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Category: Thematic Forum

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Diaspora and Internationalisation in Higher Education: a BAICE Thematic Forum
24/01/2020 | By BAICE
The increased movement of people coupled with the rise of communications technology has made it possible for ever larger groups of mobile people to maintain contact with their homelands over vast distances. The term ‘diaspora’ is increasingly employed to describe these relations and it is used widely by academics, policy-makers, and national and supra-national institutions. The proliferation of diasporas linked with increasing academic and student mobility/migration has contributed to shaping the contemporary diasporic conditions in many...

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Bridging the Gap: Ms. Malini Ghose
13/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-forum, again! Today’s discussions are facilitated by Ms. Malini Ghose, Founder member of Nirantar, India. Malini Ghose has worked in the fields of literacy, education and women’s rights for over 20 years, in various capacities – as a grassroots practitioner, trainer, curriculum developer, researcher and advocate. She has provided technical assistance to government and NGO interventions and engaged with policy development on gender and education related issues, nationally and internationally. Malini is a founder-member of Nirantar,…

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Bridging the Gap: Dr. M. Ehsanur Rahman
12/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-forum, again! Today’s discussions are facilitated by Dr. M. Ehsanur Rahman, Executive Director, Dhaka Ahsania Mission. Ehsanur is currently the Executive Director of Dhaka Ahsania Mission and chairperson of the Coalition for Urban Poor, the network of CSOs working with urban poor in Bangladesh. He has been active in the education sector for about three decades. At the national and international level, he contributed significantly in capacity development of non-formal primary education, adult education, early child education…

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Bridging the Gap: Ms. Mari Yasunaga
11/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-forum, again! Today’s discussions are facilitated by Ms. Mari Yasunaga, Programme Specialist, Section for Youth, Literacy and Skills Development, UNESCO, Paris. Mari is a Programme Specialist, currently working in the Section for Youth, Literacy and Skills Development in the Division for Policies and Lifelong Learning Systems of the UNESCO Education Sector. Within UNESCO, she has almost 20 years of experience in the field of education and international development, especially basic education, literacy and non-formal education. Discussion…

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Bridging the Gap: Dr. Jan Eldred
10/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-forum, again! Today’s discussions are facilitated by Dr. Jan Eldred, Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE). Jan has scores of years of interest in adult literacy in both the UK and in international development. She has been a literacy tutor organiser, FE officer and Head of Faculty for Community Education as well as Assistant Director of NIACE.  She is currently looking at the impact of literacy and numeracy learning across the…

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Bridging the Gap: Prof. Anna Robinson-Pant
09/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-forum, again! Today’s discussions are facilitated by Prof. Anna Robinson-Pant, Professor of Education, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Anna is a Professor of Education at and is shortly to be appointed UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation at the University of East Anglia. She has worked as teacher trainer, planner and ethnographic researcher in the field of literacy, gender and development for many years (particularly in Nepal). She received the UNESCO…

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Bridging the Gap: Dr. Sushan Acharya
08/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-forum, again! Today’s discussions are facilitated by Dr. Sushan Acharya, Associate Professor, Central Department of Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. ​Sushan is an Associate Professor at the Central Department of Education Tribhuvan University (TU), Kirtipur. Sushan has undertaken a number of researches, evaluation, reviews and consultancy projects in the field of education (both formal and non-formal) particularly with focus on gender and social inclusion. For example she was involved in final evaluation of EFA in 2014 and SSRP mid-term evaluation…

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Bridging the Gap: Ms. Cecilia (Thea) V. Soriano
07/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-forum, again! Today’s discussions are facilitated by Ms. Cecilia (Thea) V. Soriano, Programmes and Operations Coordinator, Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education. Cecilia (Thea) works as Programmes and Operations Coordinator of ASPBAE and she is based in Manila. She assists education coalitions in India, Nepal and Indonesia in their education research, policy advocacy and campaigns. Thea has been active in education reforms since 2000 after the Dakar Declaration of Education for All and…

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Bridging the Gap: Dr. Rafat Nabi
06/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-forum, again! Today’s discussions are facilitated by Dr. Rafat Nabi, Director of Education, Aga Khan Foundation, Afghanistan. Rafat works with the Aga Khan Foundation in Afghanistan as Director of Education. She is an educational development professional with over 30 years of extensive field and research based experience. The projects she has been involved in include teacher training, working nationally and internationally with governments, with civil society groups, with NGOs and donors particularly USAID, conducting research, monitoring…

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Bridging the Gap: Research, Policy and Practice in Women’s Literacy
05/11/2015 | By eForum Moderator

Welcome to the BAICE e-Forum on research, policy and practice in women’s literacy! The e-Forum is a virtual space where interested organisations and individuals can interact, network and exchange ideas around adult literacy issues in the global south/developing countries. This is one of the Bridging the Gap activities sponsored by the British Association for International and Comparative Education and organised by the UK Literacy Working Group and the Literacy and Development Group of the University of East Anglia. The purpose…

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