SDG 4 – Education 2030 Agenda

What has actually transpired globally, regionally and nationally since the Sustainable Development Agenda, including SDG 4, was confirmed in the UN General Assembly in 2015? Following the goal and target agreement for 2030, the question immediately became: ‘What next?’ How would these new targets be achieved? How would they be measured, and which indicators will be used? How will they be financed? Since the SDGs are aspirational global goals, a key issue becomes if, and how, they will be translated into national and international policies around the world over the coming years. NORRAG’s work in this area aims to stimulate critical and multi-perspective and multi-stakeholder discussions around SDG4 and the Education 2030 agenda and its impact on policy and practice.

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Find below the most recent NORRAG content on the topic of SDG4 and the Education 2030 Agenda:

News/Events

Invitation to the Swiss launch of the Global Education Monitoring Report 2019

The Swiss Launch of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report 2019 dedicated to “Migration, displacement and education: Building bridges, not walls” will take place on 21 February 2019 at SDC in Bern. The UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report was released on 20 November 2018 in Berlin. The report continues its...

5 December 2018, Geneva: Innovative Financing for Education and Development: Potential, Progress and Debates

NORRAG and the Centre for Finance and Development organised on 5 December a panel discussion on Innovative Financing for Education and Development. The panellists presented their experiences and insights with development financing in education and the potential role of innovative financing mechanisms for the achievement of SDG 4 on inclusive and equitable quality...

NORRAG at the 11th Policy Dialogue Forum on “Strengthening Teacher Education: A prerequisite for quality teaching, training and learning”, 5-9 November, 2018

NORRAG joined delegates at the Annual Meeting and 11th Policy Dialogue Forum, jointly organised by the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information of Jamaica and UNESCO (5-9 November 2018 in Montego Bay, Jamaica). The Annual meeting and 11th Policy Dialogue Forum...

SDG 4 Data Week, Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4 videos and resources

NORRAG recently organised two Brown Bag lunches on 11 and 13 July at the Graduate Institute, Geneva “SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4: Targets, Actors, Data and Resources”, with the support of the Education Network of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). The series aims...

SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4: Targets, Actors, Data and Resources

Read the post-event article including videos of the sessions and access to presentations UNESCO and its partners have designed a monitoring framework for the Education 2030 Agenda, but for those not involved in the development process, the SDG 4 data framework can pose a challenge. To address this, NORRAG organized...

NORRAG News 54 is now available in Arabic

Together with the support of the Al Qasimi Foundation NORRAG is pleased to share the Arabic version of NORRAG News 54 “Education, Training and Agenda 2030: What Progress One Year On?”. Articles are selected for Arabic translation based on their relevance and potential interest to policymakers in the MENA region....

“International Education Development Challenges and Agenda 2030”: Key takeaways on Youtube

The nomination of Gita Steiner-Khamsi, Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, University of Columbia, as new Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Director of NORRAG was the occasion to organize an Inaugural Panel Discussion on “International Education Development Challenges and Agenda 2030”....

Launch of NORRAG News 54 in China and international seminar on the Belt and Road initiative and Agenda 2030

NORRAG’s partner in the People’s Republic of China, the Institute of International and Comparative Education of Zhejiang Normal University, hosted an event for the launch of the Mandarin version of NORRAG News 54, alongside a high-level seminar looking at the relation between the education SDG 4 and the Belt and...

NORRAG Blog

Education is Our Best Defense Against Scapegoat Narratives – but Needs Consistent Investment by Clare O’ Hagan

This NORRAG Highlights is co-published by the World of Education Blog, Clare O’ Hagan, Communications Specialist at the Global Education Monitoring Report explains that education,...

Data to Celebrate 50 Years of Progress on Girls’ Education by Silvia Montoya

This NORRAG Highlights was prepared for the International Women’s Day and is published by Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), which...

What Makes a Good Classroom? New UIS Data on School Conditions by Silvia Montoya

This NORRAG Highlights was prepared by Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), which is the official UN repository for statistics in...

Landmark UN Youth Strategy brings new paradigm by placing youth as agents of change by Hiromi Amano

This NORRAG Highlights was prepared by Hiromi Amano, Youth and Livelihoods Officer at UNDP Sudan on the occasion of the launch on 24 September 2018...

Global movement for assessments of early childhood development and what’s missing in SDG4.2 by Kenji Kitamura

This NORRAG Highlights is published by Kenji Kitamura, master student in International Educational Development program at Teachers College, Columbia University. In this post, Kenji Kitamura...

Fit for purpose household survey tools in the SDG era by Sheena Bell

This NORRAG Highlights post is published in connection with “SDG4 Data Week: Understanding the Monitoring of SDG 4: Targets, Actors, Data and Resources”, held on...

Six Lessons from UNESCO’s 2018 Global Education Meeting by Will Brehm

This NORRAG Highlights is published in connection with the first Global Education Meeting which took place on 3-5 December 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. In this...

Framing the Future: PISA for Development and the Future of Education Governance by Euan Auld, Jeremy Rappleye, Paul Morris

In this NORRAG Highlights published in connection with the release of OECD’s Pisa for Development results, Euan Auld, Assistant Professor at The Education University of...

Education and Climate Change: is blaming ‘Western modernity’ the answer? by Edward Vickers

This NORRAG Highlights was prepared in response to the blog post by Iveta Silova, Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye: “Facing the Climate Change Catastrophe: Education...

The cost of knowledge: Education unions unite against the privatisation of scholarly research by Jon Tennant

This NORRAG Highlights is published by Dr. Jon Tennant, founder of Open Science MOOC and independent researcher at the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research...

When you have a dashboard hammer in your hand, everything looks like an infographic nail by Luis Crouch, Alex Pavluck and Julio Rank Wright

This NORRAG Highlights is published by Luis Crouch[1], Senior Economist in the International Development Group of RTI International, along with his colleagues and co-writers, Alex Pavluck...

Facing the Climate Change Catastrophe: Education as Solution or Cause? By Iveta Silova Hikaru Komatsu and Jeremy Rappleye

This NORRAG Highlights was prepared in response to the recent report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by Iveta Silova (Arizona State...

Even with all our new tech, quality learning still requires quality teachers: Reflections for World Teachers Day by Tara Stafford Ocansey

This NORRAG Highlights is published on the occasion of World Teachers Day, celebrated annually on 5 October. Tara Stafford Ocansey is the Senior Education Technology...

Helping Countries Make the Most of their Education Investments with the Global Content Framework of Reference for Reading by Silvia Montoya

Silvia Montoya is the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). This NORRAG Highlight is published on the occasion of International Literacy Day, celebrated...

Education, beyond public to common good: what implications for the Education 2030 Agenda? by Rita Locatelli

This blog post is part of the NORRAG Debates stream on the Right to Education. Rita Locatelli, research fellow at the UNESCO Chair of the...

Resource Library

NORRAG SPECIAL ISSUE 01: The Right to Education Movements and Policies: Promises and Realities (January 2018)

NORRAG NEWS #54: Education, Training and Agenda 2030: What Progress One Year On? (December 2016)

POLICY PAPER: The Governance of Education and Training: Agenda 2030 and Beyond (June 2016)

WORKING PAPER #9: The Global Targeting of Education and Skill: Policy History and Comparative Perspectives (November 2015)

Documents on the SDG4 and on the Education 2030 Agenda are available at the NORRAG Resource Library.

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