07 Aug 2018
NORRAG Special Issue 01 in Spanish: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities
Leer este story en español The Spanish contextualisation and translation of selected articles from NORRAG Special Issue 01: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities is now available in the NORRAG Resource Library. NSI Spanish edition was prepared by Felicitas Acosta, Professor and Researcher, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina NORRAG Special... Read More
01 Aug 2018
NORRAG Special Issue 01 in Spanish: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities
Leer este story en español The Spanish contextualisation and translation of selected articles from NORRAG Special Issue 01: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities is now available in the NORRAG Resource Library. NSI Spanish edition was prepared by Felicitas Acosta, Professor and Researcher, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina NORRAG Special... Read More
30 Jul 2018
NORRAG Special Issue 01 in French: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities
Voir cette nouvelle en français The French contextualisation and translation of selected articles from NORRAG Special Issue 01: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities is now available in the NORRAG Resource Library. NSI French was prepared by the NORRAG team. NSI French 01 contains a selection of 12 articles from the... Read More
26 Jul 2018
Let local governments and small-scale organizations lead us towards Sustainable Development
In this Blog post, Radhika Iyengar, Director of Education at the Center for Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, advocates for countries local-level interventions targeting multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) objectives. She gives an example of such initiatives: a solar-powered “Computer Center for Women” in Telangana state of India and Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Sachs... Read More
23 Jul 2018
SDG 4 Data Week, Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4 videos and resources
NORRAG recently organised two Brown Bag lunches on 11 and 13 July at the Graduate Institute, Geneva “SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4: Targets, Actors, Data and Resources”, with the support of the Education Network of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The series aims to provide members of the... Read More
19 Jul 2018
Time to act: Calculating & securing the finances to fund education for the world’s refugees
This post is published as part of the debate series: Towards Evidence-Based Financing for Education in Emergencies, by NORRAG and INEE, intended to promote discussion of and explore the linkages between financing and evidence for education in emergencies (EiE). In this post, the author discusses a global plan to finance refugee education. Emma Wagner is... Read More
11 Jul 2018
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About SDG 4 Indicators… But Didn’t Know Who – or How – to Ask
Silvia Montoya is the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). In this blog post she explains how new tools from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics chart a course for education stakeholders to address the 2030 Education Agenda. This post is published in connection with “SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4:... Read More
09 Jul 2018
SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4: Targets, Actors, Data and Resources
Read the post-event article including videos of the sessions and access to presentations UNESCO and its partners have designed a monitoring framework for the Education 2030 Agenda, but for those not involved in the development process, the SDG 4 data framework can pose a challenge. To address this, NORRAG organized two brown bag lunches on... Read More
28 Jun 2018
Promoting a Growth Mindset Attitude at School: The School-Job Integration Approach
This article, prepared by Paolo Nardi of Cometa Research, presents Cometa Formazione, an innovative vocational training provider in Como, Italy which follows a model of Reality-based Learning. Paolo Nardi @paolonardi80 is International Affairs Officer and Responsible for Research at Cometa Research. He is also a researcher at the Centro di Economia regionale, dei trasporti e... Read More
27 Jun 2018
New project led by NORRAG on innovative financing for education and development: Case studies and multimedia material for eLearning
Starting in September 2018, and for the next two years, NORRAG and a global network of six partner universities will engage in researching and developing cutting-edge multimedia material for teaching and eLearning on innovative financing for education and development. The COFER Innovative Financing for Education and Development: Case Studies and Multi-Media Material for ELearning project... Read More