EBOLA : don’t panic – educate!

There is a dichotomy at present in the reaction to the EBOLA virus –are we doing enough in West Africa or are we developing a panic syndrome, so much so that inaction takes over… From the latest INEE newsletter Launch of the Ebola Communication Network Ebola Communication Network On October 8th, the Ebola Communication Network (ECN), was launched.

Conflict Sensitive Strategies in Education

Conflict sensitive education refers to the design and delivery of education programs and policies in a way that considers the conflict context and aims to minimize the negative impact (contribution to conflict) and maximize positive impact (contribution to peace). Update from INEE Incorporating Conflict Sensitive Strategies into the INEE-Education Cluster EiE Training Package INEE This

Quality and Inequality – Blog Action Day 2014

Yes it is Blog Action Day 2014. The theme –INEQUALITY   Lets start with a vid:   Why quality? I am thinking about the quality of education -how it is denied to so many children and how good quality education could improve the chances of many and thus reduce inequalities.   Gender inequality   Food

(not Columbus Day) Indigenous People’s Day ?

What a shame that Columbus Day is still ‘celebrated’   – after anhialating many of the indigenous peoples in both North and South America, further humiliation is heaped on those who are left, by celebrating a notorious historical figure. From : Cultural Survival : Things to Do to Commemorate Indigenous Peoples on Columbus Day