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
21 Nov 2018
23 November 2018: SUDAC Annual Conference
The COFER Innovative Financing for Education and Development: Case Studies and Multi-Media Material for E-Learning project was presented at the SUDAC Annual Conference organised on 23 November in Bern, Switzerland. NORRAG and a global network of six partner universities are engaged in this project to research and develop cutting-edge multimedia material for teaching and eLearning... Read More
21 Nov 2018
30 November 2018, Geneva: When Education Becomes a Victim of Conflict - Preventing Lost Generations
The Graduate Institute, Geneva in cooperation with the EU Delegation to the UN and other international organisations organised a panel discussion on the topic: “When Education Becomes a Victim of Conflict – Preventing Lost Generations” on 30 November 2018 at the Maison de la paix (Auditorium Ivan Pictet A). Given NORRAG’s involvement on the topic... Read More
20 Nov 2018
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring report shows insufficient progress on including migrants and refugees in national education systems
UNESCO’s 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, Migration, displacement and education, was released on 20 November in Berlin. The report shows that the number of migrant and refugee school-age children around the world today has grown by 26% since 2000 and could fill half a million classrooms. The Report highlights countries’ achievements and shortcomings in ensuring... Read More