12 Feb 2025
GPE KIX Furthering Impact Fund
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX), a joint endeavour with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is pleased to share an open opportunity of funding for furthering the impact of closed research projects previously funded by GPE KIX. In its first phase, GPE KIX funded 41 applied research projects across... Read More
Hackathon: Mapping Marginalised Expertise across the Globe
NORRAG’s HACKATHON Mapping Marginalised Expertise across the Globe Date: 21 & 28 February 2025, 09:30 – 16:00 Location: Maison de La Paix (the Fab) The NORRAG Hackathon aimed to map NORRAG’s efforts to give a platform to marginalised experts in education. In addition to promoting our initiative #TheSouthAlsoKnows, at NORRAG we also set ourselves ambitious internal targets to... Read More
Event Highlights: Symposium on Innovative Financing for Education
Date: Wednesday 6 November 2024 Time: 5am to 1pm CET / 9.30am to 5.30pm IST Location: Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India and Online (Zoom) FULL PROGRAMME On 6th November 2024, the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (CETE-TISS) organised the first-of-its-kind symposium on Innovative Financing for... Read More
06 Feb 2025
NORRAG Job Board: The UCD School of Education is Recruiting Two Ad Astra Lecturers/Assistant Professors
The UCD School of Education is seeking to appoint two Ad Astra Assistant Professors, one with expertise in AI-Driven Educational Innovation and another in Children’s Digital Futures. This role invites early career academics who can significantly advance the development of these critical areas within the school and broader university through both research and teaching excellence.... Read More
06 Feb 2025
The Education-Training-Work Continuum: Questions about the Present and Future of the Knowledge Needed for Work
In this blogpost, which was previously published in NORRAG Special Issue No. 8 on The Education-Training-Work Continuums: Pathways to Socio-Professional Inclusion for Youth and Adults, Oscar Graizer seeks to explore the education-training-work continuum among youth and adults from low-income sectors in Argentina with a focus on “legitimate” knowledge. Please see the Spanish version of the... Read More
03 Feb 2025
Job Board: Giga Research Lab (GiRL) is recruiting a PhD student and a post-doc
The University of Geneva (UNIGE) and Giga, a joint initiative between UNICEF and ITU to “connect every school to the internet”, are proud to launch the Giga Research Lab (GiRL) within the Geneva School of Economics and Management’s Research Center for Innovation & Partnerships. This strategic initiative aims to serve as a hub for innovative research, talent... Read More
31 Jan 2025
Teacher Wellbeing and the Shaping of Teacher Shortages in Crisis-Affected Contexts
International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030, Chris Henderson This paper, prepared by Chris Henderson, explores the link between teacher wellbeing, attrition, and shortages in crisis-affected contexts, where conflict, refugee influxes, and under-resourced environments exacerbate challenges. Despite growing awareness, a global understanding remains limited due to fragmented data and a lack of standardized wellbeing... Read More
31 Jan 2025
Emon Nandi : Bringing Knowledge to Action
Bringing Knowledge to Action: My Experience at NORRAG, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland By Emon Nandi As an Assistant Professor at the Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE) at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India, my teaching and research interests lie in the Economics of Education, Education and Development, and Higher Education.... Read More
30 Jan 2025
Enhancing Education Research in Africa – Join the Conversation!
Are you a researcher, funder, or institutional leader working in African education research? Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA) and Southern Hemisphere, with support from Imaginable Futures, Echidna Giving, and Jacobs Foundation, invite you to a webinar exploring eight powerful interventions designed to strengthen education research across Africa. These interventions emerged from the Enhancing Education Research... Read More
30 Jan 2025
Ukubaluleka kobuchwepheshe : Ethical AI as a Tool for Decolonizing South Africa’s Early Childhood Development Sector
In this blogpost, Sithole kaMiya argues that AI presents a unique opportunity to reverse the historical trend of marginalizing Indigenous knowledge in South Africa’s education system, with a focus on early childhood education. However, it is vital to ensure that AI will not be used as a tool of assimilation but as a force of... Read More