06 Sep 2021
13 September 2021: IJED debate - Aid Futures, Agencies, Architectures and Modalities beyond 2021
The International Journal of Educational Development (IJED) will hold a webinar on the issue of the future of aid to education, global educational architecture, and the modalities needed to accelerate educational development. The event will take place on 13 September 2021 at 17:30 Geneva time, 16.30 (BST), 11.30 (EST). Three papers (Burnett (2019), Lewin (2020)... Read More
03 Sep 2021
University of Helsinki FuturEducation online lecture series starts in September
“FuturEducation: Future Trajectories of Education and the Emergence of Precision Education Governance” is an open international online lecture series initiated by the Education and Society research community at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, the University of Helsinki. The lectures are open for everyone and do not require registration, excluding doctoral students who wish to complete... Read More
01 Sep 2021
NSI 05 authors speak at UKFIET panel on financing education
Authors of NORRAG Special Issue 05 – Domestic Financing: Tax and Education, published in November 2020, will participate in a panel chaired by NSI 05 guest editor David Archer of ActionAid UK. The session will take place on 16 September 2021 at 12:30 BST at the UKFIET 2021 Conference “Building Back Better in Education and... Read More
01 Sep 2021
6 October 2021: TWICE INVISIBLE: A lack of data in crises leaves the education of Internally Displaced Children behind. Time to act! at UN World Data Forum 2021
NORRAG, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Development Initiatives, UK, co-organised on 6 October 2021 a session at the UN World Data Forum 2021. “TWICE INVISIBLE: A lack of data in crises leaves the education of Internally Displaced Children behind. Time to act!” focused on the issue of internally displaced children in... Read More
01 Sep 2021
Announcing NORRAG Special Issue 06: States of Emergency: Education in the Time of COVID-19
The launch date for the sixth edition of NORRAG Special Issue (NSI) will be announced in September 2021 at UKFIET 2021. Entitled “States of Emergency: Education in the Time of COVID-19,” NSI 06 seeks to conceptualise the multiple emergencies brought about by COVID-19 as it presents the world not only with a biological and health... Read More
01 Sep 2021
Dr Elena Kardanova Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia
русский I العربية This episode of the KIX EAP Podcast hosted by Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor, Chapman University (USA) features Dr Elena Kardanova, Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia and Director at the Institute of Education’s Centre for Psychometrics and Measurement in Education. Dr Kardanova discusses how... Read More
26 Aug 2021
IDRC KIX panel at UKFIET examines the uptake of global public goods at national level
On 16 September 2021, the GPE Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) Europe I Asia I Pacific (EAP) hub will take part in a symposium on “Global Public Goods and the KIX initiative: Opportunities and Challenges of Knowledge Production and Uptake at the National Level”. As part of the UKFIET annual conference, the symposium, organised by... Read More
11 Aug 2021
Great Buys, Good Buys, and Bad Buys
In this NORRAG Highlights, Joel Samoff, Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg looks at the World Bank’s business of providing policy advice to poor countries and specifically investigates the WB’s Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP) first report, Cost-Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning and highlight three problematic “threads” within its... Read More
04 Aug 2021
KIX EAP Podcast #5: Dr Bal Chandra Luitel, Professor, Kathmandu University’s School of Education
This episode of the KIX EAP Podcast hosted by Ryan Allen, Assistant Professor, Chapman University (USA) features Bal Chandra Luitel (PhD), Professor at Kathmandu University’s School of Education, located in Dhulikhel, Nepal. Dr Luitel discusses transformative math and the challenges in training teachers with this unconventional paradigm in Nepal. The KIX EAP Podcast promotes a diversity of... Read More
27 Jul 2021
Teachers as Agents of Change: Supporting, Enabling, and Empowering
русский I العربية Abstract: This NORRAG Highlights is written by guest authors David Frost, a founder member of the Board of Trustees for HertsCam Network, and Gulmira Qanay, President of the Kazakhstan State Women’s Pedagogical University. The post explores the efforts of the HertsCam Network to empower teachers as agent of change through a ‘non-positional... Read More