Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University
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 […]
As one of the “World Bank and the Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) series, on December 27th 2021, Dr. Eduardo Bustillo, the current World Bank sector manager, gave a lecture on the theme “Creating Education Systems that Deliver”. Dr. Eduardo discussed how education has evolved internationally, from the conferences of Addis Ababa in the 1960s, Jomtien […]
As one of the “World Bank and the Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) series, on December 27th 2021, Dr. Eduardo Bustillo, former sector manager of the World Bank, gave a lecture on “Investing in the early years and early reading and SDGs”. Dr. Eduardo pointed out that SDG 4, especially in Early Childhood Development (ECD), requires […]
As one of the “World Bank and the Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) series, on December 28th, 2021, Dr. Albert Byamugisha, senior technical advisor Uganda prime minister’s office gave a lecture on the theme “World Bank support in Africa:Case of Uganda. Dr Byamgisha introduced following five key supports from the World Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa; (1) […]
Professor Keiichi Ogawa organized the series of lectures on the topic of World Bank (WB) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The first lecture, by him, was on December 19th. In his lecture, he presented the organization of the World Bank Group, described how it works to help the achievement of the SDGs, and also […]
The new book called Handbook of Research on Acquiring 21st Century Literacy Skills Through Game-Based Learning, edited by professor Carol-Ann Lane from the University of Toronto, in Canada, includes one chapter authored by Professor Ogawa and Dr. Jahangir Alam, who graduated from the University of Kobe, and Sheikh Islam. The title is Discrete Primary Education […]
The 32nd Japan Society for International Development (JASID) Annual Conference was held virtually on Saturday. November. 20th and Sunday. November. 21st, 2021. There were 30 sessions in total including 7 sessions in English, which were conducted virtually in real time; a plenary session, a special session organized by the Executive Committee and other sessions on the […]
The Journal of Globalization and Development recently published a paper authored by Jude (Linghui Zhu), currently a doctoral student, and his colleagues at the World Bank titled “Does Premature Deindustrialization Matter? The Role of Manufacturing versus Services in Development”. The paper is available on the journal’s website in this link. This paper is motivated to […]
In the latest issue of the Journal of Social Education Research, Dr. Sanfo (graduated in 2020 from Kobe University) and Professor Ogawa published a paper titled: Explaining Gold-Mining and Non-Gold Mining Areas’ Inequalities in Learning Achievements in Burkina Faso’s Primary Education: A Decomposition Analysis. The paper is freely available on the journal’s website in this […]
The 18th International Education Department Forum (IEDF) was held at the University of Tsukuba on November 5th and 6th, 2021. This forum was an annual academic gathering for international and Japanese participants, including professors and graduate students from 12 invited universities. IEDF’s founding fathers, including Professor Keiichi Ogawa, had put together this academic platform to […]
