28 Mar 2019
28 March 2019, Amman, Jordan: NORRAG at Global Education Cluster Annual Partners' Meeting 2019
NORRAG was invited to participate on 27-29 March 2019 in the Global Education Cluster Annual Partners’ Meeting 2019 with Joost Monks moderating the concluding session on the event’s third day. The theme of this year’s meeting was the protective role of education. Conference participants particularly looked at how the child protection and Education in Emergencies... Read More
27 Mar 2019
14 April 2019, San Francisco, USA: FreshEd Live: Altered States (of Education) - Prof Gita Steiner Khamsi in conversation with Will Brehm
How has the global education industry altered the State and notions of free public education? From Bridge International to International Baccalaureate and from network governance to system theory, this wide-ranging conversation interrogates the interaction between the public and private education sector, asking why the State has taken on the logic of business and how a quantum... Read More
25 Mar 2019
Education is Our Best Defense Against Scapegoat Narratives – but Needs Consistent Investment
This NORRAG Highlights is co-published by the World of Education Blog, Clare O’ Hagan, Communications Specialist at the Global Education Monitoring Report explains that education, as shown in the 2019 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, ‘Building Bridges not Walls’, has a great ability to fight discrimination with inclusive rhetoric. It can help newcomers adapt to... Read More
22 Mar 2019
[Video] Lunch Briefing - Public-private Partnerships: Challenges and Consequences for Education with Gita Steiner Khamsi
Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor at Columbia University (Teachers College), New York and at the Graduate Institute, Geneva talks in this lunch briefing recorded on 19 March 2019 at the Graduate Institute on the topic of public-private partnerships in education. A project of the modern nation-state, compulsory education is national in terms of accreditation, teaching content and... Read More
21 Mar 2019
Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education
This NORRAG Debates on the Right to Education is published by Professor Ann Skelton on the occasion of the publication of the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education. Prof. Skelton chairs the Drafting Committee of the Abidjan Principles and is a... Read More
21 Mar 2019
Landmark Abidjan Principles on the right to education published
The final text of the Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education has been published on Thursday 21st March 2019, at The Heron Portico Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya. The Abidjan Principles is a new landmark reference point in terms of understanding the... Read More
14 Mar 2019
‘Education technology and data science for inclusive systems’ – Interview with Patrick Montjouridés on 2019 UKFIET conference theme
NORRAG Senior Research Associate Patrick Montjouridès was recently interviewed on “Education technology and data science for inclusive systems” as theme co-convenor of one of six 2019 UKFIET conference themes, ‘Education technology and data science for inclusive systems’. What excites you about the theme of ‘education technology and data science for inclusive systems’? As with all... Read More
12 Mar 2019
Big Data? Big Deal: The Inability of Big Data to Escape the Limitations of Impact Evaluation
This NORRAG Highlights is published by D. Brent Edwards Jr., Assistant Professor of Theory and Methodology in the Study of Education at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. In this post, the author looks at methods used to process and transform education-related data called “impact evaluations”. Big data in the field of global education policy uses... Read More
07 Mar 2019
Data to Celebrate 50 Years of Progress on Girls’ Education
This NORRAG Highlights was prepared for the International Women’s Day and is published by Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), which is the official UN repository for statistics in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communications. In this post, the author indicates that there has been significant progress... Read More
28 Feb 2019
What Makes a Good Classroom? New UIS Data on School Conditions
This NORRAG Highlights was prepared by Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), which is the official UN repository for statistics in the fields of education, science and technology, culture and communications. In this post, the author stresses the importance of providing good environment and conditions for teachers and children at schools... Read More