Pod - Policy and governance

Professor Simon McGrath

Professor of International Education and Development, Associate Head of School, Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Nottingham

Simon is Professor in International Education and Development in the Centre for International Education Research, University of Nottingham. He is also Director of the Nottingham UNEVOC Centre and the Academic Lead for the University's Sustainable Development Research Priority Area. He is Chair of the United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET), a body that brings together universities, NGOs and consultancies working on international education and training issues to engage with national and international policies. Previously he was Director of the Human Resources Development Research Programme of the South African Human Sciences Research Council and remains a research associate of the HSRC. Simon has engaged in policy advice and evaluation research for a range of national and international organisations and is currently most active in work for DFID, UNESCO and the Commonwealth Secretariat. As well as this theoretical component, he is working with UNESCO at the global policy level and in trying to develop a new approach to institutional evaluation. Simon has smaller projects on the internationalisation of higher education in small island states, with a case study of the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, and research partnerships and intercultural methodologies in Fiji. The latter is funded by the British Academy and is a partnership with the Universities of the South Pacific and Bristol. 

To view Simon's work and further information please see his institutional profile.

A VET reform update - ASQA, Victoria, and progress on implementing the Joyce Review [Australia]
(Source: Claire Field and Associates, November 2019)

On Vocational Reform in New Zealand with Shaun Gear, MOE
(Source: The Edtech Podcast, December 2019)

European skills index
(Source: Cedefop, March 2020)