Evidence before Marketing: Recalling the Known, Independently Verified Facts about Bridge International Academies by 113 Signatories as Collective Authors
This post is published as part of the NORRAG Debates stream on the Right to Education. It is the latest response in a... Read More
“Learning, if you use it, increases”: a database of African education research to inform policy and practice by Rafael Mitchell and Pauline Rose
Rafael Mitchell is a Research Associate at the REAL Centre, University of Cambridge. Pauline Rose is Director at the REAL Centre, University... Read More
Creating Productive Jobs for Africa’s Youth: A Huge Challenge with Global Implications by Birger Fredriksen
By Birger Fredriksen, Results for Development. In an article in the Financial Times (“Africa’s youth, frustrated and jobless, demand attention”, April 13),... Read More
Outsourcing Liberia’s Education System: A New level of Absurdity in Education Provisioning by Salim Akoojee
By Salim Akoojee, Independent Education and Training Analyst, South Africa and Hong Kong. The recent move to outsource Liberia’s education system in... Read More
Why Skills Development? In Asia, a Basic Education is Not Enough Anymore by Sungsup Ra
By Sungsup Ra, Asian Development Bank. In the past three decades, economic growth in Asia has been the envy of the world.... Read More
The Governance of Education and Training Agenda 2030 and Beyond: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa by Peliwe Lolwana
By Peliwe Lolwana, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. As the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pick up from where the Millennium Development Goals... Read More
Can African Universities Deliver Knowledge for ‘Transforming our World’ Without Decolonizing the Academy? By Hanne Kristine Adriansen
By Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Aarhus University, Denmark. In the UN document of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Transforming our World: the... Read More
Weak Institutional Capacity: A Growing Barrier to Reaching the Education Sustainable Development Goal in sub-Saharan Africa By Birger Fredriksen
By Birger Fredriksen, Results for Development Institute. A blog posted on April 27th on NORRAG NEWSbite reflected on the massively increased funding... Read More
Funding Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Can the Momentum be Maintained During the Current Economic Slowdown? By Birger Fredriksen
By Birger Fredriksen, Results for Development Institute. The impact of good quality education on a country’s economic growth is now quite well understood.... Read More
Countering Violent Extremism – can Education and Vocational Training Play a Role? By Martine Zeuthen
By Martine Zeuthen, The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). European specialists in Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) and education programming gathered in Geneva... Read More
