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Ms. Naa Ayeleysa Quaynor-Mettle
Naa Ayeleysa Quaynor-Mettle is a rising senior pursuing a four-year Bachelor of Science degree i ...
Ms. Martha Kimweri
Martha Kimweri holds a law degree from Tumaini University’s Iringa campus in Tanzania. While she ...
Mr. Sulaiman Musa
Sulaiman Musa was born and raised in Sierra Leone and is currently reading Political Scien ...
Mr. Niwa Rahmad Dwitama
Niwa Rahmad Dwitama is a third-year student of International Relations at Universitas Indo ...
Ms. Ivica Alpeza
Ivica Alpeza is a Board member at the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions, ...
Mrs. Lorena Sanchez
Lorena Sanchez is a Communications Project Manager in the Public Affairs and Communic ...
Mr. Martín Federico DE ANGELIS
Martin F. De Angelis is a young Political Scientist from Buenos Aires Argentina, who (whil ...
Mrs. Sonia DUBOURG-LAVROFF
Since May 2009, Sonia Dubourg-Lavroff, Doctor in public law and a University of Bordeaux p ...
H.E. Luc CHÂTEL
Luc Chatel was born in Bethesda (USA) in 1964. His father was an admiral and his mother a ...
Dr. Tarik YOUSEF
Tarik M. Yousef was appointed in July 2011 as Chief Executive Officer of Silatech after se ...
Ms. Natacha COSTA
Natacha Costa is the Executive Director of Aprendiz City School Association (Associação Ci ...
Ms. Bruktawit TIGABU
Bruktawit Tigabu began her professional career as a primary school teacher in Ethiopia's c ...
Mr. Ponce Ernest SAMANIEGO
Ponce Ernest Samaniego is Co-Founder and CEO of Outliers, a social enterprise that serves ...
Mr. Essa AL MANNAI
Following a successful career as Head of Safety and Loss Prevention at the Qatar General W ...
Dr. Alexander KARPOV
Alexander Olegovich Karpov was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, on February ...
Dr. Marta ARANGO NIMNICHT
For 33 years, Marta Arango Nimnicht and the International Center for Education and Develop ...
Ms. Reeta ROY
Reeta Roy is President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation, an independent, private found ...
Mr. Uwen Robert OTU
Otu, Uwem Robert hails from Ebo ItuMbonuso in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State ...
Mrs. Farida LAMBAY
Farida Lambay completed her Master’s in Social Work from College of Social Work, Nirmala N ...
Mr. Salah-Eddine KANDRI
Salah-Eddine Kandri is currently the Manager for Consumer Services at the International Fi ...
Mr. Aref F. HUSSEINI
Aref F. Husseini is an electrical engineer and physicist and has worked in many industrial ...
Ms. Carolyn ACKER
Carolyn Acker’s career began as a Community Health Nurse. She later obtained a Bache ...
Dr. Muhammad FAOUR
Muhammad Faour is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his researc ...
Mr. Mhammed ABBAD ANDALOUSSI
Mr Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi, a former Moroccan banker, has been working for a Attijariwafa ...
Mr. Niklaus Eggenberger-Argote
Dr. Niklaus Eggenberger-Argote is Executive Director of the Swiss Academy for Development (SAD). ...
Mr Ian WHITMAN
Tuesday 7 December - 16.30-18.00Ian Whitman is Head of the Programme for Co-operation with Non ...
Dr José David WEINSTEIN CAYUELA
Dr. Weinstein holds a Sociology degree from the University of Chile and a PhD in Sociology from ...
Prof. Ellen WARTELLA
Ellen Wartella is Al-Thani Professor of Communication , Professor of Psychology and Director of ...
Mr. Salvatore NIGRO
Salvatore Nigro manages the relations of the Education For Employment Foundations in Europe. He ...
Dr Dennis LITTKY
Dennis Littky is co-founder and co-director of The Big Picture Company, The Met School and Colle ...
Prof. Dr. Fasli JALAL, Ph.D.
Professor Fasli Jalal, former Vice Minister of National the Republic of Indonesia. He has been s ...
Prof. Tim UNWIN
Tim Unwin (born 1955) is Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK, UNESCO Chai ...
Rt. Hon. Charles CLARKE
Charles Clarke was born in London in 1950 and educated at Highgate School, London. He read mathe ...
Dr Jumana Odeh
A pediatrician, public health expert and director of the Palestinian Happy Child Centre “PHCC”, ...
Ms Nima ABU-WARDEH
Nima is a bilingual English Arabic broadcast journalist specialising in Arab issues. She present ...
Mr Gerhard Schroder
Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has been a major force on the world’s political stage for nearly a d ...
Dr Mimi Baer
Mimi S. Baer is a senior educational consultant specializing in services to a wide range of orga ...
Ms Vivien STEWART
Vivien Stewart is Senior Advisor for Education at Asia Society. Over the past eight years, she h ...
Mrs. Heleen Terwijn
Heleen Terwijn - a psychologist and psychotherapist specialising in emotion and motivation, and ...
Mrs. Michele Cahill
Michele Cahill is Vice-President for National Programs and Director of Urban Education at Carneg ...
Mr. Neeraj Agarwal
A Mechanical Engineer trained at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, Neeraj Agarwal w ...
Mr. Martin BURT
Martin Burt is Founder and CEO of Fundación Paraguaya, a 26-year old NGO devoted to design ...
Mr Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, a leading social entrepreneur, is Executive Director of The Smallholders Fou ...
Voices
Borhène Chakroun: “Transform vocational training to attract learners”
The future of Technical and Vocation Education and Training will be the main focus of the ...
A Teacher’s Life in the 21st Century
I remember when I started studying to become a teacher I thought; “I want to make a difference. ...
Mr Kiyo Akasaka - United Nations
Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information
Lord David Puttnam: "There are no silver bullets"
Lord David Puttnam, Chairman of the UK-based FutureLab discusses ways to tackle education challe ...
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Learners’ Voice at the World Literacy Summit
Learners’ Voice is more active than ever on the international conference scene. Three Learners’ ...
Learners’ Voice at the India Youth Forum
From March 29 to April 1, 2012, in New Delhi, India, three students from the WISE Learners’ ...
WISE Learners’ Voice
A New Year-Round ProgramThe WISE Learners’ Voice Program is based on the idea that when learners ...
Speakers 2011
WISE 2011 Speakers and Chairs WISE Speakers and Chairs came from more than 40 differe ...
2009 Finalists
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Learning World
Education and the Arab Spring
Interview Muhammad Faour (Lebanon) Senior Associate at Carnegie Middle East Center, Beirut - by ...
Education and the Arab Spring
New Textbooks (Libya) – In January of this year, Libya's 1.2 million school children return ...
Education Moves
Camel Bus (India) - It may not be the fastest or most elegant means of transport, but in remote, ...
Education Moves
Learning in the subway (Brazil) - Taking the subway usually isn't intellectually demanding, ...
Defying Disability
Shafallah Center (Qatar) – Making the link between school and the working world is a key step. T ...
No gender please, we’re pupils
There is a pre-school in Sweden where there are no boys or girls – only “friends.” Educators at ...
No gender please, we’re pupils
There is a pre-school in Sweden where there are no boys or girls – only “friends.” Educators at ...
No gender please, we’re pupils
Lise Eliot is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin U ...
No gender please, we’re pupils
Lise Eliot is Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin U ...
No gender please, we’re pupils
Public single sex schools : they are a minority in the world but there are a few in Australia, e ...
No gender please, we’re pupils
Public single sex schools : they are a minority in the world but there are a few in Australia, e ...
20 years after the USSR
The report is about history lessons in Ukrainian high schools, and how it has changed 20 years a ...
Learning from another generation
In Tanzania, the Maasai have a profound knowledge of their land that is passed orally from gener ...
Learning from another generation
Retired teachers can still play an important role in the education process. In one of the rural ...
Chemistry in the classroom
Our first destination is the Finnish capital, Helsinki, where we focus on an initiative aiming t ...
Early Education
Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek is the Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Professor in the Department of Psychology ...
Early Education
All children, given the right training and opportunity, will grow up to be geniuses. In Baby Jum ...
Early Education
Learning is a lifelong process, and for a child the quality of education provided at an early ag ...
Learning with animals
An Irish farm just outside Limerick might not be the first place you'd think of visiting to ...
Learning with animals
The Singapore Zoo, the biggest in the world, has an educational program that shows children how ...
Learning with animals
The valley of Kriens, near Luzern, on the Swiss Alps. Every morning at 7.20 a.m. Alexandra Wolf ...
Class size matters
It’s been argued – for years – that a small number of students in a classroom enables higher qua ...
Class size matters
In the Sixties, Viola bet all its hopes of future on a new ski-resort in Saint Grée, near-by. Bu ...
How clean is clean?
In the hygiene obsessed USA, where people tend to overuse antibacterial hand soaps, antibiotics ...
How clean is clean?
Millions of girls living in developing countries like Uganda skip up to 20% of the school year s ...
How clean is clean?
Millions of rural Cambodians are living without a toilet. They have to relieve themselves in fie ...
Teaching Maths
Shanghai is the most modern and cosmopolitan city in China, but hidden inside its classrooms, th ...
Teaching Maths
Japanese have managed to keep alive thousand years old traditions and at the same time surprise ...
Teaching Maths
In Santa Monica, California, a middle school teacher and his students have come up with an innov ...
Finding Europe's voice
The EU has long been encouraging an exchange of ideas across its borders, hoping to engage young ...
Finding Europe's voice
The EU has long been encouraging an exchange of ideas across its borders, hoping to engage young ...
Finding Europe's voice
The EU has long been encouraging an exchange of ideas across its borders, hoping to engage young ...
Debates
Reforming Education - Mission Impossible: "Risk aversion can be overcome when we decide to reward genuine efforts, alternative concepts"
In this WISE 2011 Summit debate, high-level panelists from Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan dis ...
Education and Change in the Arab World: Has the Arab Spring Created an Opportunity for Reform in the Region?
Experts on education, labor and employment in the Arab region gather to talk about the the range ...
Shared Values
Humanity is made up of richly different national and cultural identities and we are more than ev ...
Plenary Session: Opening
The underlying premise of WISE is that education is paramount in enabling mankind to navigate th ...
Best Practices
Step into the Future Program (Russia): Inspiring Talented Science Students
Dr. Alexander Karpov is President of the Russian Youth Engineering Society and Chairman of the C ...
Stars of Science (Qatar): Inspiring Young Inventors through a High-Profile TV Contest
Dr. Fouad Mrad - Executive Director of the UN-ESCWA Regional Technology Center in Jordan - is al ...
Bridges to the Future Initiative
The Bridges to the Future Initiative (BFI) program is designed to bridge the digital divide betw ...
BBC Janala
BBC Janala uses mobile, web, television and print media to enable millions of people in Banglade ...
Student Refugee Program
Of the 15.2 million refugees in the world today, over 5 million live in refugee camps and segreg ...
Ensuring Every Child Learns
Naandi provides focussed academic support, or “tuition”, to children in Grades 2 to 5 in governm ...
Father Tom Moran Education Center
Since 1992 Ak’ Tenamit has been working to educate Mayan indigenous youth to help them recapture ...
NIIT Yuva Star Career Development Centers
The NIIT Yuva Star project is designed to empower and mainstream India’s marginalised youth (liv ...
The Self-Sufficient School: Learning while Earning
The Self-Sufficient School / Web DocumentaryA “good” education is considered one of the best rou ...
News
Looking Ahead: New Projects for WISE in 2012
The closing plenary session of the 2011 Summit looked forward to the year ahead. The sessio ...
Press release
WISE Global Summit puts multi-sectorial collaboration at the forefront of education innovation
WISE 2011 offered increased evidence that education reform will progress faster, when stakeholde ...
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Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser - Chairperson, Qatar Foundation
The Arab world needs a clear strategy in order to participate on the international stage. WISE i ...
Lord David Puttnam - FUTURELAB : Teacher Training and the Digital Age
Improving education should be the key priority in every nation as educators fight to win back th ...
WISE debate at WSMCY - Questioning Assessment
Narrow assessment goals kill creativity, so how should we assess what children understand? One o ...
WISE debate at WSMCY - Should Teaching Change?
Teaching should be about co-constructing knowledge, with teachers as guides rather than experts. ...
WISE debate at WSMCY - New Learning Environments
Learning environments will change because the new media allow learning anywhere, at any time. On ...
WISE debate at WSMCY - Fostering Creative Skills
The new media, including games, can help develop children’s learning, cognitive and creative ski ...
WISE debate at WSMCY - Collaborating to innovate
Re-inventing the education system will involve sharing and scaling up innovative practices. One ...