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Columbia University, 24 September 2015On September 24, one day before the UN General Assembly adopted&#160;the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Professor Gilles Carbonnier, DevPol’s editor-in-chief, participated in a panel&#160;on Research and Teaching in the post-2015 Era.&#160;The event—co-organised by NORRAG, Teachers College (Columbia University) and the Graduate Institute, Geneva—aimed at discussing in depth the&#160;changes that are likely to occur&#160;in education and training as a consequence of the adoption of the new development agenda. More than 160 participants attended the debate&#160;that took place at Teachers College, in New York, and was co-sponsored by the&#160;Steinhardt&#160;School of Education, New York University, the Open Society Foundations.The list of speakers&#160;featured:&#160;Michael Gerber, ambassador and special envoy for sustainable development of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Peliwe Lolwana, from the Centre for Researching Education and Labour, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa;&#160;Gita Steiner-Khamsi of Teachers College; Dana Burde from New York University;&#160;Noah Sobe, vice-president of Comparative and International Education Society; and&#160;Aleesha Taylor, Open Society Foundations, New York.In his address, Professor&#160;Carbonnier welcomed the «&#160;revival of education&#160;» in the international development agenda after a few years during which it had fallen out of the radar.&#160;He then&#160;stressed&#160;the tension—central in DevPol’s special issue on Education, Learning, Training—between education as a human right and as a strategic tool in support of economic growth. He finally supported the idea of creating a «&#160;Global Fund for Education&#160;», which could trigger&#160;the same dynamism shown by&#160;the&#160;health sector in the last few years with regard to funding mechanisms.&#160;Watch Professor Carbonnier’s full intervention&#160;below.[embed]https://vimeo.com/141062015[/embed]&#160;