Event Highlights: NORRAG at the DevEd Conference 2025
On November 11-13 2025, NORRAG participated in the inaugural Development and Education Conference #DevEd2025 conference in Melbourne. The first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific.
Congratulations to the Australian Council for Education Research, Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) for bringing attention to the region’s protracted education challenges, but also for highlighting its many positive examples of educational transformation.
The conference confirmed that equitable knowledge production and accessible evidence shape powerful policies and better teaching and learning practices.
Great to also see so many of the KIX EMAP hub partners involved!
Panel Session: Equity and Inclusive Education – From Exclusion to Inclusion: Building Resilient Education Systems
Thursday 13th November 2025, 03:00 to 04:00 CET / 13:00 to 14:00 AEDT
Speakers:
- Chris Henderson, NORRAG
- Leila Smith, Aurora Foundation
- Beth Sprunt, University of Melbourne
The Role of Knowledge, Innovation and Exchange in Building Equitable and Inclusive Education Systems
Wednesday 12th November 2025, 00:30 to 2:30 CET / 10:30 to 12:30 AEDT
Speakers:
- Aditi Desai, KIX EMAP Hub
- Nisa Felicia, Pusat Studi Pendidikan dan Kebijakan, Indonesia
- Sangay Jamtsho, IDRC
- Arushi Terway, NORRAG
- Dr Ethel Valenzuela
- Mohammad Ali Zinnah, Dhaka University
Shifting Donor Priorities and the Changing Landscape of International Financing and Partnerships in Education: Impacts in Asia-Pacific
Tuesday 11th November 2025 01:00 to 02:30 CET / 11:00 to 12:30 AEDT
NORRAG’s Dr Christopher Henderson acted as discussant for the high-level panel on donor priorities and the shifting financing landscape and he organized the high-level panel on educational inclusion and exclusion in the Asia Pacific, where he highlighted NORRAG’s Policy Insights publication on Refugee Teachers and the region’s Rohingya crisis.
Speakers:
- Will Brehm, University of Canberra
- Kate Lee, Union Aid Abroad
- Steven Lewis, Australian Catholic University
- Ivan Matovich, Monash University
- Ritesh Shah, University of Auckland
- Robin Shields, University of Queensland
- Prachi Srivastava, University of Adelaide
- Christopher Henderson, NORRAG
Photo credits: © Tom Russell