11 Dec 2025
Human Rights Day and the Future of Education: Old and New Challenges to Guaranteeing the Right to Education
On the occasion of Human Rights Day on 10 December 2025, Marina Avelar and Salomão Ximenes outline challenges to the right to education in the changing global context. Launching the 2025 Human Rights Day campaign ahead of the 10 December celebration, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk remarked that “human rights are our compass in... Read More
09 Dec 2025
Event Highlights: European University Institute Workshop - Universities and change: Reclaiming the space for imagination
NORRAG participated in the European University Institute (EUI) workshop “Universities and change: Reclaiming the space for imagination” organised with the support of the Open Society Foundations. Discussions centered on redefining the role of universities in contemporary society, and if and how universities can act as agents of social and cultural change. The gathering aimed explicitly... Read More
Book Launch - Data for Accountability in Education: Global Trends in School Reform
Wednesday15 April 2026 15:00 to 16:30 CET Online Five leading scholars and prolific authors have joined forces to explore a set of urgent and complex questions: When did data-for-accountability emerge as a governing tool in education? How has it evolved over time and across regions? Who benefits from the datafication of education—and who loses out?... Read More
GPE KIX Global Learning Cycles Information Sessions: Institutional Support for Promoting the Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Planning
The GPE KIX project “Institutional Support for Promoting the Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Planning”, implemented by NORRAG and Teachers College, Columbia University, is organising two global learning cycles. You are invited to join the information sessions on 16 and 17 December to learn more about this opportunity. To advance institutional capacity and... Read More
04 Dec 2025
Hugh McLean’s Reflections from Nairobi: Planting the Seeds of a New Foundational Learning
Can a foundational learning agenda be truly ‘foundational’ if it doesn’t help children understand the world on fire around them? This was a central question for me when I attended the PAL Evidence for Action Forum in Nairobi (25–26 November 2025) as NORRAG’s Senior Advisor. The event was a vibrant south-south learning exchange and a... Read More
04 Dec 2025
Relational Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice
In this blogpost, Moira V. Faul, Keith Holmes, Catherine Odora Hoppers, Prachi Srivastava, and Leon Tikly summarize the discussions of the Epistemic Justice Network Workshop, held at the 2025 UKFIET Conference in Oxford. The discussions revealed that struggles for cognitive justice continue to shape everyday practice in education and research. Participants envisioned new, reparative ways... Read More
02 Dec 2025
Call For Inputs: Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Service of the Right to Education
Farida Shaheed, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, is inviting interested stakeholders to submit their inputs to inform her next thematic report to be presented at the 62nd session of the Human Rights Council in June 2026. Background Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment together define the substantive content of the right to education. While... Read More
02 Dec 2025
IFE Projects
02 Dec 2025
Education as a Transformational Lever for Sustainable Development: NORRAG’s Global Exhibition
NORRAG’s travelling exhibition “Education and the SDGs” showcases a powerful message: sustainable development is impossible without strong, equitable education systems. The exhibition illustrates how SDG 4 underpins progress across the entire 2030 Agenda. Using research insights to create accessible visuals, the panels reveal how education drives advances in health, gender equality, environmental stewardship, decent work,... Read More
01 Dec 2025