17 Dec 2019
Building New Bonds for Social Impact in Education
This post is part of the NORRAG Debates stream on Philanthropy in Education which contributes to the ongoing dialogue to help unpack ... Read More
07 Aug 2017
“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
08 Jun 2017
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), Mo ... Read More
03 Aug 2016
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 (MDGs) ... Read More
20 Jun 2016
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 2030 ... Read More
09 May 2016
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 that ... Read More
27 Apr 2016
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. The ... Read More
26 Feb 2016
Workplace-Based Learning in South Africa: Towards System-Wide Implementation By Ronel Blom
By Ronel Blom, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Workplace-based Learning (WBL) has been practiced in various forms in South Africa for years. However, ... Read More
23 Feb 2016
Expanding the Conception of Vocational Education and Training: Why the Reorganisation of South Africa’s Post-Schooling System offers New Opportunities By Volker Wedekind
By Volker Wedekind, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
In the context of the creation of a distinct Ministry of Higher Education and Training ... Read More
12 Feb 2015
Learning in Africa's Informal Economies, 1965-2015 By Robert Palmer
By Robert Palmer, NORRAG.
50 years ago, in 1965, a young doctoral student called Keith Hart arrived in Ghana to begin his fieldwork ... Read More