ICDE President's Forum 2020

Education is the driver for future sustainable societies and cuts across all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). If we disrupt education, we disrupt our future.

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a wakeup call for educational and world leaders. 

We are faced with unprecedented disruptions that are not only transforming socio-economic and governance systems worldwide, but exponentially impacting and setting back, in many cases by decades, our educational systems.

A universal call for help was raised by educational providers and governments earlier this year as they scrambled to ensure learning continues during the fall out caused by the pandemic, with the spotlight turning to the opportunities afforded through open, flexible and distant learning (OFDL) modalities. In some cases, even our OFDL colleagues experienced significant disruption and setback.

ICDE responded immediately by mobilising its global network of experts in OFDL in the #LearningTogether campaign. Now months into the global pandemic, ICDE sees this current societal disruption as an opportunity to collectively reflect on and re-imagine how we as educational leaders can re-calibrate our focus to build resilient, robust and strong educational systems that will withstand future societal challenges. And how do we learn from the experiences from the current pandemic to prepare tools and systems to reduce these?

It is within this context that the 2020 ICDE President’s Forum is framed.

Visit the dedicated Forum webpages to see pre-Forum materials, Satellite Engagement Events and information about the Forum here: https://www.icde.org/pf2020