19 Nov 2018
Watch Alexandra Draxler's video on NORRAG open-access book “The State, Business, and Education: Public-Private Partnerships Revisited”
In this podcast, Alexandra Draxler describes the unifying theme of NORRAG open-access book “The State, Business, and Education: Public-Private Partnerships Revisited”, edited with Gita Steiner-Khamsi, NORRAG Director and Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and the Graduate Institute. This edited volume illustrates the way in which the logic of private actors has come to blur the... Read More
12 Nov 2018
OECD netFWD Education Working Group
On 7 November 2018, Alexandra Draxler, Senior Advisor at NORRAG participated in the first Education Working Group meeting that took place at OECD Headquarters in Paris to discuss the future of philanthropy for education. The themes of the meeting covered a variety of topics with regards to the future of philanthropy for education such as... Read More
12 Nov 2018
Democratising Knowledge: a report on the scholarly publisher, Elsevier, by Dr. Jonathan Tennant
Education International just released a new report as part of their global response to the growing commercialisation and privatisation of education, Democratising Knowledge: a report on the scholarly publisher, Elsevier, by Dr. Jonathan Tennant. The report was officially launched on Tuesday 13th of November 2018 during the Education International’s 11th International Further & Higher Education... Read More
05 Nov 2018
L’éducation des réfugiés en contexte urbain : renforcer les politiques et les pratiques d'accès, de qualité, et d'inclusion
Dans le cadre de la journée thématique « Education et Migration » organisée par NORRAG et RECI (Réseau Suisse Education et Coopération Internationale) les principaux résultats d’un rapport sur l’éducation des réfugiés en contexte urbain sont présentés dans ce NORRAG Debates sur le droit à l’éducation. Cette étude est signée par Mary Mendenhall, S. Garnett... Read More
02 Nov 2018
Mind the Learning Gap: A Methodological Look into World Bank’s New Human Capital Index
This NORRAG Highlights is written by Ji Liu, NORRAG Research Associate, PhD Candidate and Doctoral Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University on the occasion of the launch of the World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature of Work. In this post, the author looks at the World Bank Group’s new Human Capital Index (HCI) which quantifies... Read More
31 Oct 2018
6 November 2018: Thematic day - Education and Migration
voir cette information en français 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 in Bern, looked at the topic both from a Swiss and international perspective. NORRAG was specifically leading a workshop on the Right to education and... Read More
29 Oct 2018
NORRAG Blog writer's resources and best practices
Check the following recommendations which offer valuable advice when writing Blog posts. Please note that following the rules retrieved from the links at the end of this page does not guarantee publications on the NORRAG Blog (see our contribution page for our official guidelines). These guidelines will, however, offer common sense tips and best practices... Read More
26 Oct 2018
Now Available “The State, Business, and Education: Public-Private Partnerships Revisited”
NORRAG’s open-access book “The State, Business, and Education: Public-Private Partnerships Revisited”, edited by Gita Steiner-Khamsi, NORRAG Director and Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and the Graduate Institute, and Alexandra Draxler, NORRAG Senior Advisor is now available (released October 2018). Look inside This is the first volume in a new open-access book series entitled NORRAG... Read More
23 Oct 2018
Call for contributions - NORRAG Special Issue 02 Data collection and evidence building to support education in emergencies
قراءة هذه الدعوة باللغة العربية Lea la convocatoria en español Voir cet appel en français NORRAG invites specialists and stakeholders interested or involved in education to submit an article in English, French, Spanish or Arabic to NORRAG Special Issue 02 – Data Collection and Evidence Building to Support Education in Emergencies. NORRAG Special issue (NSI)... Read More
22 Oct 2018
When you have a dashboard hammer in your hand, everything looks like an infographic nail
This NORRAG Highlights is published by Luis Crouch[1], Senior Economist in the International Development Group of RTI International, along with his colleagues and co-writers, Alex Pavluck acting as Informatics Application Advisor and Julio Rank Wright, Senior Business Strategy Specialist. In this post, the authors warn against the overuse of data visualization without in-depth analysis: “Policy dashboards... Read More