29 Apr 2024
UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education - Call for Contributions: Artificial Intelligence in Education
For her upcoming report to be presented to the General Assembly in October 2024, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Ms. Farida Shaheed, is planning to prepare a report on artificial intelligence in education and its human rights-based use at the service of the advancement of the right to education. A call... Read More
25 Apr 2024
Launch: The INEE Minimum Standards for Education, 2024 Edition, at the Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks
Organized by Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) 7 May 2024, 2:00pm – 3:30pm UTC Location :International Conference Centre, Geneva , Room 12 and online (Zoom) Topic(s): INEE Minimum Standards Since the last update of the INEE Minimum Standards (INEE MS) in 2010, the field of education... Read More
25 Apr 2024
BETT as a Global Agenda: Colonizing Futures and Affective Ideologies
In this blogpost, Pravindharan Balakrishnan reflects on the BETT Show, which in his view represents a global promissory agenda of education, invoking the “affective ideology of EdTech”. A part of NORRAG’s digitalisation of education blog series, this blogpost is the second in a two blogpost mini-series on EdTech summits. Introduction The Covid 19 crisis has... Read More
24 Apr 2024
EdTech from the Perspective of Edtech Firms and Investors
In this blogpost, Lulu Shi presents some takeaways from the edtech summit EdTechX, which provided an opportunity to gain insights into the edtech sector. She notes that EdTech firms conceptualise education as a market rather than as a common good. A part of NORRAG’s digitalisation of education blog series, this blogpost is the first in... Read More
Hybrid Symposium - Exploring the global reform scripts of development partners: Comparative retrospective analyses
русский I العربية I ខ្មែរ I Sponsors Date: Thursday, 9 May 2024 Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm Japan Standard Time (JST) Location: Hybrid event; Kobe University, Japan & Zoom Simultaneous translation into Arabic, Russian, and Khmer will be provided. REGISTER Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), hosts a hybrid symposium on... Read More
18 Apr 2024
Global Action Week for Education GAWE 2024
GAWE 2024 Campaign – Transformative Education Concept and Campaign Plan April 22 -26, 2024 The Global Action Week for Education 2024 (GAWE 2024) on April 22-26 is an important landmark as it launches the 25th anniversary of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE). It will signify the historic moment in Dakar, Senegal in 1999 when... Read More
18 Apr 2024
Behind the platforms: Safeguarding Intellectual Property Rights and Academic Freedoms in Higher Ed
Mark your calendars for May 6! Explore the future of academic freedoms and intellectual property in the digital era. Webinar with Janja Komljenovic to launch the research Behind the platforms: Safeguarding intellectual property rights and academic freedoms in Higher Ed. Monday 6 May 2024 15:00 CEST Please fill in the form below to sign up... Read More
18 Apr 2024
Spotlight on Ethiopia's Secondary Education Challenges
In this blogpost, Dawit T. Tiruneh and Tebeje Molla shine the spotlight on challenges in Ethiopia’s education system, with a focus on secondary education. The education system in Ethiopia has been grappling with a substantial crisis. Continuing civil war and political instability have disrupted the educational trajectories of millions of Ethiopian children. The school sector... Read More
17 Apr 2024
NORRAG Job Board: Education Project Officer, ICR
Education Project Officer Deadline: April 28, 2024 ABOUT US The CMCC Foundation is a scientific research center on climate change and its interactions with the environment, society, the world of business, and policymakers. Our work aims to stimulate sustainable growth, protect the environment, and develop strategies for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change. WHAT... Read More
17 Apr 2024
Working Paper #14: Mapping the International Geneva Education Ecosystem
NORRAG launched Working Paper #14: Mapping the International Geneva Education Ecosystem at a briefing for the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and to the other international organisations in Geneva on 23 January 2024. The briefing was introduced by Laetitia Kirianoff, Head of the Humanitarian Section, who spoke to the importance of better understanding the education... Read More