27 Jun 2018

NORRAG Special Issue China 01: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities

The Chinese 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 China was prepared by the Institute of International and Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University (BNU) The Mandarin Chinese contextualisations include translations of...
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20 Jun 2018

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19 Jun 2018

International Geneva: UN rights chief slams ‘unconscionable’ US border policy of separating migrant children from parents

As part of his final global update, the United Nations human rights chief on Monday voiced his deep concern over recently-adopted United States border protection policies that have seen hundreds of migrant children forcibly separated from their parents. “In the past six weeks, nearly two thousand children have been forcibly separated from their parents,” UN High Commissioner...
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Lily Neyestani-Hailu and Laetitia Houlmann
14 Jun 2018

Rethinking Alternative Education to Achieve Learning for All in Sub-Saharan Africa

This blog post is authored by Lily Neyestani-Hailu, UNESCO Regional Education Policy & Planning Cluster Lead, and Laetitia Houlmann, UNESCO Dakar Education Consultant. It makes the case for rethinking both the purpose of education and the organization of learning in light of SDG4-Education 2030, in particular through the promotion of alternative and innovative education models....
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12 Jun 2018

Devex World 2018

Devex is an event which offered nearly 30 sessions, workshops, plenaries and expert presentations with thinkers & doers, changemakers & expert practitioners. The event took place at The Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C. on 12 June 2018. It is the second edition of this unique global development event with a full day...
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04 Jun 2018

New issue of Philanthropy & Education journal published

The second issue of the peer-reviewed scholarly journal Philanthropy & Education, edited by Professor Noah Drezner of Columbia University, is now available. The journal, which is sponsored by Teachers College, Columbia University and published by Indiana University, seeks to publish interdisciplinary work which examines prosocial voluntary actions benefiting education in order to advance scholarship and...
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01 Jun 2018

Global governance and ‘technologies of expertise’ (video)

On 24 & 25 May, the Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre and NORRAG hosted Technologies of Expertise as Technologies of Authorization: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Mobilization, Production and Impact of Technologies of Expertise by International Organizations. The event, organised by professors Annabelle Littoz-Monnet and Gita Steiner-Khamsi, presented new research on the politics of expertise, focusing on governance by numbers but also other...
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01 Jun 2018

Education International Research Report: Quality and Equalities: a comparative study of public and low-cost private schools in Lagos

Education International just released a new research report as part of their global response to the growing commercialisation and privatisation of education, Quality and Equalities: a comparative study of public and low-cost private schools in Lagos by Elaine Unterhalter, Lynsey Robinson and Jibrin Ibrahim. Since the 1980s, there has been inadequate state provision for primary...
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