Date: Monday 18 November 2024.
Time: 10:00-15:30 (UK).
Location: Friend’s Meeting House, Euston Square, London NW1 2BJ; and online.
This event is co-organised by UKFIET; the Centre for International and Comparative Education (CIRE), University of Bristol; the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, University of Cambridge; and the Friends of Birzeit University (FOBZU), an education charity championing the right to education in Palestine.
Aims and objectives
- To hear first-hand from representatives of Palestinian education institutions in Gaza and Palestinian experts in the field about the background, nature and extent of the crisis in Gazan education and their priorities for international assistance.
- To launch a report on the crisis in schooling in Gaza and to hear updates from the Emergency Committee for Universities in Gaza.
- To consider how the UK international education and training community can best respond to the immediate needs of learners and educators in Gaza and how the community can contribute to the longer-term reconstruction of the education system in Gaza in partnership with Palestinian education institutions.