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Continous Learning
> Back to Learning and EarningLearning does not stop when students leave school. It is a life ...
Watch WISE 2011 Sessions
Debates, focus sessions and interviews were filmed during the three fully packed days at WISE 20 ...
Speakers 2010
DAY 1OPENING PLENARY SESSIONH.E. Lakhdar Brahimi, Former Under Secretary General of t ...
Speakers 2011
WISE 2011 Speakers and Chairs WISE Speakers and Chairs came from more than 40 differe ...
2011 Finalists
The 20 selected projects for 2011 are (in alphabetical order):Project : ...
UNESCO
UNESCO works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peopl ...
ACU
Established in 1913, the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) is the oldest inte ...
Learning World
Vocational Training
Driving school (Afghanistan) - Driving in Afghanistan has long been a male dominated activity, b ...
After Calamity Strikes
Drought - Profile (Kenya) - In Wajir, Kenya, Ali Youssef Omar, in an attempt to save his last tw ...
Lighting the Way for Women
Profile of Sakena Yacoobi (Afghanistan) – In the mid-90s Sakena Yacoobi left a comfortable life ...
Ending Exclusion
Kuchi Nomads (Afghanistan) – In the poor muddy slums of Afghanistan, many families from nomadic, ...
Teaching Indigenous Culture
Maori School (New Zealand) - They were the first settlers in New Zealand, but now they are an in ...
Teaching Indigenous Culture
Forest School (Ethiopia) - Highly venerated, nature has always played an important role in indig ...
Teaching Indigenous Culture
Indigenous University (Bolivia) - Prior to European colonization, the Andean region of Bolivia w ...
What future for books in the digital age?
E-books are still in their infancy and have to be developed in many areas before they can be ful ...
Who am I? - identity and education
For students in central Mexico, Teatro Campesino or Campesino Theatre is about more than preserv ...
Dancing into the future
Bilgi University’s Arts and Culture Management Programmes offer an environment of inspiration fo ...
Finland - First in class
This week Learning World is looking at Finland, which is recognised worldwide for its top-rankin ...
Finland - First in class
This week Learning World is looking at Finland, which is recognised worldwide for its top-rankin ...
Finland - First in class
This week Learning World is looking at Finland, which is recognised worldwide for its top-rankin ...
The Multilingual goal
There are thousands of languages arround the world and being multi–lingual is a goal for many pe ...
Teaching Tolerance
In conflicts across the world education has been crucial in helping to build lasting peace. In t ...
New horizons
Moving to another country is a challenge for refugees who need to adapt to a new culture. In Rin ...
New horizons
Moving to another country is a challenge for refugees who need to adapt to a new culture. For th ...
New horizons
Moving to another country is a challenge for refugees who need to adapt to a new culture. In Ri ...
Uplfing music
Music is a universal language. Singing, playing, listening, appreciating – all of it enriches yo ...
Uplifting music
Music is a universal language. Singing, playing, listening, appreciating – all of it enriches yo ...
Uplifting music
Music is a universal language. Singing, playing, listening, appreciating – all of it enriches yo ...
News
2009 WISE Awards Winner the Self-Sufficient School Welcomes Haitian Students
In September 2011, the WISE Haiti Task Force organized, with the support of the ...
2011 WISE Awards : 6 High-Impact Projects Now Selected
WISE is pleased to announce the six winning projects for the third edition of the WISE Awards.&n ...
Winners of WISE Awards 2010 Announced!
Winners of WISE Awards 2010 announced!Six laureates honoured by the World Innovation Summit for ...
Debates
WISE Awards 2011 Winners: What Works on the Ground?
In this thought-provoking WISE 2011 Summit panel discussion, the six WISE Awards 2011 Winners no ...
Learning Anytime, Anywhere: Lifelong learning is about people getting control of the learning that is happening in their communities
Lifelong learning is the subject of this WISE 2011 Summit debate. The panelists begin by looking ...
Nurturing Creativity: "Creativity as a desirable extra in education does not work"
Creativity has moved up the political agenda in the developed world as its importance for econom ...
Preventing Drop-Out, Bringing Learners Back in: Experiences in Canada, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cuba
Drop-out is a process that has widely different causes in different countries, can happen at ver ...
Motivating and Engaging Students: How can we bring the curriculum into the 21st century?
What motivates learners? Innovative educators from China, Norway and the UK and a student ...
Creating a Change Culture: "To lead change, you have to lead by example...and to explain why"
Creating a change culture – an entrepreneurial culture, open to creative and innovative th ...
Creative Arts in Education
For a long time, the creative arts were losing ground in schools and universities to skills cons ...
Social Media: Trends in Collaborative Learning
The growth of social media - from Facebook to Twitter, from Flickr to Youtube - has provided a h ...
Shared Values
Humanity is made up of richly different national and cultural identities and we are more than ev ...
Multistakeholder Partnerships in Education
While the private sector has long participated to an extent in public education, “Multistakehold ...
Designing Adaptable Curricula
Session DescriptionMany innovative curriculum models and approaches can be found across all regi ...
Skills for the 21st Century
Much good work has been done to identify “21st-century skills” - such as learning-to-learn, crit ...
Funding Education: New Models for our Times
With increasing numbers of students at every level of education, the challenges of funding and t ...
Improving Education Systems
The “Future of Education” must be built on existing foundations and therefore involves improving ...
Breakout Session: Leadership Models
Session descriptionLeadership plays a crucial role in determining the success or failure of inst ...
Plenary Session: Opening
The underlying premise of WISE is that education is paramount in enabling mankind to navigate th ...
Voices
Reza: "In Afghanistan, the main destruction has been of the soul, culture and human relations"
Photojournalist Reza, founder of Ainaworld that is committed to children’s education and trainin ...
Dr. Naif Al Mutawa: "The core of THE 99 is based on the values that Islam shares with the rest of humanity."
Kuwaiti Clinical Psychologist Naif Al-Mutawa is creator of THE 99, a group of comic superheroes ...
Biography
Ms. Sara BUHMAID
Sara Buhmaid is a final year medical student graduating this May hoping to specialize in o ...
Dr. Hamid SHIRVANI
Dr. Hamid Shirvani is President of the California State University, Stanislaus and an inte ...
Professor José Mariano GAGO
Former Minister of Portugal, in charge of Science and Technology, Information Society and ...
Professor Christian DEPOVER
Christian Depover is professor of educational sciences at the University of Mons and at th ...
Ms. Al Jawhara Hassan Al-Thani
Al Jawhara Al-Thani is currently a Junior at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in Qatar (SF ...
Mr. Richard NOBLE
Richard Noble OBE specializes in high-risk high-technology innovative projects and Bloodho ...
Prof. Russell BISHOP
Russell Bishop, Ph.D., is Foundation Professor for Maori Education in the School of Educat ...
Dr. D.D. GUTTENPLAN
D.D. Guttenplan, a journalist, educator and author based in London, is the premier writer ...
Dr Michèle PIERRE-LOUIS
Since her return to Haiti in 1976 after her studying abroad and obtaining an M.A. in Econ ...
Dr. Marta ARANGO NIMNICHT
For 33 years, Marta Arango Nimnicht and the International Center for Education and Develop ...
Dr. FACER Keri
Dr. Keri Facer is a Professor at the Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester M ...
Dr. Rosa-María TORRES DEL CASTILLO
Rosa María Torres del Castillo (Ecuador) is an educationalist and linguist with long experience ...
Mr. Iqbal NOOR ALI
Iqbal Noor Ali joined the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) in 1979, and was appointed S ...
Mr. Stephen HARRIS
Stephen Harris has been in school-based education for 34 years, with teaching experience a ...
Senator Cristovam BUARQUE
Cristovam Buarque is a Mechanical Engineer. He graduated from the Federal University of Pe ...
Mr. Özgür BOLAT
Özgür Bolat received his B.A. from Bogazici University School of Education, where he gradu ...
Mr. Niklaus Eggenberger-Argote
Dr. Niklaus Eggenberger-Argote is Executive Director of the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD). ...
Mr. Paul COLLARD
Paul Collard is the Chief Executive of CCE, the organization responsible for delivering the Brit ...
Dr José David WEINSTEIN CAYUELA
Dr. Weinstein holds a Sociology degree from the University of Chile and a PhD in Sociology from ...
Dr Tarek SHAWKI
Tarek Galal Shawki (born June 12, 1957 in Cairo, Egypt) is the Director of UNESCO's Regional Bur ...
Dr Bálint MAGYAR
Dr. Magyar obtained his MA in History and Sociology at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. H ...
Prof. György GERGELY
György Gergely is an internationally acclaimed scientific authority in the cognitive and develop ...
Prof. Dr. Alexander FEDOROV
Professor Alexander Fedorov completed his Ph.D. thesis at the Russian Academy of Education (Mosc ...
Prof. Simonetta CARBONARO
Simonetta Carbonaro is an expert in consumer psychology, strategic marketing and design manageme ...
Mrs. Irina BOKOVA
Born in Sofia in 1952, Irina Bokova obtained an MBA from the Moscow State Institute of Internati ...
His Excellency Dr Mohamed El-Aziz BEN ACHOUR
Prof. Dr. Mohamed-El Aziz Ben Achour was born on 5 January 1951 in La Marsa, the Northern suburb ...
Ms Nima ABU-WARDEH
Nima is a bilingual English Arabic broadcast journalist specialising in Arab issues. She present ...
Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa BINT HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL-THANI
Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani has played a pioneering role i ...
Minister Joseph Paré
Professor Joseph Paré has been Minister of Secondary Education, Higher Education and Scientific ...
Dr Michael L. Lomax
Dr. Lomax is the President and CEO of UNCF – the United Negro College Fund – the nation’s larges ...
Dr Claudie Haigneré
In March 2009, the Minister for Culture and Communication and the Minister for Research and High ...
Hon Dreifuss Ruth
Ruth Dreifuss studied in Geneva where she received a degree in economics with special focus on e ...
Dr Dassin Joan
Dr. Joan Dassin is the Executive Director of the International Fellowships Fund, Inc. (IFP), est ...
Mrs. Hélé Beji
Hélé Béji was born in the city of Tunis (Tunisia) in 1948. She took the French Literature Agréga ...
Dr Khan Abdul Waheed
Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan is President of Talal Abu Ghazaleh University of Business, Bahrain, and Se ...
Best Practices
SMARTlab Digital Media Laboratory (UK): State-of-the-Art Technologies for the Disabled
Prof. Lizbeth Goodman is Founder and Director of SMARTlab Research Institute, at University Coll ...
Escuela Nueva
Initiated in 1975 in rural Colombia, Escuela Nueva – “New School” in Spanish – is a learning mod ...
Creative Partnerships
The Creative Partnerships (CP) programme operates in around 2,500 schools throughout England eac ...
Escuelas del Bicentenario
Escuelas del Bicentenario seeks to improve the quality of education in disadvantaged public scho ...
Father Tom Moran Education Center
Since 1992 Ak’ Tenamit has been working to educate Mayan indigenous youth to help them recapture ...
Creating a Culture of Innovation
In 2003 the Saltash Community School was suffering from low levels of learner ambition and lacke ...
Press release
WISE Awards 2011: Six Winning Projects Announced Recognizing On-The-Ground Innovations in Education
Doha, Qatar, September 27, 2011: A Jury appointed by The World Innovation Summit for Education ( ...
Winners of WISE Awards 2010 announced
Six laureates honoured by the World Innovation Summit for Education for their outstanding initia ...
Her Highness Sheikha Mozah officially launches the first World Innovation Summit for Education – WISE
Guest of Honour, Irina Bokova, newly elected UNESCO Director-General addresses 1,000 opinion lea ...
1,000 Global Leaders To Attend The First Ever World Innovation Summit For Education
1,000 Global Leaders To Attend The First EverWorld Innovation Summit for EducationWISE 200 ...
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WISE Awards
The WISE Awards 2011
The six winning projects were selected for their innovative approaches and positive impact upon ...