Global Response to Climate Change Keeps Door Open to 2º C Temperature Limit #COP21
New UN Report Synthesizes National Climate Plans from 146 Countries An unprecedented world-wide effort is underway to combat climate change, building confidence that nations can cost effectively meet their stated objective of keeping a global temperature rise to under 2 degree C. A report released today by the UNFCCC secretariat, assessing the collective impact of over […]
END 2016 – Education and New Developments
END 2016 – Education and New Developments 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia: send your abstract until 2 November, 2015 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (1st Call – New Date) International Conference on Education and New Developments 2016 (END 2016) 12 to 14 of June, 2016 – Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www.end-educationconference.org/ = Important Dates = Abstract submissions (2nd […]
The Disadvantaged & Underprivileged Featured In Child-made Movies Shown at SICF
The fragility of human relations and the complex emotions of those who are marginalized in modern societies are both featured in films shown at the Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival. “The Other Neighborhood” a film which won the Best Child-Made Film Award at yesterday’s opening ceremony discusses a neighborhood that is deemed dangerous by the […]
OMAN – A NEW DESTINATION FOR E-LEARNING
According to latest research conducted by Docebo, Middle East e-learning market to grow 8.2% yearly until 2016. Global and regional education suppliers are raising their stakes in the Middle East as the region’s e-learning market sees revenues rising to $560.7 million by 2016 amid a very competitive growing size of the self-paced e-learning market. Oman […]
2015 #EFA #Gender Report: Less than half of countries have achieved gender parity in #education
A new Gender Report compiled by UNESCO’s EFA Global Monitoring Report (GMR) for International Day of the Girl Child, shows that fewer than half of countries – of which none in sub-Saharan Africa – have achieved the goal of gender parity in both primary and secondary education, even though all were supposed to achieve it […]
The 2nd Higher #Education Leadership Forum #MENA
Where Leaders of Higher Education Meet 9th– 11th November, 2015 | Dusit Thani, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Under the Gracious Patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Culture, Youth, and Community Development UAE The MENA Higher Education Leadership Forum (MENA-HELF) is the region’s premier dynamic network established with the […]
Laureates named for UNESCO’s newly-created Prize on Education for Sustainable Development
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has announced the winners of the UNESCO-Japan Prize on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This is the first edition of the Prize, which was created in 2014. The three laureates are Asociación SERES from Guatemala and El Salvador; the Centre for Development of Early Childhood, Non-Formal and Informal Education from Indonesia; […]
3rd Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival
Jury of the 3rd Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival unveils main challenges in the evaluation and selection process Challenges arise during its efforts to select winners of the SICFF Awards FUNN, the Sharjah-based foundation dedicated to promoting media arts for and among children and youth in the UAE, has announced that the jury of the 3rd edition […]
Cartas de Federico Mayor Zaragoza al Presidente Barack Obama y a las ONG de las Naciones Unidas
Ante procesos potencialmente irreversibles no caben aplazamientos: en cuestiones de medio ambiente y de dignidad humana pueden alcanzarse puntos de no retorno. Sería una irresponsabilidad histórica permitir que la habitabilidad de la Tierra se deteriorara. Y no remediar el drama humano de los refugiados e inmigrantes. Y no detener la locura del llamado Estado Islámico. […]
Book Review—A Jewel on a Silver Platter: Remembering Jiddu Krishnamurti
Padmanabhan Krishna, Ph.D., a long standing member of the Theosophical Society, has written A Jewel on a Silver Platter: Remembering Jiddu Krishnamurti. The book is a collection of personal accounts about this modern spiritual teacher by the author and others who knew him well. Prof. Krishna not only is a trustee of the Krishnamurti […]
