David Archer is Head of Public Services with ActionAid, having been Head of Education for many years. He is a co-founder of the Global Campaign for Education and Chair of the Board of the Right to Education Initiative. He is presently the Stakeholder Convenor for the Finance Action Track preparing for Transforming Education Summit.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 27 June 2022 Transforming the financing of education
David Archer
Faced with an education timebomb, in September, Presidents and Prime Ministers will gather in New York for an unprecedented Transforming Education Summit . Never before have Heads of State been convened to focus their attention exclusively on education, but this is now truly urgent as progress towards globally agreed education...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2 October 2020 #WorldTeachersDay | Lessons from the Pandemic: “Teachers and the Public Sector Wage Bill”, by David Archer.
David Archer
The IMF is 75 years old but still has a lot to learn. They need a well trained professional teacher to explain some basic truths. You can’t commit to ambitious development goals and then impose austerity. You can’t constrain public sector wage bills and then worry that countries have shortages...
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Equity and inclusion 29 April 2020 “Transforming economies and the financing of public education post-COVID”, by David Archer.
David Archer
Public health and public education systems that have been underfunded for a generation are being overwhelmed by COVID-19. We are just now beginning to see the scale of the impact this will have on low income countries and on girls and women in particular. Much of the burden of caring...
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Union renewal and development 25 January 2018 #EI25: Reflections by David Archer, ActionAid
David Archer
My first memory of meeting with Education International was in October 1999 – when ActionAid, Oxfam and the Global March for Child Labour met in Brussels to set up the Global Campaign for Education. That was a landmark moment – forging links between EI’s campaign on quality public education, Oxfam’s...
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Leading the profession 15 December 2017 The new compact on domestic financing for education
David Archer
The replenishment events of major global funds tend to be donor-dominated affairs, but on 2nd February 2018 the replenishment of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) promises to be different. For the first time ever a replenishment conference will take place in Africa – hosted by Senegal – and on...
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Worlds of Education 10 November 2016 Why Teachers Need Tax
David Archer
The Sustainable Development Goal on education establishes ambitious targets and to finance the achievement of these, we need a radical shift, a rebuilding of confidence in the capacity of the governments to fully finance public education that is of good quality – and that can only come from a substantial...
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Worlds of Education 23 February 2015 The clash of education visionsThe clash of education visions
David Archer
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Worlds of Education 3 February 2014 Critical Reflections on the Learning Metrics Task ForceCritical Reflections on the Learning Metrics Task Force
David Archer
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Worlds of Education 13 October 2013 Should Public Money Be Used for Private Schools?Should Public Money Be Used for Private Schools?
David Archer