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... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
31 May 2018
Why We Should All be Researcher-Advocates
This post is the first in the new 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). The authors focus on what it means to do good research and how research can be used... Read More
26 May 2018
Consultancy - analysis of the opportunities and bottlenecks for collaboration across child protection and education sectors in humanitarian settings
The Inter-Agency Network of Education in Emergencies (INEE) and the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action have published the Terms of Reference for a consultancy to develop an evidence-based framing paper for the joint meeting of INEE and Alliance, which will explore opportunities and discuss bottlenecks for joint and integrated education and child protection programming... Read More
23 May 2018
Initiating Stakeholder Dialogue and Research: Philanthropic and CSR Support for Education in India
This post is part of the NORRAG Debates stream on Philanthropy in Education, which follows presentations about and around the Philanthropy in Education Symposium series, co-sponsored by NORRAG, the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research, and the Open Society Foundations. This post reflects on the second event in the Symposium series, a roundtable... Read More
17 May 2018
Financement ou financiarisation du développement? Que se passe-t-il dans les secteurs de la santé & de l'éducation ?
Cette journée s’inscrit dans le prolongement de celle tenue en novembre 2015, sur «Financement ou financiarisation du développement ? Approches globales, nationales et dans le secteur agricole» dont le texte de présentation rappelait que « La mobilisation croissante de ressources financières pour les pays les moins avancés en particulier est nécessaire eu égard aux besoins... Read More
17 May 2018
Webcast: What is the Role of Affordable Non-State Schools in Crisis and Conflict Contexts?
May 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am Between 2000 and 2014, the number of educational institutions affected by conflict increased 17-fold. In 2016, over 109 million children were living in fragile settings. In these settings, a government’s ability to provide education can be severely hampered and affordable non-state schools can respond to the unmet... Read More
15 May 2018
Towards Evidence-Based Financing for Education in Emergencies
A blog series by NORRAG and INEE This post introduces a new blog series by NORRAG and INEE to promote discussion of and explore the linkages between financing and evidence for education in emergencies (EiE). The strikingly low share of international humanitarian funding allocated to education is not sufficient to support the unprecedented need of... Read More
03 May 2018
Defining Educational Quality(ies): Can the Right to Quality Education be Fulfilled through Market Incentives?
This post is published as part of the NORRAG Debates stream on the Right to Education. The authors take a quantitative approach to the classic economist argument that market competition incentivizes quality, questioning whether voucher-based competitive funding programs, and the associated use of standardized test scores as a measure of quality, should be the foundation to... Read More