26 Jan 2019
31 January – 1 February 2019, Magaliesburg, South Africa: Philanthropy in Education in South Africa: A space for learning and collaboration
Read the report published after the conference As part of the Philanthropy in Education (PiE) series, the Zenex Foundation, NORRAG and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), organised a roundtable discussion bringing together philanthropies, implementing partners, researchers and government representative to discuss the experience and approaches used by philanthropic organisations to support improving education quality... Read More
25 Jan 2019
Event Report - Philanthropy in Childhood Education in China: Trends and Perspectives
Philanthropy in China is poised for exponential growth, with education as the leading sector for philanthropic engagement. In this frame a conference on Philanthropy in Childhood Education in China: Trends and Perspectives was held on 15 January in Beijing, the first of its kind in China. The event brought together more than 170 participants and high-level... Read More
24 Jan 2019
INEE is looking for a consultant - Learning Outcomes Mapping
Porticus and INEE are recruiting a consultant to conduct a mapping exercise of existing measurement tools & approaches and monitoring & results frameworks related to academic and social-emotional learning outcomes. This work aims to provide policy guidance towards a shared understanding of learning outcomes and monitoring in the education in emergencies space. The work is a... Read More
23 Jan 2019
Invitation to the Swiss launch of the Global Education Monitoring Report 2019
The Swiss Launch of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2019 dedicated to “Migration, displacement and education: Building bridges, not walls” will take place on 21 February 2019 at SDC in Bern. The UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report was released on 20 November 2018 in Berlin. The report continues its assessment of progress towards SDG4,... Read More
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