International Mother Language Day 2023

The 24th edition of International Mother Language Day will focus on the theme ‘multilingual education – a necessity to transform education’. Multilingual education based on mother-tongue facilitates access to and inclusion in learning for population groups that speak non-dominant languages, languages of minority groups and indigenous languages. The International Mother Language Day 2023 edition will

International Day Against Violence & Bullying at School.

International Day Against Violence & Bullying at School When I started teaching I joined The Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment (STOPP) which was set up in the U.K. to campaign for the abolition of corporal punishment in UK schools.It took decades to achieve a reasonable result. Yet there was still a worry that

World Teachers’ Day 2022

More than ever we have to celebrate and support those who are willing ,often in difficult circumstances, to engage with children and young people in preparing them for an unknown future. Take this example: Joel Dieudonne Kikalage, originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a teaching assistant in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda, who

: The International Day of Education 2022

International Day of Education 2022: this year’s theme is ‘Changing Course, Transforming Education‘. The word transformation is the key idea for this ‘celebration’ of education in all its forms. Making slight changes to the process of education for all will not be enough to prepare children and young people for lifelong learning, which will be