21 Mar 2024
One Size Fits … One: International Aid’s Struggle to Adapt to Local Contexts
In this blogpost, Jean-Marc Bernard reflects on the tendency of international aid agencies to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to development. He argues... Read More
20 Mar 2024
Re-claiming ‘the Conscience of Humanity’: UNESCO, the Futures of Education and the Threat to Democracy
In this cross-posted blogpost, Audrey Bryan critically examines UNESCO’s engagement with social-emotional learning, happiness, and the figure of the ideal learning citizen.... Read More
14 Mar 2024
The Evolution of School Inspection
In this blogpost, Mike Douse illustrates that, across the world, schools are inspected in various ways, for a variety of reasons, argues... Read More
12 Mar 2024
A Concerted Stride Towards Gender Equality in Education
In this cross-posted blogpost, Arushi Terway summarizes a panel discussion with international experts on the challenges of gender equality in education, held at the GPE... Read More
07 Mar 2024
Early Childhood Development is Intricately Linked to Women's Participation in Employment, Wellbeing and Social Capital
In Children in Crossfire’s early childhood development work in urban Dar es Salaam, increasingly it is becoming clear that working with children... Read More
29 Feb 2024
Reflections on What we Have Learned Since Completing the UNESCO Study on How to Improve the Use of Evidence in Education
NORRAG was commissioned by the UNESCO Education 2030 Section to provide research and recommendations on how to improve the use of evidence... Read More
22 Feb 2024
Let’s Drop the “Driver’s Seat” Mindset in International Aid
This text by Jean-Marc Bernard marks the launch of a three blogpost miniseries within a new NORRAG blog series on “Financing Education”.... Read More
15 Feb 2024
The OECD’s netFWD: A New Policy Network in Global Education Governance Towards “New Philanthropy”
In this blogpost, Sofia Viseu critically discusses the OECD’s netFWD, a transnational network of global philanthropic policy actors pursuing “new philanthropy” reasoning... Read More
08 Feb 2024
Pathways of World Bank Influence in Policy Formation in Education
In this blogpost, D. Brent Edwards Jr., Alejandro Caravaca, Annie Rappeport and Vanessa Sperduti summarize 11 “pathways” of World Bank influence on... Read More
01 Feb 2024
Foundational Learning Futures
On the occasion of the launch of NORRAG’s special issue (NSI 09) on “Foundational Learning: Debates and Praxes”, Hugh McLean reflects on... Read More