20 Mar 2024
Concluding Event of KIX Research Project “Distance Education to Improve Quality and Access to Education in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Tajikistan”
On 20 February 2024, the KIX research project “Distance Education to Improve Quality and Access to Education in Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, and Tajikistan” held its concluding event. The project was implemented by a consortium of three organisations – Taalim-Forum (leading organisation, Kyrgyzstan), Nomadic Nature Conservation (Mongolia) and Anahita (Tajikistan). Read more about the project here. The... Read More
20 Mar 2024
Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing: Time for a New Era in the Open Access Movement?
Center for Global Development (CGD) Event – Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing: Time for a New Era in the Open Access Movement? REGISTER When? Wednesday, 27 March, 2024 11 am EST – 3 pm GMT | Virtual About the Event Research publishing is more important and more broken than most people realise. In... Read More
20 Mar 2024
Re-claiming ‘the Conscience of Humanity’: UNESCO, the Futures of Education and the Threat to Democracy
In this cross-posted blogpost, Audrey Bryan critically examines UNESCO’s engagement with social-emotional learning, happiness, and the figure of the ideal learning citizen. Tomorrow’s world: The ideal learner of the future Imagining and predicting what the future holds has become an increasingly important aspect of the global educational governance landscape in the 21st century, not least... Read More
19 Mar 2024
New Online Seminar Series - Education Policy and Research in International Perspective
A new seminar series on education will be launching soon: Education Policy and Research in International Perspective. This series is going to be hosted by the Education Research and Policy Hub at the London School of Economics (LSE). Their intention is to bring together scholars from across the world who are working in the fields of education policy... Read More
19 Mar 2024
Call for Contributions NSI 11: Multilingualism and Language Transition: Innovations and Possibilities - a NORRAG Special Issue
Editors: Angeline Mbogo Barrett, Rachel K.A. Bowden, Anthony A. Essien, Prem Phyak and Barbara Trudell The expectation that children use an unfamiliar language for all or part of their basic education is a major contribution to the so-called ‘global learning crisis’ (World Bank, 2021). Use of an unfamiliar language creates linguistic barriers between schools and... Read More
14 Mar 2024
An Ethical AI for Equitable Education
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for decades, yet recent important innovations made the public interest and policy conversations shift in important ways. AI is here to stay and challenges concerning the reflection of inequalities need to be addressed. On Wednesday 13 March 2024, NORRAG launched its 4th Policy Insights entitled AI and Digital Inequities... Read More
14 Mar 2024
The Evolution of School Inspection
In this blogpost, Mike Douse illustrates that, across the world, schools are inspected in various ways, for a variety of reasons, argues that self-evaluation with benign external moderation is the eventual goal, and maintains that, whatever process is applied, no conscientious teacher or responsible school leader should ever be pressurised, pilloried or penalised. Schools are... Read More
12 Mar 2024
A Concerted Stride Towards Gender Equality in Education
In this cross-posted blogpost, Arushi Terway summarizes a panel discussion with international experts on the challenges of gender equality in education, held at the GPE KIX EMAP Hub Education Policy and Innovation Conference (EPIC) 2023. Entrenched social norms and systemic barriers remain pervasive challenges to achieving gender equality in education; disparities in access, opportunities, and outcomes persist. Bridging... Read More
07 Mar 2024
Early Childhood Development is Intricately Linked to Women's Participation in Employment, Wellbeing and Social Capital
In Children in Crossfire’s early childhood development work in urban Dar es Salaam, increasingly it is becoming clear that working with children is necessary but not sufficient. We find that we must take a 2-Generation or whole family approach as it is a context in which women’s participation in employment, their wellbeing and social capital... Read More
06 Mar 2024
OHCHR - New Report on the Right to Participate in Science
We are glad to share with you the latest report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Ms. Alexandra Xanthaki, which focuses on “The right to participate in science”. Additionally, Dr. Moira V. Faul, Executive Director of NORRAG, participated in an expert consultation meeting. The report is not yet available in all UN... Read More