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WHAT IS NORRAG NEWS? | |
NORRAG NEWS is a biannual Newsletter, edited by Professor Kenneth King, which critically examines a specific, topical theme in the area of education, training and aid policy. For example, the last four editions of NORRAG NEWS have covered the following topics: NN38: (2007) Technical and Vocational Skills Development. NN37: (2006) Special Theme on Education and Training out of Poverty? A Status Report. NN36: (2005) Special Theme on 2005 –The Development Year? Millennium Project & World Summit & the Commission for Africa and G8 Implications for Education, Training & Partnership. NN35: (2005) Critical Perspectives on Gender, Education and Skills in Western and Central Africa at Basic and Post-Basic Levels. NORRAG’S Niche Since 1986, there have been many electronic NEWSletters and valuable data-bases developed (e.g. ELDIS-Education, ELDIS-Aid and Debt Reporter, and id21). These latter have brought together in summary form recent publications, including of research commissioned by aid agencies such as DFID. But they have left to the reader the task of critically assessing the multiple messages from all this publication, policy work and research. The niche of NORRAG has been to identify a number of ‘red threads’ running through the complexity of the debates and the current discourse, and to dedicate special issues of NORRAG NEWS to these themes. It has sought to provide to the policy community – as well as the academic community – short, sharp ways of looking at major events, substantial projects, and weighty publications. NORRAG’s role is clearly, therefore, in the arena of critical advocacy both in the North and in the South. And NORRAG NEWS is our main dissemination tool. At the moment, most issues of NORRAG NEWS have been around 70 pages long (around 35,000 words), but there has not been routinely available, in short form, a Policy Brief which captured the main issues for debate or for advocacy. In order to get the key messages across in a shorter form, it was decided to introduce short policy briefs to accompany each edition of NORRAG NEWS. These have been available since NN36. NORRAG NEWS 38 - POLICY BRIEF Technical and Vocational Skills Development NORRAG NEWS 37 - POLICY BRIEF Special Theme on Education and Training out of Proverty? A Status Report NORRAG NEWS 36 - POLICY BRIEF Special Theme on 2005 –The Development Year? Millennium Project & World Summit & the Commission for Africa and G8 Implications for Education, Training & Partnership To download these policy briefs as a pdf file please login or register for free here then you will have access to the full list of NORRAG News issues, including the policy briefs. |
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