11 Jul 2022
HLPF 2022 Side Event: Leveraging Interlinkages Among the SDGs to Realize the 2030 Agenda and Build Back Better from COVID-19
Moira V Faul, Executive Director of NORRAG, will speak on 11 July 2022 at a virtual side event of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF 2022). This side event will take place after the thematic sessions on individual goals (5-8 July), thus providing an opportunity to assess how well these interlinkages are currently understood and... Read More
07 Jul 2022
Policy Insights: the Digitalisation of Education
NORRAG’s first Policy Insights collection, published on Thursday 7 July 2022, shares innovative and critical perspectives on the digitalisation of education from experts in a wide range of disciplines and draws out learning for international education policy makers and practitioners. The introduction of technology into education has never – alone – solved the problems that... Read More
07 Jul 2022
Events Highlights: The digitalisation of education and its impact on the right to education
NORRAG and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education hosted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) organised an online side event to the Human Rights Council on 24 June 2022 from 13:00-14:30 (CEST/Geneva). This event explored how digitalisation is transforming education around the world and celebrated the Special... Read More
07 Jul 2022
The digitalisation of education: sharing innovative and critical research for more equitable policy
Moira V. Faul (Executive Director, NORRAG) and Anna Numa Hopkins (Policy Engagement Lead, NORRAG) introduce a new publication that shares under-represented expertise on the digitalisation of education. The publication draws on diverse disciplines to distill learning for a broad audience about how digitalisation is impacting education policy making and governance, teaching and learning, and educational... Read More
06 Jul 2022
KIX EAP Podcast #15: Upholding research and improving education quality in Bhutan, with Karma Utha
This episode of the KIX EAP Podcast, hosted by Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor, Chapman University (USA), features Dr. Karma Utha, Assistant Professor in Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan. In the podcast, Dr. Utha talks about upholding research that examines public education policies and about improving the quality of education in Bhutan.... Read More
05 Jul 2022
5 July 2022: Event: Refugee teachers and teachers of refugees
From 1:30–3:00 p.m. CEST / 7:30–9:00 a.m. EST on 5 July 2022, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations will host the High-Level Political Forum “Refugee teachers and teachers of refugees: What does transformation look... Read More
04 Jul 2022
New report from the Geneva Global Hub for EiE: Financing for education in emergencies coming up short in the wake of COVID-19
The Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies (EiE) has launched a new report on Financing for education in emergencies coming up short in the wake of COVID-19. Funding for EiE is falling behind. It is far from meeting the needs of the millions of school-aged children and youth affected globally by crises, who require... Read More
01 Jul 2022
Event Highlights: Girls' Education: Counting the Uncounted
In keeping with our core principles of inclusiveness and gender equity, NORRAG in cooperation with the KIX Europe I Asia I Pacific Hub and the Gender Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute organised “Girls’ Education: Counting the Uncounted” on 15 June 2022. This webinar is also the 14th in the KIX EAP Webinar series. The... Read More
23 Jun 2022
30 June 2022: Psychosocial support to children and adolescence in education projects: Good practices and challenges
On 30 June 2022 from 3:00pm-5:00pm, the Swiss Network for Education and International Cooperation (RECI) will host the interactive webinar “Psychosocial support to children and adolescence in education projects: Good practices and challenges.” The webinar will be in English and Spanish with simultaneous translation. Deadline to register is 24 June 2022. Register here About the... Read More
21 Jun 2022
UNICEF launches a methodological review of the Data Must Speak Positive Deviance Research
The pandemic has aggravated a learning crisis and put global goals in jeopardy. And yet, even in the most challenging educational contexts, some schools outperform others located in similar contexts and with an equivalent level of resources. Why do these exceptional schools, known as ‘positive deviant’ schools, achieve improved outcomes in learning, retention, equity and... Read More