Noah W. Sobe
17 Jul 2020

As we build global solidarity and action in education, think infrastructure not architecture

This NORRAG Highlights is contributed by Noah W. Sobe, Senior Project Officer at UNESCO’s Futures of Education initiative. It is published in conjunction with the UNESCO-NORRAG online consultation on the Futures of Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crises (17.07.2020). In this post, the author calls for reimagining education structures in the wake of COVID-19 around...
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17 Jul 2020

UNESCO and NORRAG hold Futures of Education in emergencies and protracted crises online consultation

UNESCO and NORRAG, in partnership with several Geneva-based international organizations in the field of EiE and with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), are organizing, on Friday 17 July, an online consultation on “The Futures of Education in Emergencies and Crisis Situations”. This foresight exercise will feed into UNESCO’s global...
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Chiedza A. Chinhanu and Seun B. Adebayo
08 Jul 2020

Ubuntu in Education: Towards equitable teaching and learning for all in the era of SDG 4

This NORRAG Highlights is contributed by Chiedza A. Chinhanu (PhD Researcher in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds) and Seun B. Adebayo (PhD Researcher at the School of Education, National University of Ireland, Galway). The authors argue that a practical approach through which SDG 4 can potentially be realized...
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07 Jul 2020

IDRC Regional calls

During the next months, IDRC and GPE will launch calls for regional projects in the four regions covered by KIX. Regional calls are designed to meet the demands of GPE partner countries for knowledge and innovation. They are based on a consultation process led by the four regional KIX Hubs across countries in their respective...
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07 Jul 2020

KIX in your country

On 27 May the official launch of the KIX EAP Hub brought together over 85 participants from 18 of the 21 Hub countries! In the meantime, 11 countries have established their National KIX Steering Committee and 5 more are in the process of doing so. Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Sudan have already appointed their...
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07 Jul 2020

First KIX EAP Learning Cycle starting on 24 September

The KIX Learning Cycle 1 “Feasibility Study on Scaling Innovation” consists of a professional development course for national experts from 21 countries in the Europe | Asia | Pacific (EAP) region. Through this course, participants will learn about scaling impact, how to design an empirical feasibility study, how to collect, analyse and explain data, among...
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07 Jul 2020

A letter from NORRAG on the occasion of COVID-19

Dear NORRAG members, I am truly excited to join NORRAG as Executive Director. I have supported and admired the work of NORRAG for many years as a network member, and served on the Consultative Committee for three years. Having worked in education and development research, policy and practice, as well as organisational development, I am...
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