13 Dec 2018
14-15 January 2019, Geneva, Switzerland: 2nd World Council of Comparative Education Societies Symposium
Immigrants and Comparative Education: Call to Re/Engagement The phenomenon of human migration is nothing new. Scientific research shows that humankind emanated in Africa and gradually migrated to other parts of the world. In recent centuries, Europeans migrated as settlers in the Americas and other parts of the world, causing internal population displacements in their new... Read More
11 Dec 2018
19 December 2018: Innovative Financing: Examples and Challenges in the New PPP Aid Architecture
Teachers College Columbia University and NORRAG organised two Skype-transmitted presentations and discussion on 19 December 2018 at Teachers College, introduced and moderated by Gita Steiner-Khamsi, NORRAG Director and Professor at Teachers College and the Graduate Institute, Geneva. The lectures addressed the issues related to the use of innovative finance, as a vehicle to generate additional funds for... Read More
11 Dec 2018
Framing the Future: PISA for Development and the Future of Education Governance
In this NORRAG Highlights published in connection with the release of OECD’s Pisa for Development results, Euan Auld, Assistant Professor at The Education University of Hong Kong, Jeremy Rappleye Associate Professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Education and Paul Morris Professor of Comparative Education at the UCL Institute of Education, raise doubts about official... Read More
07 Dec 2018
Education and Climate Change: is blaming ‘Western modernity’ the answer?
This NORRAG Highlights was prepared in response to the blog post by Iveta Silova, Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye: “Facing the Climate Change Catastrophe: Education as Solution or Cause?” In this post, Edward Vickers, Professor of Comparative Education at the Department of Education, Kyushu University, argues that it is both mistaken and counter-productive to portray... Read More
05 Dec 2018
Karen Mundy Blog: Global Governance and Educational Change
Karen Mundy, former CTO at GPE and CIES President has launched a new blog and is inviting new followers. In the blog, Mundy will be curating on international issues in education, the future of learning, and education in Africa. Topics in coming months will include: Education Futures in Africa; Making Sense of Innovation in Education, a look... Read More
04 Dec 2018
18 December 2018, Geneva: IBE Learning Series - Launch of the 2019 GEM Report, Geneva, International Migrants Day
UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education (IBE) is organising a launch of the 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report Migration, displacement and education: Building bridges, not walls. The event will take place at IBE’s Geneva headquarters from 1:30- 3:30 PM, on Tuesday 18 December 2018. Timed to coincide with International Migrant’s Day and soon after the planned... Read More
03 Dec 2018
Watch Antoni Verger’s video on his chapter ‘’Experimenting with educational development: International actors and the promotion of private schooling in vulnerable contexts’’, co-authored with Adrián Zancajo and Clara Fontdevila.
In his chapter ‘’Experimenting with educational development: International actors and the promotion of private schooling in vulnerable contexts’’, co-authored with Adrián Zancajo and Clara Fontdevila, Antoni Verger describes the role and impact of international organizations in the promotion of private education. This chapter is part of NORRAG open-access book “The State, Business, and Education: Public-Private Partnerships... Read More
29 Nov 2018
5 December 2018, Geneva: Innovative Financing for Education and Development: Potential, Progress and Debates
NORRAG and the Centre for Finance and Development organised on 5 December a panel discussion on Innovative Financing for Education and Development. The panellists presented their experiences and insights with development financing in education and the potential role of innovative financing mechanisms for the achievement of SDG 4 on inclusive and equitable quality education. Achievement of SDG 4... Read More
28 Nov 2018
The cost of knowledge: Education unions unite against the privatisation of scholarly research
This NORRAG Highlights is published by Dr. Jon Tennant, founder of Open Science MOOC and independent researcher at the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE). In this post, Dr Tennant describes the current trend to push for open-access to research, particularly if it is publicly funded. This trend contradicts the current business... Read More
26 Nov 2018
3-4 December 2018, Geneva: kick-off meeting for the COFER Innovative Financing for Education and Development
On 3-4 December, NORRAG organised the kick-off meeting for the COFER Innovative Financing for Education and Development: Case Studies and Multi-Media Material for ELearning project, which is partially funded by swissuniversities Development and Cooperation Network (SUDAC). NORRAG welcomed representatives from the six partner organizations from Switzerland, Argentina, China, India and South Africa of this project. The objective... Read More