Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University
In 1994, UNESCO proclaimed October 5th to be the World Teachers’ Day, celebrating a great step made for teachers when a special intergovernmental conference convened by UNESCO in Paris adopted the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers, in cooperation with the ILO on October 5th, 1966. This year’s theme, “Valuing Teachers, Improving their Status”, […]
The 27th Annual Conference of the Japan Society for International Development (JASID) was held at Hiroshima University in November 26 and 27, 2016. The theme of this year’s conference was “Local and Global Community-building through International Cooperation.” The Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation (IDEC) of Hiroshima University, established to nurture experts to address […]
Thanks to the Kobe University Visiting Scholar Program at FHI360, Washington D.C. which has been implemented for almost 11 years, I got an opportunity to conduct my summer internship in the United States during six weeks between September and October 2016. This is a great experience for me in many ways from gaining knowledge of […]
Professor Keiichi Ogawa was invited to deliver a lecture in the JICA training conducted by Professor Takashi Hamano (Course Leader) at Ochanomizu University on October 17, 2016. This training focused on issues related to access and quality of early childhood education (EDC), and eleven government officers and principals from Western African countries, namely Benin, Bukina […]
The 17th International Conference on Education Research (ICER) and International Education Development Forum (IEDF) were held at Seoul National University (SNU) from October 12 to 14, 2016 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Professor Ogawa and ten students from Ogawa Seminar participated as presenters at the Conference. ICER, an international conference organized by Education Research Institute […]
On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, the 9th JSPS Core-to-Core Program Seminar was held in the Main Conference Room of Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) at Kobe University. The topic of the seminar was “Education Finance and Public Policy in Developing Countries. Many young researchers from in and out of GSICS participated in the […]
Professor Keiichi Ogawa was invited to present his research on “Financing for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) in Japan” on September 28, 2017. This Seminar was organized by the Korea Institute of Child Care and Education (KICCE) and was held in the Hotel President in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. The theme of the […]
From September of 12th to September of 26th 2016, I conducted my internship in the Ministry of Education (MoE) in Timor-Leste. This was my second visit to Timor-Leste. I was initially attached to the Department of Science and Technical Education in the Ministry of Education in Timor-Leste. During the internship, I had two main activities […]
On August 24th 2016, Ogawa zemi’s graduation party was held in an Italian café near the university, to honor three of its Master students namely, Mr. Seil Kim, Mr. Jaik Lee, and Mr. Jingyuan Ma. The official graduation ceremony in Kobe GSICS will be held in late September but since Mr. Kim and Mr. Lee, […]
This report details my participation in a field study held in Washington DC, USA from 6th to 13th August 2016. The field study was planned, organized and coordinated by Professor Keiichi Ogawa, with the objective of enabling the students who took part in it to learn and appreciate the concept of human resources development in […]
