25 Apr 2017
3-4 May in Nairobi, Kenya- State of Education in Africa
Join the Africa-America Institute for the third State of Education in Africa Conference, which convene policy makers, influencers, education leaders and innovators from across Africa and around the world to coordinate and track the progress of higher education in Africa. Presenters will share their visions and transformative ideas for handling the challenges presented by the... Read More
25 Apr 2017
25 May- Join the Geneva Challenge 2017 on Employment
Eager to stimulate reflection and innovation on development from diverse disciplinary and contextual perspectives and with the generous support of Ambassador Jenö Staehelin, the Graduate Institute launched Advancing Development Goals Contest in 2014, an international competition for graduate students. This year’s contest looks at the challenges of employment. The idea is to gather contributions that... Read More
25 Apr 2017
11-12 May in Geneva- The International Labor Organization is hosting a Conference on Jobs and Skills Mismatch
This ILO International Conference will be held on 11-12 May 2017 in Geneva, Switzerland. It aims to deepen understanding of the labor market effects of various types of skill mismatch and how they can be best measured in different country contexts. It will include ILO research and also present the work of other partner international... Read More
25 Apr 2017
NORRAG has a new website!
We are very pleased to present our new website. The objective of this revamp is to create a more user-friendly interface which better reflects our current activities and strategy for the future. Our resources and membership areas will soon be available on this new platform but for now you will be redirected to the old... Read More
12 Apr 2017
The Cost of Ignorance Revisited: Imitating the OECD or Learning to Be Critical? By Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye
By Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye, Kyoto University, Japan. In February 2016, Director of UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Silvia Montoya wrote a NORRAG blog entitled Measuring Learning: the Cost of Ignorance. The Director pointed out that five of the seven new education targets for Sustainable Development Goal 4 concentrate on learning, arguing it was... Read More
10 Apr 2017
Lost in Translation? Is the Road to an SDG Heaven – or to the Other Place - Paved with Inadequate Global Indicators? By Kenneth King
By Kenneth King, NORRAG and the University of Edinburgh. After the highly inclusive process of developing the education Sustainable Development Goal (SDG4), a much more technical process was used to produce the global indicators. The challenge of securing the ambitious targets for education in SDG4 and assessing these via the global indicators is examined here... Read More
23 Mar 2017
Why we need a Flagship Indicator for Education: all Children in School and Learning By Bridget Crumpton and Silvia Montoya
By Bridget Crumpton, the Education Commission, and Silvia Montoya, UNESCO Institute for Statistics. For the past year, we have been pushing for more and better data to help ensure that no-one is left behind – a key objective of the new Global Action Plan for Sustainable Development Data launched in Cape Town this January. We have... Read More
13 Mar 2017
Unfinished Business in Global Education by Nicholas Burnett
By Nicholas Burnett, senior fellow, Results for Development Global education is not in good shape. There is too much unfinished business. I draw attention to four such areas, making no attempt to be comprehensive but rather focusing on topics of personal importance to me: Sterile debates continue to dominate. Our field remains excessively concerned... Read More
03 Mar 2017
Taming Educational Privatization by Fazal Rizvi
By Fazal Rizvi, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Over the past three decades, the idea of privatization in education has been widely embraced by countries around the world. Of course the ways in which they have translated it into policies and programs have varied greatly,[1] as indeed have been the reasons given in support of... Read More
21 Feb 2017
Outsourcing Liberia’s Education System: A New level of Absurdity in Education Provisioning by Salim Akoojee
By Salim Akoojee, Independent Education and Training Analyst, South Africa and Hong Kong. The recent move to outsource Liberia’s education system in what has been referred to as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a tragedy that belies credulity. This was made all the more stark with the court judgement in Uganda (upheld by the high... Read More