24 May 2017
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Arushi Terway and Patrick Montjouridès as new members of our research team
Dr. Arushi Terway holds a doctorate in education from Teachers College, Columbia University and an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from Harvard. She brings 12 years of professional experience working in developing countries (India, Rwanda, South Sudan) and doing analytical work on education sector reform and youth education. Her previous work includes USAID funded education... Read More
23 May 2017
13 June in Bern - Swiss Commission for UNESCO Education Platform 2030
The Swiss Commission for UNESCO is organizing the first “Swiss Education Platform 2030”, which will be held on 13th June 2017, 9h15- 16h45 in Bern. Currently, Switzerland is working on the implementation process of Agenda 2030, including Objective 4 on education: “by 2030, ensuring universal access to quality education, on an equal footing, and to... Read More
23 May 2017
NORRAG’s visit to China in early May
NORRAG accomplished a fruitful trip to China from 6th to 13th this May. This visit consisted of a series events including the launch event of the NORRAG News 54 (Chinese version) at Zhejiang Normal University, a seminar on Philanthropy and Education: Chinese Experience and Perspective in collaboration with the China Donors Roundtable, a seminar on... Read More
23 May 2017
Russia and Education Assistance: Searching for its Role as a Returning Donor by Tuomas Takala and Nelli Piattoeva
By Tuomas Takala and Nelli Piattoeva, University of Tampere, Finland. The topic of Russia’s development assistance in general, and specifically in the education sector, has seldom been of interest among researchers – even in analyses of “emerging” donors (e.g. Mawdsley 2012); in the case of Russia, the appropriate term is rather “returning”. This situation is... Read More
18 May 2017
As Liberia Privatizes its Schools, An Unforeseen Result: Hungry Students by Ashoka Mukpo
By Ashoka Mukpo, Freelance Journalist (*) In a longer school day, students complain of hunger and drop out “As you can see, the green plum, everything is finished,” says Sinneh Binda, pointing to a tall mango tree. Towering over the courtyard of the Cinta Public School, about an hour’s drive from Liberia’s capital city of... Read More
04 May 2017
The Education SDG and Leaving No One Behind: Training Teachers Matters by Monica Mincu
By Monica Mincu, University of Turin, Italy. A key role to promoting educational quality is played by teachers and thus it is important to note how much “training teachers matters” when it comes to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4. In fact, the idea of quality is explicitly used in SDG4 and it is specified... Read More
04 May 2017
The Cost of Ignorance Revisited: A Reply by Silvia Montoya
By Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics A blog in reply to ‘The Cost of Ignorance Revisited: Imitating the OECD or Learning to Be Critical?’ (12th April, 2017) It’s certainly a necessary and worthwhile pursuit to assess and validate findings and research hypotheses in such a challenging area because it helps to improve them. But... Read More
25 Apr 2017
Launch of NORRAG News 54 in China and international seminar on the Belt and Road initiative and Agenda 2030
NORRAG’s partner in the People’s Republic of China, the Institute of International and Comparative Education of Zhejiang Normal University, hosted an event for the launch of the Mandarin version of NORRAG News 54, alongside a high-level seminar looking at the relation between the education SDG 4 and the Belt and Road initiative. This event took... Read More
25 Apr 2017
Launch of NORRAG News 54 in China and international seminar on the Belt and Road initiative and Agenda 2030
NORRAG’s partner in the People’s Republic of China, the Institute of International and Comparative Education of Zhejiang Normal University, hosted an event for the launch of the Mandarin version of NORRAG News 54, alongside a high-level seminar looking at the relation between the education SDG 4 and the Belt and Road initiative. This event took... Read More
25 Apr 2017
One-day public workshop in Burkina Faso
In the context of the collaborative program between NORRAG and the Atelier de Recherche sur l’Education au Burkina Faso (AREB) initiated one year ago, a public workshop took place on 16 May 2017 in Ouagadougou, Burkina faso. This meeting was the occasion to present activities conducted between AREB, the French Agency for Development (AFD) and... Read More