The case for demand-driven evidence in education reform
What is the most important thing we can do to get evidence to drive education reform at the highest levels? This is an age-old question as much as it is a pressing and relevant challenge today.
Category: Policymaking
Making all schools into academies in the UK is wrong
England’s school system has undergone a radical transformation since 2010 with thousands of schools transferred into the control of private organisations called academy trusts. These are hybrid organisations – not-for-profit private trusts subject to company law which receive state funding but operate via a contract with central government, rather than…
Great Buys, Good Buys, and Bad Buys
In this NORRAG Highlights, Joel Samoff, Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg looks at the World Bank’s business of providing policy advice to poor...
Contributing to COP 26 in Glasgow
This video was produced for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) to be held in Glasgow during the first week of November 2021. More information can be found on the University of...
Listening to African Researchers: Making sure evidence informs education policy and practice
This blog was written by Samuel Asare, Pauline Essah and Izel Kipruto from Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA); and Pauline Rose and Sandra Baxter from the Research for Equitable Access...
Family literacy and indigenous learning ‘reimagined’ within international development policy and practice
This article was written by Catherine Jere, Associate Professor, School of International Development, University of East Anglia and Gina Lontoc, Associate Professor, Research Center for...