18 May 2016
The Education Cannot Wait Fund: Imperfect, but a Great Start in an Imperfect World By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, University of Nottingham and NORRAG. The Education Cannot Wait Fund is a positive step in the right direction, but... Read More
09 May 2016
Weak Institutional Capacity: A Growing Barrier to Reaching the Education Sustainable Development Goal in sub-Saharan Africa By Birger Fredriksen
By Birger Fredriksen, Results for Development Institute. A blog posted on April 27th on NORRAG NEWSbite reflected on the massively increased funding... Read More
06 May 2016
How to Bridge the Skills Gap? The Scientific Benefits of Old-Fashioned Drill By Helen Abadzi
By Helen Abadzi, College of Education, University of Texas at Arlington In 2014, a television show in the United Kingdom, “The Apprentice”,... Read More
27 Apr 2016
Funding Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can the Momentum be Maintained During the Current Economic Slowdown? By Birger Fredriksen
By Birger Fredriksen, Results for Development Institute. The impact of good quality education on a country’s economic growth is now quite well understood.... Read More
21 Apr 2016
International Organizations and the Setting of Educational Agendas: The Case of the Arab Regional Agenda for Improving Educational Quality By Clara Morgan
By Clara Morgan, UAE University There is growing interest among scholars in understanding the internationalization of domestic policy and the important role... Read More
14 Apr 2016
Reflections from Geneva – Vocational Education in the Context of Violence Extremism By Tara Noronha
By Tara Noronha, Mercy Corps. A few weeks ago, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) – supported by NORRAG –... Read More
11 Apr 2016
Countering Violent Extremism – can Education and Vocational Training Play a Role? By Martine Zeuthen
By Martine Zeuthen, The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). European specialists in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) and education programming gathered in Geneva... Read More
07 Apr 2016
Preventing Violent Extremism: What Role for Education and Training?
By Laetitia Houlmann, Consultant SDC Education Network and Aude Mellet, NORRAG Sadly, a more than topical issue Even if it’s not a... Read More
05 Apr 2016
Thinking about the Education Think Tank Phenomenon By Velibor Jakovleski
By Velibor Jakovleski, NORRAG and the Graduate Institute, Geneva. Gone are the days when the main sites of knowledge production were universities... Read More
22 Mar 2016
China’s New Pledges with Africa: 2016-2018 Multi-dimensional Support to Human Resource Development? By Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, Editor NORRAG News. President Xi Jinping’s opening speech to the FOCAC Summit of December 2015 in Johannesburg had ‘five major pillars’, ‘three bottleneck... Read More