00a0But a key issue will be: how to define global competence, and how to measure it across different countries\u2019 education systems. \u00a0I\u2019m quite excited to be part of an international reference group which will be helping to review the criteria as they are developed. \u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating. \u00a0Well, good luck with defining out all the contradictions in what is just\u00a0another compound policy slogan. \u00a0As I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/06\/26\/global-learning-is-about-the-economy-after-all\/\">noted<\/a> back in June, in a comment on a Think Global breakfast debate, it seems that such competences are all really\u00a0about boosting the economy. \u00a0This will be a relief to the OECD \u2013 and to Pearson, whose invisible hand is pulling all the strings here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an extract from the latest e-message from\u00a0Think Global\u2019s Chief Executive, Tom Franklin: As you may know, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will be including \u2018Global Competence\u2019 in its \u2018PISA\u2019 international measurement of different countries\u2019 education...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}