The 60th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) was held at Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver, Canada, from March 6 to 10, 2016. The conference was hosted by the Faculty of Education and its Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong, with the theme of “Six Decades of […]
JSPS Core-to-Core Program Seminar #7 on “Basic Education Finance/Administration and Public Policy in Developing Countries”
On February 8th, 2016, the 7th JSPS Core-to-Core Program Seminar titled “Basic Education Finance/Administration and Public Policy in Developing Countries” was held at Chiang Mai University in Thailand. The Seminar was organized by Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) with Chiang Mai University, and it was supported by JSPS Core-to-Core Program (Asia-Africa […]
Ogawa Seminar’s Welcome Party for New students
The welcome party of Ogawa Seminar took place in a BBQ restaurant near JR Rokkomichi Station November 2nd, 2016, and we celebrated two new research students who joined this fall semester. More than fifteen of Ogawa seminar’s members, including new students participated in the party. Professor. Keiichi Ogawa started the party by delivering a welcome […]
CAMPUS Asia Symposium at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand (Xiaoxiao JIA)
On November 19, 2015, I presented my paper in the CAMPUS Asia Symposium held at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The theme of the symposium was “Challenges and Prospects on Higher Education Cooperation in East Asia”. This symposium was jointly sponsored by Kobe University, Korea University, Fudan University and Chulalongkorn University, and with the supports […]
Internship at UNESCO Beijing Office (Xiaoxiao JIA)
I worked as an intern at UNESCO Beijing Office from July 27th until October 27th. During the period of my internship, I assisted the program specialist as well as my colleagues in a variety of works, from which I gained a lot of experiences and skills that might be beneficial to my future study and […]
Development Management Policy Seminar on “Exploring Challenges of Educational Response to Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan”
The above seminar was held on Wednesday, 14th October, 2015 in the Main Conference Room of the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) building. The guest speaker was Dr. Tejendra Pherali who is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education, London University College, University of London, United Kingdom (UK). The topic of his […]
Welcome Party for New Ogawa Seminar Students
On Tuesday 6th October 2015, Ogawa seminar held a party to welcome international new students into the seminar. The party was attended by distinguished personalities namely Prof. John Weidman from Pittsburgh University, USA and H.E. Mr. Sothea Lim from the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth (MESY), Cambodia. Earlier that same day, Prof. Weidman had […]
Development Management Policy Seminar on “Conceptualizing International Development Education: Sector-Wide Reform and Globalization of Teacher Education”
Dr. John C. Weidman who is a professor in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States of America (USA) was the guest speaker in the above captioned seminar. The seminar took place on Tuesday 6th October 2015, in the main conference room in Kobe University’s Graduate School of International […]
Development Management Seminar on “Education and Economic Development in Cambodia”
H.E. Dr. Chuon Naron Hang, Minister of Education in Cambodia visited Kobe University’s Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) on October 5th, 2015. Dr. Hang kindly delivered a lecture in the development Management Policy Seminar, held the main conference room in GSICS building. The theme of his lecture was “Education and Economic Development in […]
Internship at Ministry of Education in Timor-Leste (Takao OKAMOTO)
I had the opportunity to conduct my internship in the Ministry of Education (MoE) in Timor-Leste from August of 24th to September of 28th 2015. I was initially attached to the Department of Science and Technical Education.During the internship, I had three main activities related to theme of my academic research; “The relationship between Labor […]