24 Sep 2019
UN General Assembly Week: Education Side-Events
As the UN General Assembly (UNGA 74) kicked-off in New York on Monday September 23, the need to meet SDG 4 on education is a focus at many side-events during the UNGA week. On the first day, Monday, September 23, two interesting new reports were launched and discussed in front of a large audience in... Read More
23 Sep 2019
RECI Study: The education - training - work and employment Continuum in Swiss development cooperation
RECI, the Swiss Network for Education and International Cooperation, recently published a Study: The education – training – work and employment Continuum in Swiss development cooperation. The study, written by NORRAG’s Senior Adviser Michel Carton and Aude Mellet, examines the question of how NGOs implement the continuum perspective in their international cooperation programmes. Five case... Read More
18 Sep 2019
Locating the UAE in the International Architecture of Education: A Closer Look at Configuration Processes and Global Tests
This NORRAG Highlights contributed by Clara Morgan, co-Chair of CIES’ Middle East Special Interest Group, and Ali Ibrahim, Associate Professor with the College of Education’s Foundations of Education Department at UAE University, discusses the effects of Large-Scale Learning Assessments (LSLAs) in the context of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The authors assess how useful LSLAs... Read More
17 Sep 2019
New Design: NORRAG Annual Report 2018
NORRAG’s annual report got a brand new look. The annual report presents the key activities and outputs delivered by NORRAG in 2018 in its three main output categories and four thematic clusters. In addition, the report provides information on NORRAG’s strategic orientations and plans for the coming years. The results of the bi-annual member survey... Read More
17 Sep 2019
October 18 2019, Bern, Switzerland: SUDAC International Conference
This year’s SUDAC (swissuniversities Development and Cooperation Network) Annual Conference aims to increase public awareness of the SUDAC programme and to start a policy dialogue on the relevance of SDGs in Swiss higher education in 2019. The Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries (KFPE) joins the SUDAC Programme in this event to present Swiss... Read More
12 Sep 2019
22 October 2019: OECD netFWD and UNESCO GEM Report discussion on the role of philanthropy for education in developing countries
The OECD Global Network of Foundations Working for Development (netFWD) in collaboration with the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report at UNESCO invite you to join a discussion examining the role of philanthropy for education in developing countries. Building upon netFWD’s new publication on Education and Philanthropy Quality Education for All: Lessons and Future Priorities, the discussion will unpack unprecedented OECD... Read More
11 Sep 2019
SUDAC Innovative financing for education and development project update
The SUDAC IFE project has been engaged in several activities over the last six months (March 2019 – August 2019). It is well underway in producing the content for an introductory online course on Innovative Financing for Education, developing a comprehensive literature review and field data collection on four case studies. The COFER Innovative Financing... Read More
03 Sep 2019
NORRAG participates in UNESCO Institute for Statistics Technical Cooperation Group on the Indicators of SDG4
Patrick Montjouridès, NORRAG Senior Research Associate, participated in the Technical Cooperation Group on the Indicators of SDG4 organised by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics on 29-30 August 2019 in Yerevan, Armenia. The meeting was organised in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Armenia with the support of... Read More
02 Sep 2019
Reframing the Terms of Debate: From ‘International Architectures’ to Complex, Adaptive, and Multiple Forms of Organisation
This NORRAG Highlights contributed by Radhika Gorur, Associate Professor at Deakin University and Director of the Laboratory of International Assessment Studies, provides alternative ways of thinking with regards to Nick Burnett’s recently published essay on the international architecture for education and Steven Klees’ related blog post. Gorur reminds us that transformative work is time-consuming and... Read More