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[Webinar] Middle tier leaders in education

Dates: 21 and 23 February 2023.

The UNESCO International Institute of Educational Planning (IIEP) and Education Development Trust (EDT) will examine two central questions in this 2-part webinar series: how can instructional leaders positioned at the middle tier of education systems improve teaching and learning? What does it take for instructional leaders at the middle tier to be successful?

Celebrating the launch of a new research report from IIEP and EDT, Leading teaching and learning together: the role of the middle tier, the webinars will explore the role of a critical but too often neglected set of actors: those working at the ‘middle’ of education systems, such as district education officers, network facilitators, supervisors or teacher mentors. Together, these actors can contribute to improve the quality of education, by acting as mediators of new policies to the frontline and instructional leaders who work across schools to support the improvement of teaching and learning.

  • Part 1: Lessons learned: How can the middle tier improve teaching and learning?
  • Date: 21st February 2023
  • Time: 9:30 – 11:00 GMT

Register for Part 1

  • Part 2: From policy to implementation: What does it take for instructional leaders at the middle tier to be successful?
  • Date: 23 February 2023
  • Time: 13:30 – 15:00 GMT

Register for Part 2

 

[Competition] World Bank and Financial Times Youth Blog competition 2023

Deadline: 1 April 2023.

Three years after the arrival of COVID-19, educators and governments are still grappling with the pandemic’s aftermath. They are working to make up the crucial time lost during COVID-related closures, to position students for successful lives.

The future doesn’t have to be dark. There’s still time to recover learning losses and put a generation of students on track to thrive in the jobs of the future.

The World Bank and Financial Times invite 16-19 year old’s to enter their 5th annual blog writing competition.  This year’s entries must focus on experiences with post-COVID education and ideas for the way forward.

How is your country’s education system recovering from learning losses of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what more can it do to prepare young people for the jobs of the future?

  • Participants must be enrolled in high school or a version of secondary education and should be between the ages of 16-19 years at the time of submission.
  • Entries can be submitted in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
  • The winning entries will be published in English.
  • There is no fee payable to enter the competition.

Deadline: 01 April 2023

Good luck!

[Webinar] Education Cannot Wait – High-Level Financing Conference

Date: 16-17 February 2023.

INEE invites participants to virtually participate in Education Cannot Wait’s upcoming High-Level Financing Conference (#HLFC2023), taking place in Geneva on 16-17 February. The Conference is co-hosted by Switzerland and Education Cannot Wait, and co-convened by Colombia, Germany, Niger, Norway and South Sudan.

ECW’s #HLFC2023 features world leaders and education experts discussing a diverse range of education in emergencies and protracted crises issues. Plenary sessions and discussion panels will be live-streamed on the HLFC web platform.  HLFC will be accessible in English, Arabic, French, Spanish and sign language.

Read the full agenda.

Register for the event.

 

[Webinar] What does it mean to ‘adapt an innovation’ when scaling global development projects?

Date: 02 March 2023.

Time: 13.00 – 14.00.

Venue: Jennie Lee Building L1 Blue Ash, The Open University, Milton Keynes (hybrid event).

The Centre for the Study of Global Development is delighted to commence their external seminar series for 2023.

Adaptation as a dynamic two-way open process, which is participatory, relational and positions participants at all levels of the system as knowledgeable experts.   A key challenge is to create conditions in which there are opportunities for all participants to be agentive to experiment with different adaptations within regimes of accountability.

This seminar will draw on emerging findings from education projects in different contexts which aim for system change to illustrate how adaptation has occurred in practice and share a tentative model for adaptation to prompt discussion of adaptation in different sectors such as health, nutrition and youth employment, and contexts.

See the website for more information and to register.

[Webinar] Disability under siege: Decolonising disability in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine ~ 05 Feb 2023

Date: 05 February 2023.

Time: 15.00 – 16.00 UK time GMT.

Most of the knowledge on disability has been produced in the Global North, despite the majority of disabled people being in the Global South. Not only is disability higher in these countries and its effects exacerbated by the sociopolitical conditions, infrastructure and attitudes to disability, but disability also arises as a direct result of conflict and armed violence. The link between conflict, disability and access to education has been relatively under- examined.

This talk discusses the Disability Under Siege Network Plus Programme working with partners in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine, addressing the fundamental challenge that most children with disability in the region never go to school.

Check out the webpage for more information and to register for the event. 

[Webinar] Stepping up or falling behind? Students, universities and climate crisis

Date: 08 February 2023.

Time: 9:00-10:30 (UK time).

In this online presentation, UKFIET discuss the findings from a large-scale survey conducted among undergraduate students in twelve universities in Brazil, Fiji, Mozambique and Kenya carried out as part of the Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate (Climate-U) project.

The survey centres on students’ attitudes and experiences in relation to climate change and perceptions of climate action in their universities. Overall, in all countries, students reported that they were most likely to learn about climate change from internet and social media sources. There is strong consensus that students should be learning more about climate change at their universities and that they are not satisfied with current learning.

Take a look on their webpage for more information and to register.

** Deadline expired ** Global Inclusive Education Adviser – CBM

Location: Flexible, wherever CBM has a permanent presence.

Application deadline: 1 March 2023.

Read the full job description.

CBM is an international development organisation committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the persons communities of the world. They address poverty as a cause and a consequence of disability and work in partnership to create an inclusive society for all.

They are looking to recruit a Global Advisor – Inclusive Education within the Community Based Inclusive Development Initiative.

Please see their website for more job details and how to apply.

Applications are due by the 1st March 2023.

 

[Advocacy] Education rights for pregnant pupils and teenage mothers, Mauritius

Experts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child have commended Mauritius on new legislation for children including the rights of pregnant school pupils and teenage mothers.

Aissatou Alassane Sidikou, Committee Expert and Member of the Taskforce for Mauritius, discussed what measures had been taken to ensure respect for Government policies concerning the rights of pregnant school pupils and teenage mothers.

The delegation said pregnant teenage mothers could continue with their schooling and were provided with spaces for breastfeeding.  When these teenagers returned to school, arrangements were made with the Ministry of Education to provide support for the mothers.  Students were encouraged to attend school until delivery time, and an education psychologist was provided upon request.  Non-governmental organizations also worked with the Ministry to address the situation of teenage pregnancies.

Read more about the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of Mauritius on the OHCHR website. 

[UK advocacy] ALLFIE to build new coalition on fight for inclusive education

The Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFIE) is the disabled people’s organisation leading the fight for inclusive education in the UK is building a new coalition of allies and supporters to end segregation and push for mainstream education for all disabled people.  ALLFIE hopes the coalition will draft new legislation on inclusive education and push for it to be introduced in parliament.

The coalition will look to address the lack of funding and support for disabled children in mainstream settings, which forces parents to seek places in segregated special schools and colleges, and the disproportionate number of disabled children excluded from mainstream schools and colleges for “behavioural” reasons.  They will also look at the links between segregated education and poverty, and the experiences of black and other global majority children.

Read more about the coalition on the webpage.