16 Oct 2018
NORRAG at the 11th Policy Dialogue Forum on “Strengthening Teacher Education: A prerequisite for quality teaching, training and learning”, 5-9 November, 2018
NORRAG joined delegates at the Annual Meeting and 11th Policy Dialogue Forum, jointly organised by the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information of Jamaica and UNESCO (5-9 November 2018 in Montego Bay, Jamaica). The Annual meeting and 11th Policy Dialogue Forum focus on the issues pertaining... Read More
15 Oct 2018
NORRAG attends second meeting of INEE Education Policy Working Group
The second meeting of the Inter-Agency Network of Education in Emergencies (INEE) Education Policy Working Group takes place in Nairobi, Kenya on 17-19 October 2018. Patrick Montjouridès, NORRAG’s Senior Research Associate, is participating in the meeting. NORRAG was elected as a member of INEE’s Education Policy Working Group (EPWG) earlier this year for 2018-2020. The... Read More
12 Oct 2018
Facing the Climate Change Catastrophe: Education as Solution or Cause?
This NORRAG Highlights was prepared in response to the recent report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by Iveta Silova (Arizona State University Center for Advanced Studies in Global Education) and Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye (Kyoto University Graduate School of Education). It highlights the role, currently overlooked and underestimated, education should... Read More
10 Oct 2018
28 and 29 November 2018: Case study methodology workshop in China
In the framework of its cooperation with the China Global Philanthropy Institute NORRAG conducted a workshop on Case Study Methodology in Beijing on 28 and 29 November. The workshop was conducted by Christine Harris-Van Keuren and Joost Monks. The purpose of the workshop is to build capacity in the framework of CGPI’s ongoing work and... Read More
09 Oct 2018
NORRAG moderates expert advice discussion on Guiding Principles on private actors in education
Since 2015, a large group of education stakeholders have been working together to facilitate the process for development by experts of human rights Guiding Principles on private actors in education (GPs). These Guiding Principles will compile and clarify States’ existing obligations in education and provide guidance on how to implement the right to education in... Read More
05 Oct 2018
Even with all our new tech, quality learning still requires quality teachers: Reflections for World Teachers Day
This NORRAG Highlights is published on the occasion of World Teachers Day, celebrated annually on 5 October. Tara Stafford Ocansey is the Senior Education Technology Specialist of the Connect To Learn initiative of the Center for Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University. In this blog post, the author reminds us of the central role of teachers... Read More
01 Oct 2018
Call for contributions - NORRAG Special Issue 03 Global Monitoring of National Educational Development: Coercive or Constructive?
Leer este artículo en español NORRAG and the Interdisciplinary Program on Educational Policies and Practices (PIPE) of the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE), Mexico, invite specialists and stakeholders interested or involved in education to contribute with an article in Spanish or English in the second volume of: NORRAG Special Issue 03 – Global Monitoring... Read More
27 Sep 2018
INEE Evidence for Education in Emergencies (EiE) Workshop - Setting a Strategic Research Agenda
The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), the Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE), and NORRAG co-convened a workshop on Evidence for Education in Emergencies (EiE) hosted by the JEiE at New York University on 28 September 2018 in New York. This event was the first in a series of inter-agency workshops with a... Read More
20 Sep 2018
UNESCO Institute for Statistics to release its largest education data of the year
The key to innovation lies in high-quality data. This is why the entire team at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is getting ready for its most important education data release of the year. On 26 September, UIS will be publishing about 32 global and thematic indicators to monitor progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4... Read More
18 Sep 2018
The role of Public private partnerships in access to education by visually impaired persons: The Marrakesh Treaty and the Accessible Books Consortium
This blog post is part of the NORRAG Debates stream on the Right to Education. Susan Isiko Štrba, visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, looks at two international partnerships that promote access to books and learning material of persons who are blind, visually impaired, or otherwise print disabled. The... Read More