Career Seminar on International Organizations “UNESCO and World Bank”

Career Seminar on International Organizations “UNESCO and World Bank”

On June 16th, 2014,a Career Seminar on International Organizations was held in Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS). The seminar was jointly sponsored by the Program for Careers in International Organizations,Campus Asia Project Secretariat, and Students and Employment Committee in GSICS. Two international organizations, namely,The World Bank and UNESCO,were the focus of […]

Professor Ki-Seok Kim, Emeritus Professor at Seoul National University, Delivered his Lecture in Professor Ogawa’s Human Capital Development Class

Professor Ki-Seok Kim, Emeritus Professor at Seoul National University, Delivered his Lecture in Professor Ogawa’s Human Capital Development Class

On June 3rd, 2014, Dr. Ki-Seok “Korbill” Kim at Seoul National University delivered a special lecture about Korean education development in the Simulation Room on the 6th floor of the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS). Dr. Kim is an Emeritus Professor at Seoul National University and has been in Kobe since April 2014 […]

GSICS Professor Receives an Evaluation Award from the Government of Uganda

GSICS Professor Receives an Evaluation Award from the Government of Uganda

His Right Honorable Amama Mbabazi, Prime Minister of Uganda, presented an Evaluation Award to Professor Keiichi Ogawa of Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) for his contribution to policy advice and evaluation in the education sector as well as to human/research capacity development in Uganda. Professor Ogawa’s contributions to other developing countries […]

Prof. Keiichi Ogawa Lectured at Seoul National University, South Korea

Prof. Keiichi Ogawa Lectured at Seoul National University, South Korea

Prof. Keiichi Ogawa delivered a lecture at the international conference on “Poverty Reduction in Asia & Africa”, held on Friday 23rd May 2014. The conference was organized by Educators Without Borders (EWB), a Non-Government Organization (NGO) and Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea. It was divided into two sessions, corresponding to the two regions highlighted […]

Field Study in Toronto and Washington, D.C. (Ha Thu Truong)

Field Study in Toronto and Washington, D.C. (Ha Thu Truong)

Through the support of Prof. Keiichi Ogawa and the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, I have had an opportunity to conduct my international field study in two major cities in North America, Toronto and Washington DC in two weeks, from March 10 through April 22, 2014. During the first week, I have […]

JSPS Core-to-Core Program Seminar #1 on “Prospects on Education Policy in Developing Countries: From International Education Cooperation Perspectives”

JSPS Core-to-Core Program Seminar #1 on “Prospects on Education Policy in Developing Countries: From International Education Cooperation Perspectives”

On May 2nd, Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) held the first seminar on the JSPS Core-to-Core Program’s seminar. The theme of the seminar was “Prospects on Education Policy in Developing Countries: From International Education Cooperation Perspectives”, and more than fifty researchers including graduate students participated. In the beginning of the seminar, […]

Internship Seminar on FHI360 Was Held in GSICS

Internship Seminar on FHI360 Was Held in GSICS

On April 30, Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) organized an internship seminar on FHI360 (formally Academy for Education Development: AED), an international nonprofit human development organization in Washington, DC, USA. Under the memorandum of understanding (MOU) between FHI360 and Kobe GSICS, many students from Prof. Ogawa’s Seminar have conducted internship at […]

Advanced Overseas Research in Vietnam (Truong Thu Ha)

I have conducted my field study in two major cities in Vietnam, Hanoi and Hue from April 11 to 27, 2014. The purpose of this overseas research is twofold: to know more about the current issues of the labor market in Vietnam and to gain more knowledge regarding the statistical methodology utilized for my dissertation. […]

Advanced Overseas Research in Vietnam (Tomoko UMENO)

Advanced Overseas Research in Vietnam (Tomoko UMENO)

I conducted field study in Vietnam for three weeks from April 9 to 27, 2014 in order to develop my knowledge about working children and the reality of child work and schooling, which is my dissertation topic. I had two specific objectives for this field study.The firstwasto clarifythe reasonswhy children work and investigate their child-time […]