17 Jan 2019
Fit for purpose household survey tools in the SDG era
This NORRAG Highlights post is published in connection with “SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4: Targets, Actors, Data and Resources”, held on 11 and 13 July 2018 at the Graduate Institute, Geneva with the support of the Education Network of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. In this post, Sheena Bell... Read More
15 Jan 2019
Deadline extended: Online Survey - Have Your Say about NORRAG
Dear Members, colleagues and friends, We are pleased to invite you to complete our biennial online survey. The aim of this survey is to assess how NORRAG has performed in 2017 and 2018, and to help NORRAG improve its work and strategy for the years ahead. Please follow this link to fill in the questionnaire:... Read More
09 Jan 2019
15 January 2019, Beijing, China: Philanthropy in Childhood Education in China: Trends and perspectives
China Global Philanthropy Institute in collaboration with NORRAG and the 21st Century Education Research Institute organised the conference:“Philanthropy in Childhood Education in China: Trends and perspectives” on 15 January 2019 in Beijing, China. This is the third event in the Philanthropy in Education Symposium Series. The event in China was organised with the support of the... Read More
21 Dec 2018
Six Lessons from UNESCO’s 2018 Global Education Meeting
This NORRAG Highlights is published in connection with the first Global Education Meeting which took place on 3-5 December 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. In this post, Will Brehm, Assistant Professor at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan and host of FreshEd, a weekly podcast on educational research, gives a personal... Read More
20 Dec 2018
Event Report - Right to education for migrants workshop at “Education and migration” thematic day
NORRAG and RECI (Réseau Suisse Education et Coopération Internationale) organised a Thematic Day on “Education and Migration”. The event, which took place on 6 November 2018 in Bern, looked at the topic both from a Swiss and international perspective sponsors NORRAG was specifically leading a workshop on the Right to education and migrations with Koumbou... Read More
13 Dec 2018
FreshEd with Will Brehm
FreshEd with Will Brehm is a weekly podcast that takes ideas in educational research, which may initially seem impenetrable, and seeks to make them more accessible, unraveling their complexity through conversations with expert academics in the field. The show began in October 2015 out of the confluence of two ideas: to make research on globalization and education... Read More
13 Dec 2018
14-15 January 2019, Geneva, Switzerland: 2nd World Council of Comparative Education Societies Symposium
Immigrants and Comparative Education: Call to Re/Engagement The phenomenon of human migration is nothing new. Scientific research shows that humankind emanated in Africa and gradually migrated to other parts of the world. In recent centuries, Europeans migrated as settlers in the Americas and other parts of the world, causing internal population displacements in their new... Read More
11 Dec 2018
19 December 2018: Innovative Financing: Examples and Challenges in the New PPP Aid Architecture
Teachers College Columbia University and NORRAG organised two Skype-transmitted presentations and discussion on 19 December 2018 at Teachers College, introduced and moderated by Gita Steiner-Khamsi, NORRAG Director and Professor at Teachers College and the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The lectures addressed the issues related to the use of innovative finance, as a vehicle to generate additional funds for... Read More
11 Dec 2018
Framing the Future: PISA for Development and the Future of Education Governance
In this NORRAG Highlights published in connection with the release of OECD’s Pisa for Development results, Euan Auld, Assistant Professor at The Education University of Hong Kong, Jeremy Rappleye Associate Professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Education and Paul Morris Professor of Comparative Education at the UCL Institute of Education, raise doubts about official... Read More
07 Dec 2018
Education and Climate Change: is blaming ‘Western modernity’ the answer?
This NORRAG Highlights was prepared in response to the blog post by Iveta Silova, Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye: “Facing the Climate Change Catastrophe: Education as Solution or Cause?” In this post, Edward Vickers, Professor of Comparative Education at the Department of Education, Kyushu University, argues that it is both mistaken and counter-productive to portray... Read More