Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University
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 […]
The Comparative International and Education Society (CIES) Conference is the largest international conference in the Comparative Education field. This year, it occurred in Minneapolis, United States between April 18th and 22nd, with part of the program being online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It had many sections with presenters from Japanese universities and international organizations, […]
The 29th Japan Society for Africa Educational Research (JSAER) Conference was held virtually at the Waseda University on Saturday April 9th and Sunday April 10th, 2022. At this forum, more than 20 researchers and practitioners presented their work. From the Ogawa seminar, one alumni, one doctoral student, and three master students participated and presented their […]
Professor Ogawa and Dr. Wang, an Ogawa seminar alumna, published a joint paper in the Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol 225, No. 4. The paper’s title is “Household Financing on Secondary Education in Cambodia: An Analysis of Household Over-indebtedness on Public Schooling and Supplementary Tutoring” While the microfinance market has expanded rapidly in […]
In March 2022, Mr.Taiga Yano published a paper titled:Teachers’ Motivation in Public Primary Schools in Lao PDR: A Case Study of Vientiane Capital in Education 3-13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education edited by the Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE). The paper is available at this link. Based on […]
The academic year of 2022 at Kobe University starts this April and many new students entered the community of Professor Ogawa’s Seminar. Let’s welcome them! New Doctoral Students (5 students): Danilo Dalmon Mai Hirose Natsuko Ogura Ryuto Minami Ayumu Yagi New Master’s Students (7 students): Yuka Furutani Masaru Miyauchi Wakana Hasegawa Rika Sugiura Runjing Guo […]
From February 4th to March 31st 2022, I conducted an internship at the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Headquarters. During the internship, I was assigned to the Impact Evaluation Task Force of the Evaluation Department, and engaged in two activities, 1) to provide summaries of academic literature using impact evaluation, and 2) to participate in […]
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 […]
On the 29th March 2022, Dr. Chea Phal, a research fellow at Cambodia Development Resource Institute, kindly delivered a lecture about ‘Online Learning during COVID-19 in Cambodia Secondary Schools: Practices, Challenges, and Ways Forward’ through Campus Asia Plus Program, organized by Professor Ogawa. The session started with a brief introduction about the biography of Dr. […]
