Inclusive Education – Page 17

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Transforming Education for Disability Inclusion: A Call to Action for All Children.

The Transforming Education Summit (Saturday 17 September) was an opportunity for world leaders to commit to transforming education so that every child in the world can access quality, equitable, inclusive education and lifelong learning.

This includes the 240 million children with disabilities worldwide who, even before COVID-19 disruptions to education, experienced disparities in learning. Compared to children without disabilities, children with disabilities were 49% more likely to have never attended school and 42% less likely to have foundational reading and numeracy skills (UNICEF, 2021).

Transforming education to reach all learners, including those with disabilities, is needed to ensure resilient and inclusive education systems. Solutions that support the inclusion of learners with disabilities, who are often those most at risk of neglect, stigma and abuse, are the same approaches that support the well-being and success of all learners.

This is an ambitious call to action.

Deadline expired [Webinar]: Leonard Cheshire and FHI60 roundtable on inclusive education – 6 October 2022

Date: 06 October 2022.

Time: 09:30-11:00 EST (14:30-16:00 BST and 15:30-17:00 CET).

Leonard Cheshire in partnership with FHI360 has organised a virtual roundtable event on Inclusive Education and Adolescent Girls to honour International Day of the Girl Child.

Judith Herbertson, Head of Girls’ Education at FCDO will be one of the key speakers, alongside Joanie Cohen Mitchell from USAID and Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo from the World Bank. The event will be moderated by one of Leonard Cheshire’s youth alumni, Maria Njeri.

More information about the event can be found on the FHI360 events page.

Deadline expired [Webinars]: Realising SDG4 – What more should we be doing for girls education?

Following the successful in-person UKFIET/Girls’ Education Challenge event in Oxford: ‘Realising SDG 4: What More Should Be Done for Girls’ Education?’ UKFIET would like to invite participants to some webinars that will add to the discussion.

UKFIET is very aware that not everyone was able to attend the in-person event and is keen to gather as many reflections as possible on the four themes (Ambition, Gaps, Linkages and Actions) that were discussed in relation to girls’ education.

The output of both the in-person event and webinars will be a set of collectively agreed-upon priorities and next steps for each key area, due to be published in the autumn.

Register for Ambition Webinar.

Date: 28 September 2022.

Time: 11.00 – 12.00 BST.

Stakeholder groups tend to focus on different levels, types and degrees of ambition for girls’ education, leading to a lack of coherence. How can we strengthen alignment so that differences amongst actors can be used as a lever, as opposed to a barrier, for change?

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Register for Gaps Webinar.

Date: 28 September 2022.

Time: 12.00 – 13.00 BST

How can stakeholders be more aligned regarding the conceptual, discursive and practical gaps surrounding girls’ education, so that there can be a coherent and collective approach to addressing gaps?

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Register for Linkages Webinar.

Date: 29 September 2022.

Time: 11.00 – 12.00 BST.

Overall, stakeholder groups tend to have different approaches, areas of focus and priorities regarding their work on girls’ education, leading to a lack of coherence. How can we strengthen awareness and alignment so that differences amongst actors can be used as a lever, as opposed to a barrier, for change?

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Register for Actions Webinar.

Date: 29 September 2022.

Time: 12.00 – 13.00 BST.

Stakeholders often engage in activities/actions that have different areas of focus, scope and approach. This leads to a sometimes fractured and/or duplicative landscape of projects and programming, at both the global and country level. How can we strengthen awareness of different stakeholder activities/actions, so that greater alignment and coherence can be achieved?

Deadline expired [Webinar]: the Raised Mathematics Project – 27 and 28 September 2022

Date: 27 and 28 September 2022.

Location: online.

NextSense, in collaboration with the Raised Mathematics Project Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities, and ICEVI invite you to two online presentations.

The Raised Mathematics Project works on the automated conversion of mathematical content into accessible formats. The presentations will focus on common challenges involved in transcription, and progress made to date. They will make the case that semantically rich source files are needed to produce adequate tactile and audio-tactile forms of scientific materials.

You can learn more about the project and register on the Next Sense website.

Deadline expired Trustee vacancy – Acorn Early Years Foundation – closing date 22 September

Remote.

Unpaid role.

Contract, 3 years, part-time.

Acorn Early Years is a charitable social enterprise providing childcare and early education, operating day nurseries, forest schools, out-of-school clubs, and specialist early years catering and training services. We are growing rapidly, despite the challenges facing the sector, with just over 400 employees, 17 nurseries and an expected turnover of approximately £10m this year.

We now have vacancies for two trustees and are particularly keen to recruit individuals who have some knowledge or experience of early years, education, training or finance.

Being a trustee is an unpaid role usually lasting at least three years. To carry out the duties of a trustee you will need to take part in about five board meetings each year, held in Milton Keynes.

Please check out our website for more information and an applicant pack.

[New resource]: INEE Background paper on distance education in emergencies

INEE Background paper on distance education in emergencies.

This background paper highlights specific challenges, lessons learned, practices, and actions to consider when aiming to provide quality, principles-based distance education (DE) in emergencies. The paper considers inclusion and equity to be key guiding principles for education in general and calls for their application across all education modalities, especially distance education.

This paper also presents useful ideas and actions for planning, offering, or monitoring and evaluating distance education in emergencies, accompanied by examples of possible adaptations of key actions in various situations. It offers advice on three focus areas: teacher professional development in DE, utilizing technology for DE, and enabling policies for DE in emergencies. This advice is complemented by evidence-based recommendations for tackling practical difficulties.

This paper is available only in English at this time.

Deadline expired [Transforming Education Summit]: reimagining education systems 16 – 19 Sept 2022

Dates: 16-19 September 2022.
Location: New York City, US.

The ‘Transforming Education Summit’ will take place during the 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), on 16, 17, and 19 September 2022. It aims to mobilize political ambition, action, solidarity, and solutions with a view to transforming education between now and 2030.

The Summit, convened by the UN Secretary-General, aims to take stock of efforts to recover pandemic-related learning losses, reimagine education systems for the world of today and tomorrow, and revitalize national and global efforts to achieve SDG 4 (quality education).

The main expected outcomes are:

National and international commitments to transform education;
Greater public engagement around and support for transforming education; and
A Secretary General’s summary and call to action, which will capture the knowledge and commitments generated by the Summit and its preparatory process.

Check out the website for more information and subscribe to receive SDG event notices, news, and analysis in your inbox.

Deadline expired [Online learning]: Girls not brides: Supporting married girls and adolescent mothers 21 Sept 2022

Supporting married girls and adolescent mothers.

Date: Thursday, 21 September 2022.
Time: 07.00 Mexico City / 13.00 London / 15.00 Nairobi / 17.30 New Delhi.

Girls Not Brides welcome you to join the third session of Girls Not Brides’ online learning series!

This webinar will be a space to learn about:

The links between child marriage and adolescent motherhood around the world.
Promising work being carried out by Girls Not Brides member organisations to support married girls and adolescent mothers.
How support for adolescent mothers can be integrated into the education, health and child protection sectors.

You can find out more about the learning series and access recordings and resources from previous sessions on the website.

Simultaneous interpretation will be available in English, French and Spanish.

Deadline expired [Q&A session]: Girls’ perspectives on the effect of pregnancy and marriage on education – 13 Sept 2022

Webinar: Teenage pregnancies and early marriage in Kenya: Girls’ perspectives on the effect on education.

Date: 13 September 2022.

Time: 16:00-17:00 (UTC+3) Nairobi time (time zone converter).

The Government of Kenya has ratified various international protocols and developed several national education policies and laws that promote efforts toward national and international goals. Despite this, bringing girls to school, retaining them, and transitioning them to higher levels have remained negatively affected by several factors in different regions of Kenya.

Two issues severely affecting girls’ education are teenage pregnancies and early marriage. Through this INEE Community of Practice conversation organized by the #kenya channel, we will hear directly from NoonKopir Girls Secondary School students on how their and other students’ education has been impacted by teenage pregnancies and early marriage, and get insights on their knowledge of sexual health.

An open discussion/Q&A between the students and participants will also be facilitated.

(After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the web event).

N.B. This web event will be conducted in English with closed captioning in English.

Deadline expired [Webinar]: Achieving transformative change for out-of-school children and youth – 07 September 2022

[WEBINAR] What will it take to achieve transformative change for
out-of-school children and youth?

Date: Wednesday 07 September 2022.

Time: 13:00-14:00 UTC.

The Accelerating Change for Children and Youths’ Education through Systems Strengthening (ACCESS) research project, is a collaborative endeavor between the University of Auckland and the INEE AEWG and is funded through the Evidence for Education in Emergencies (E-Cubed) research envelope supported by Dubai Cares.

In the first year of the project, researchers in Colombia, Uganda, Nigeria, Jordan, and Pakistan investigated the political economy of Accelerated Education (AE) education provision for out-of-school children and youth (OOSCY), with particular attention to the funding, provision and regulation of such programs.

The webinar will focus on the research undertaken in Colombia, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Uganda.

To register for the webinar please see the website.