Making Globalisation Work for All?
This was the theme of the speech by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, end of April 2017, in a meeting hosted by the Danish OECD Presidency.
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Visionary Leadership For Digital Transformation, 2017
The event was organized in partnership with ICDE, UNESCO and the project D-Transform, who together took the initiative to mobilise globally for visionary leadership of digital transformation of higher education.
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Open Educational Resources (OER) – and ICDE
Info note in relation to the LangOER Conference on Open Education: Promoting diversity for European Languages, 26-27 September 2016.
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Policy Brief: Open Education Resources In Your Own Language, In Your Way
This policy brief from ICDE suggests policy recommendations for for the development of OER in less used languages and has been distributed to 53 Ministries of Education in Europe and beyond. The policy brief was produced as part of the LangOER project, of which ICDE is one of nine partners.
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Global Education Monitoring Report launched with urgent call to prioritize education to reach SDGs
In May 2015, the World Education Forum in Incheon (Republic of Korea), brought together 1,600 participants from 160 countries with a single goal in mind: how to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all by 2030?
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CHEA and IIEP-UNESCO Issue Advisory Statement on Combating Corruption in Higher Education
A call to action that highlights the problems posed by academic corruption in higher education and suggests ways that quality assurance bodies, government and higher education institutions around the world can combat corruption.
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UNESCO presents new finance model that could triple the availability of textbooks
A study by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM)* proposes an economic model that would help reduce the cost of textbooks and increase their availability to students in schools around the world.
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Education 2030 Framework for Action has been adopted
The Education 2030 Framework for Action (FFA) "Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all", provides guidance to countries for the implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goal 4, SDG4, Education 2030 agenda.
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How online, open and flexible support learning will support a sustainable future - a call for action High Level Policy Forum, Pretoria, 17 October 2015
News release from the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), UNESCO, Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Open Education Consortium (OEC) and the University of South Africa (UNISA).
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High Level Policy Forum, Pretoria, 17 October 2015
News release from the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), UNESCO, Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Open Education Consortium (OEC) and the University of South Africa (UNISA).
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High Level Policy Forum, Pretoria, 17 October 2015
The day after the 26th ICDE World Conference in South Africa, 130 leaders from universities, colleges, regional, transnational and international associations as well as global networks gathered together.
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26th ICDE World Conference, ICDE Presidents' Summit and High Level Policy Forum (13-17 October 2015, South Africa)
The conference, attended by nearly 1,000 participants from 67 countries across the globe, was a ‘three in one’ event. Three events ran at the same time – the world conference itself, the ICDE Presidents’ Summit and the High Level Policy Forum.
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Paris Message, 2015
The Paris Message has been issued by the Global High Level Policy Forum, organized by UNESCO in partnership with ICDE, held in Paris in June 2015. Over 150 participants – leading policy-makers, experts, senior management and stakeholders from higher education from all regions and more than 55 countries around the world - agreed to carry this message forward to their home countries and regions.
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ICDE - UNESCO Policy Forum on open, online and flexible learning calls for actions by governments, higher education institutions and faculty
Access to, and success in, open, online and flexible learning are key solutions to the pressing development challenges and needs of 21st century societies, emphasizes the November 2014 Bali message by ICDE’s higher education leaders.
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BRICS – ministers sign the Declaration of Brasília
Experts and representatives of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries met in Brazil on 2 March this year to discuss proposals for cooperation in professional and technological education, higher education, and joint methodologies for educational metrics.
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Policy Brief - Open Educational Resources in your Own Language, in your Way
This policy brief, authored by a team of ICDE staff as part of the LangOER project, suggests policy recommendations for governments to take action for the development of OER in Less Used Languages.
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UNESCO World Education Forum 2015 Declaration
ICDE is participating in two UNESCO events in Asia this month.
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Does the growth of distance learning mean that Open Universities risk becoming "the University of Last Resort"?
This was the question asked by Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa (Unisa), Mandla Makhanya, on the release of the Department for Higher Education and Training White Paper on Post-School Education and Training.
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