Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships are now open!
12 fully funded Masters scholarships are available and applications close on 18 January 2021.
Save Our Future Campaign
At the Global Education Meeting, the Save Our Future campaign was launched, putting forward evidence based recommendations for governments to reimagine education systems post COVID-19.
International Day against Violence and Bullying at school
The first International Day against Violence and Bullying is taking place on 5 November 2020 and the theme is ‘Together against bullying in School’.
Responses to the Pandemic
To support the education community respond to COVID-19 challenges, the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management (CCEAM) is publishing 60 papers through 4 issues.
Learning Never Stops
With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting roughly 1 billion students worldwide, efforts need to be made to ensure that there are equal opportunities for children to learn despite the educational disruption.
Call for Submissions: Innovating Education in Africa Expo 2020
COVID-19 has further exacerbated challenges in Africa’s education system highlighting the need to promote innovation in the entire education and skills development ecosystems. Disadvantaged groups need to be included in the digital revolution The African Union Commission (AUC) and Partners across Africa will hold the third edition of Innovating Education in Africa Expo as a virtual series of events and activities from October 2020 – June 2021.
Safe Back to School: A practitioner’s guide
The Safe Back to School guide aims to be a user-friendly, practitioner-focused tool that outlines the key steps needed for a coordinated, inclusive, all-hazards approach to school reopening and links to further guidance where appropriate. Coordination teams (such as Child Protection Area of Responsibility, Education Cluster, EiE Working Group Coordinators, Refugee Education Groups or Local Education Groups) are encouraged to share this document and reference this guidance as coordinated school reopening strategies are developed and operationalised.
Wellbeing Matters
A set of resources has been created to help support physical and mental wellbeing among the education community. It includes top tips for school leaders to develop resilience and mental wellbeing for staff.
School systems priorities in the days of COVID-19
Four major priorities and putting equity front and center, should be the focus of school systems. The shift to remote learning across the world has been uneven. Some systems were able to train teachers, roll out remote learning, and put in place student support services in less than a week. Others are still struggling, constrained by lack of access to technology or expertise. The disparity is obviously true between countries; it is also true within them. Students can live relatively near each other yet face very different prospects.
Disabled people and COVID-19
The Commonwealth Disabled People’s Forum (CDPF) provided the following principles to ensure disabled people are not disadvantaged during the Covid-19 pandemic response. Preamble Human Rights are not dispensable because there is a medical emergency.