The Centre for Global Development through Education Programme for Teacher Educator Exchange Planning Day took place on Friday the 19th of March in preparation for the upcoming trips in April. The group consisted of the team of teacher educators from CGDE partner HEI’s (north and south of Ireland) undertaking the Teacher Educator Exchange Programme in both Uganda and Lesotho.

Christian Aid has in the main not become involved in the formal education sector. Instead, Christian Aid and its partners have consistently tried to address the need for education for those outside the school system, excluded due to poverty, marginalisation, gender inequity, age, etc. The talk explored this non-formal sector, and in particular focused on the case of the Sierra Leone programme at present.

The Teacher Education, Management and Professionalisation Reform Summit took place at the Serena Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, on Monday the 8th and Tuesday the 9th of March 2010, and Dr Rosarii Griffin, Director of CGDE, was invited as one of the international keynote speakers.

Irish Aid highlighted the importance of education for women and girls on the 8th March this year to mark International Woman’s Day. The Education for All (EFA) 2010 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) with a focus on Reaching the Marginalised was launched by Peter Power, T.D. Minister of State for Overseas Development, and hosted at the Limerick headquarters of Irish Aid.

The UNESCO/UKFIET Colloquium on the Global Monitoring Report of 2010: “Reaching the Marginalised” took place on the 8th of March 2010 in London and was attended by Dr James Urwick on behalf of CGDE.

Fairtrade, a social, economic and civic empowerment movement, has grown from strength to strength in recent years, both nationally [...]

The theory and principles of Development are the basis on which First World educators approach Third World interventions. However, for smaller NGOs in particular, there is often a different dynamic.

Projects established in Cape Town by Protea Education Development Project have state-of-the-art computer technology at their core. The project include additional support services, such as school feeding programmes, health and intensive ICT programmes.

On Wednesday 20th January 2010, the Graduate Entry Medical School hosted a Public Lecture by Dr. Robert Gallo (Co-discoverer of the AIDS virus) on the theme of’ ‘Viruses, Epidemics and Putting an End to Deadly Diseases in the 21st Century’ in the Jean Monet Lecture Theatre, University of Limerick. Dr Gallo, speaking to a packed auditorium, gave a riveting lecture for over an hour and a half long, keeping his audience captivated and keen to learn more.

Colin Brock examiness the notion of ‘humanitarian’ in relation to educational needs and proposes a holistic response as being one of the functions of education in the developing world.