ICDE Presidents' Forum 2020: Summary Report

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In November 2020, ICDE took the opportunity to reflect back and learn from the experiences from the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare tools and systems to reduce future disruptions to delivering education based on lessons learnt from the onset of the pandemic. On the 25 November 2020, Presidents, Vice-Chancellors, Principles, and Rectors of Higher Education providers among current ICDE Institutional Members and the Presidents and CEOs of partner organisations gathered for the ICDE Presidents’ Forum 2020 to focus discussions on “Recalibrating educational leadership for resilient education”.

It is was within this context that the 2020 ICDE President’s Forum was framed and this report provides a summary of outputs from ICDE members discussions that took place virtually across 6 regions within the space of 24 hours. Building on lessons learned from the 2019 Presidents’ Forum in combination with those learned from early COVID-19 responses, the 2020 ICDE Presidents’ Forum created a six-time zone, fully virtual, synchronous, and asynchronous forum for global leaders to share, contribute, and discuss those challenges relevant to ensuring we can create quality and resilient education systems long-term globally.

Together, Presidents, Vice-Chancellors, Principles and Rectors embraced the opportunity to connect and communicate through ways typically reserved for our many learners around the world. Through this forum, ICDE was able to capture regional differences and nuances in the many challenges and opportunities being faced by OFDL institutions globally. Simultaneously, we were able to identify commonalities that bring us all together in our ultimate goals of creating education opportunities around the globe.