30 Aug 2018
Launch of online public consultation of the Human Rights guiding principles on private actors in education
The Drafting Committee of the human rights Guiding Principles on private actors in education is inviting all interested stakeholders to take part in an online public consultation on the draft of the Human Rights Guiding Principles on State Obligations with regards to Private Involvement in Education. To take part in the online consultation: Consult the... Read More
28 Aug 2018
Education, beyond public to common good: what implications for the Education 2030 Agenda?
This blog post is part of the NORRAG Debates stream on the Right to Education. Rita Locatelli, research fellow at the UNESCO Chair of the University of Bergamo, Italy, illustrates some of the main ideas developed in Education as a public and common good: Reframing the governance of education in a changing context, ERF Working... Read More
27 Aug 2018
Secretary-General Appoints Michelle Bachelet of Chile United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN Release: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, following approval by the General Assembly, has appointed Michelle Bachelet of Chile the next United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She will succeed Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of Jordan, to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his commitment and dedicated service to the United Nations. Ms. Bachelet... Read More
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