Enquiry

Colleagues and friends,

We are very sorry to inform you that UNESCO Public Seminar: Series Challenges and possibilities for Hong Kong in the international educational context will be postponed to early next year. Details of the seminar will be promulgated in due course.

Apology for any inconvenience caused.

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UNESCO Public Seminar:

Education and schooling for a fairer, more peaceful, more tolerant world 

by

Miss Ramya Vivekanandan Rodrigues

Programme Specialist, Quality of Education

Education Policy & Reform Unit

UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok)

Date:     7 November 2014 (Friday)

Time:    3:00 – 4:30 pm

Venue:  Institute’s Reception, Room A-G/F-08,

              Ground Floor, Administration Building,

              HKIEd Tai Po Campus

About the Keynote Speaker

 Ramya Vivekanandan Rodrigues is a Programme Specialist in the Education Policy and Reform Unit (EPR) at UNESCO Bangkok (Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education), a position she has held since January 2012. She is Team Leader for the programme on Quality of Education, with a focus on curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. In her position, Ramya also serves as Head of the Secretariat of the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) and additionally works on issues of ‘learning to live together’ and gender and learning achievement. Prior to joining UNESCO Bangkok, she worked for six years at UNESCO’s Education Sector in Paris on teacher issues as well as HIV and AIDS and education and school health. Before coming to UNESCO, she worked with a range of NGOs on education projects in various parts of Sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda, Senegal, Malawi and Angola as well as with the Ministry of Pre-University and Civic Education in the Republic of Guinea.  Ramya Vivekanandan Rodrigues holds a Master’s Degree in International Education Policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Discussant:

Dr. Gregory Fairbrother
Associate Head and Associate Professor,
Department of Social Sciences, HKIEd

Facilitators:

Professor Bob Adamson
Chair Professor of Curriculum Reform, HKIEd

All welcome
 

For registration, please email Benjamin at hcso@ied.edu.hk

** UNESCO Research Seminar Series is a HKIEd 20th Anniversary Celebratory Event, which is jointly organized by: the UNESCO Chair in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)and Lifelong Learning, the UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre (HK), the UNESCO Arts-in-Education Observatory for Research in Local Cultures and Creativity in Education (RLCCE), Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, and Centre for Governance and Citizenship.