03 Oct 2022
5 October 2022: World Bank Event "Putting Teachers at the Center: Celebrating World Teachers’ Day 2022"
On 5 October 2022 at 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT (16:00 – 17:30 CEST/ Geneva), the World Bank will hold an online event to celebrate World Teachers’ Day. The 90-minute panel, “Putting Teachers at the Center: Celebrating World Teachers’ Day 2022” will celebrate the importance of teachers and discuss how to best support teacher... Read More
30 Sep 2022
KIX Research Update - Data Must Speak report on school performance in Nepal
Nepal has seen improvements with education access, participation and retention in recent years. However, learning outcomes remain stagnant. So, how can we harness the power of existing administrative datasets to improve learning? A new report from the Data Must Speak (DMS) Positive Deviance Research, a KIX research project led by the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti,... Read More
29 Sep 2022
II Freire Conference: building the bridge between popular education and university
Between 17-21 October 2022, the “II Freire Conference: building the bridge between popular education and university“ will take place at the Faculty of Education (University of Cambridge), the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and online, organised by the The Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective (CLAREC) and Universidade Emancipa. It is an international, multicultural,... Read More
28 Sep 2022
Post-EdTech Futures
Educational technologies are often presumed to be central to the future of education. In this blog post, part of our series on the digitalisation of education, Ben Williamson explores how visions of EdTech’s future are imagined, shared, and made to seem consensual. EdTech founders and venture capital investors are today’s dominant visionaries of education, but the... Read More
26 Sep 2022
New philanthropy in the Dominican Republic: from foundation towards profit generation
This Blog Post is contributed by Alejandro Caravaca, D. Brent Edwards Jr. and Mauro C. Moschetti as part of the NORRAG Blog Series on Philanthropy in Education (PiE) which aims to foster dialogue between key stakeholders on critical issues relating to the global and regional role of Philanthropy in Education. In this Blog Post, the... Read More
26 Sep 2022
Request for proposal: GPE KIX Knowledge Synthesis on Educational Options for Out of School Children
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is requesting proposals for the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) Knowledge Synthesis on Educational Options for Out of School Children. KIX is a joint endeavour between the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and the IDRC to connect expertise, innovation and knowledge in GPE partner countries... Read More
09 Sep 2022
Welcoming Chanwoong Baek as NORRAG Academic Director and Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Education at the Geneva Graduate Institute
Chanwoong Baek joined NORRAG as the Academic Director in September 2022. Aside from NORRAG, he is serving as an Assistant Professor of Comparative and International Education in the International Relations/Political Science Department, with a courtesy appointment in the Anthropology and Sociology Department at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Prior to joining NORRAG, Chanwoong Baek was a... Read More
07 Sep 2022
Event Highlights: Book Launch: Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance
On 5 September 2022, NORRAG co-hosted a hybrid event at the Geneva Graduate Institute with the Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre (GGC) and the Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES) for the launch of the new book Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance: Pathways to Effectiveness which investigates the goals, ideals, and realities of... Read More
07 Sep 2022
Missing Education Data: Gender, Data and Measurement
This Blog Post is contributed by Elaine Unterhalter, Dr Rosie Peppin Vaughan and Dr Helen Longlands, as part of the NORRAG Blog Series on Missing Education Data which aims to further explore six themes that emerged from the inaugural summit and its accompanying papers and expert consultations. Measures of progress towards gender equality, particularly in girls’... Read More