Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University
On August 26, 2022, Himeji Shikisai High School students visited the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS) at Kobe University as part of their English practice class. The group was composed of thirty-three students and five teachers. From GSICS, ten students joined the event. Three moments were scheduled: a lecture by Ogawa sensei, group […]
On 24th August 2022, Dr. Albert Byamugisha presented on the topic of “World Bank Support to Uganda” to the students in Professor Ogawa’s class “World Bank & SDGs”. At first, he introduced the main roles of the World Bank which is designed to finance projects that enhances the economic development of its 189 member states […]
From March 28 to July 22, 2022, I conducted my internship at the UNICEF Tokyo Office. UNICEF Tokyo Office is working for a financial cooperation on ODA as a part of New York headquarters public partnership. During my internship, I was assigned to the Public Partnership Divisionand engaged explicitly in two activities. First, I reviewed and […]
On July 1st, 2022, the University of Dhaka’s Department of Japanese Studies, where Ogawa seminar’s alumni Dr. Md Jahangir Alam works, received an award from the Japanese Foreign Minister for outstanding contributions to the promotion of friendly relationships, including an academic exchange between Japan and Bangladesh, the expansion of Japanese studies in Bangladesh, and the […]
The 58th Japan Comparative Education Society Annual Conference occurred online between June 24th and 26th, 2022. In the conference, there were 11 roundtable sessions, 107 research presentations, an open symposium and 2 selected research sessions. Professor Ogawa gave a speech in a roundtable session on the first day of the conference. Professor Ogawa and 7 […]
The 23rd Japan Society for International Development (JASID) Spring Conference was held virtually on Saturday, June 18th, 2022. There were 17 sessions, which were conducted virtually in real-time: a plenary session, a special session organized by the Executive Committee, and other sessions on the topics such as region, education, children, development, NGO, SDGs, disaster, […]
From March 4th to April 30th, 2022, I conducted an online internship under Dr. Peggy Kelly who is a Statistics and Monitoring Specialist at UNICEF New York Headquarters. During this internship, I carried out data analysis and literature review on education and gender with the aim to support an UNICEF report. Using statistical data on […]
I conducted an online internship from February 21 to March 18, 2022, under the supervision of Dr. Albert Byamugisha (Ogawa Seminar alumnus), a Senior Technical Adviser in the Office of Prime Minister Uganda. Dr. Albert is currently in charge of promoting the SDGs in Uganda at the Office, and my internship was also focused on […]
As one of the “World Bank and the Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) series, on January 10th 2022, Dr. Shitro Nakata, senior education economist in WB, delivered a lecture about “Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”. The objectives of the lecture were to explore the latest challenges and key concepts in […]
On December 28th 2021, as one of the “World Bank and the Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) series, Dr. Nicholas Burnett, the former World Bank Sector manager, currently board chair of UNESCO IIEP delivered a lecture on the theme of “Can the Global Education Architecture Be Made to Work?”. The education global architecture consists of UN […]
