Widening Access to Education

EdTech alone cannot close the learning gap | La Tecnología Educativa por sí sola no puede cerrar la

EdTech alone cannot close the learning gap | La Tecnología Educativa por sí sola no puede cerrar la brecha de aprendizaje

The British Foreign Office has commissioned, through the UK’s Department for International Development, a study on Education with Technology during the Covid-19 crisis in low-income countries. The preparation of the report was entrusted to a team of researchers from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge led by Katy Jordan.

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Thursday, 19 November, 2020
Virtual Annual Conference on Outreach and Access in Adult Learning, 19-20 November 2020

Virtual Annual Conference on Outreach and Access in Adult Learning, 19-20 November 2020

What lessons can be drawn from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic? We invite you to discuss new challenges and opportunities for outreach and access in adult learning during our virtual conference.

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Friday, 6 November, 2020
Project Launch | Gendered Journeys

Project Launch | Gendered Journeys: the trajectories of STEM students and graduates through higher education and into employment in India and Rwanda

This project will investigate how far, and in what ways, gender may have an influence in the progress of students through higher education, graduation and progression into skilled employment in the STEM sector in India and Rwanda. This is important because science has a critical role in supporting global sustainable development that will not be realised unless it makes better use of the potential skills of women and girls.

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Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
Invitation to the World Access to Higher Education Day (WAHED24) Global Online Conference Series

Invitation to the World Access to Higher Education Day (WAHED24) Global Online Conference Series - 17th November

WAHED24 is a unique collaboration between the WAHED and the Asia Europe Foundation, Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia (EPHEA) & National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE), the Lumina Foundation, the University of Nairobi and the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC).

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Monday, 26 October, 2020
World Access to HE Newsletter - 16th October 2020

World Access to HE Newsletter - 16th October 2020

World Access to Higher Education Day (WAHED) is a day of awareness raising that aims to bring global attention to inequality in access to higher education and to accelerate action.  Now in its third year, WAHED is organised by the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON).

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Monday, 19 October, 2020
Adult Learning Australia | Adult Learners Week - 1-8 Sept, 2020

Adult Learning Australia | Adult Learners Week - 1-8 Sept, 2020

STARTS NEXT WEEK! Festival Program of Events featured below.

Adult Learners Week is celebrated at the beginning of Spring with hundreds of events and activities promoting the benefits of learning. There are so many opportunities to learn available across Australia.

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Friday, 28 August, 2020
FACE e-Bulletin | July 2020

FACE e-Bulletin | July 2020

This is the monthly e-Bulletin from FACE (the Forum for Access and Continuing Education), offered to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and others with an interest in access, widening participation and lifelong learning.

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Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
Forum for Access and Continuing Education Webinar Series

FACE Webinar Series - REGISTER NOW

This free webinar, hosted by the Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE) and chaired by Professor John Storan, will focus on Access to HE for mature and part-time learners. Ann-Marie Karadia and John Butcher will consider and explore the impact and implications that the pandemic is having and will continue to have for mature and part-time learners and their access to higher education opportunities.

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Friday, 26 June, 2020

World Access to Higher Education Day

The impact of COVID-19 has meant that Higher Education providers have had to rapidly re-purpose their work to mainly virtual forms to reach learners and support schools and colleges. However, as we look forward to 2020-2021, what does this mean for widening access to higher education work going forward?

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Wednesday, 3 June, 2020

Higher Education after COVID-19

The shift from the direct public funding of higher education to fee-based funding supported by student loans was supposed to put university finances on a stable footing and remove them from politics. John Holmwood, professor of sociology at the University of Nottingham and a co-founder of the Campaign for the Public University, argues that fee-based systems of higher education are in crisis.

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Monday, 27 April, 2020

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