UNESCO. EDUCATION THIS WEEK

 

EDUCATION THIS WEEK (12 – 16 April 2021)

THE POWER OF OPEN SCHOOL DATA IN EDUCATION

👀 Watch this short video prepared by @IIEP to showcase how open school data can promote citizen control over resources, help improve education service delivery, detect corruption at the school level, and enable citizens to stand up for their right to a quality education. To dive into the topic even further check out the Open School Data: Here’s your go-to guide and the Open School Data: What planners need to know publication.

UNESCO IN MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS

QandA featured on Le Monde (in French) with Borhene Chakroun (Director UNESCO HQ) Interview on Deutsche Welle en español with Claudia Uribe (Director of the Santiago UNESCO Bureau) Invest now to repair ‘huge’ learning loss, educators urge published by the Financial Times These 17 Countries Have Prioritized Teachers For Vaccination published by Forbes (including feature of Where are teachers prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine? map)

EDUCATION EVENTS THIS WEEK

Here are the main events coming up this week. For more information regarding these events and others, please visit the event’s page.  14 April  Education for sustainable development for 2030 framework and the World Conference : Time to act - Now or never Online workshop #7

15 April  Strategic planning in COVID-19 and beyond: Regional seminar on policy simulation and costing for higher education in the Arab States

LATEST NEWS

Digital learning is the way forward: high population countries rally around UN initiative New e-tool for better quality comprehensive sexuality education Time to invest in adolescent well-being UNESCO's Global Education Coalition helps grow Technovation Girls in key regions From Hate Speech to Genocide, Lessons from the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda The Open University of China awarded UNESCO Prize for its use of AI to empower rural learners UNESCO Prize awarded to a collaborative learning platform ViLLE from Finland Education in emergencies: The key role of crisis-sensitive information systems Innovative projects from China and Finland to receive UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for enhancing learning through Artificial Intelligence Scaling up digital learning and skills in the world’s most populous countries to drive education recovery We are proud of the first ever policy on inclusive education in Sierra Leone: the National Policy on Radical Inclusion in Schools Look after hidden out-of-school children in high-income countries as schools reopen

JUST PUBLISHED

AI and education: guidance for policy-makers   Les écoles dans la Zone UEMOA face à la Covid-19 : impacts, innovations & recommandations             Rapid teacher training for open, distance and online learning: massive open online course focus on Zimbabwe Policy brief on distance learning and hybrid learning in Afghanistan     UIL 2020 Annual Report     Funding equitable and high-quality early childhood education: highlights from the Gambia   Strengthening Higher Technical Education in Africa: UNESCO-China Funds-in-Trust Project     Inequality in learning achievement among migrant students in Latin America: evidence from the Third Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (TERCE) of the Latin-American Laboratory for the Assessment of Quality of Education (LLECE) (also in SP)

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