Traineeship Program Experience at the UNESCO Regional Office in Jakarta (Noa Yokogawa)

Traineeship Program Experience at the UNESCO Regional Office in Jakarta (Noa Yokogawa)

From 17 November 2025 to 15 May 2026, I participated in a traineeship programme for a six months at the UNESCO Regional Office in Jakarta. The UNESCO traineeship programme is jointly organized by UNESCO and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (Japanese National Commission for UNESCO). The programme aims to […]

Traineeship Program Experience at the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe (Miyoko Watanabe)

Traineeship Program Experience at the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe (Miyoko Watanabe)

From October 27, 2025, to April 27, 2026, I conducted a traineeship at the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa (UNESCO ROSA) in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.  The UNESCO Traineeship Program is jointly implemented by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), specifically the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, and UNESCO. […]

Professor Keiichi Ogawa Received the Harold J. Noah Distinguished Alumni Award from Columbia University

Professor Keiichi Ogawa Received the Harold J. Noah Distinguished Alumni Award from Columbia University

Dr. Keiichi Ogawa, Professor at Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), received the Harold J. Noah Distinguished Alumni Award in Comparative and International Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Harold J. Noah (1925 – 2019) was a professor and dean at Teachers College from 1964 to 1987. As an alumnus of the College’s Comparative […]

Message from Dr. Yudai ISHII

Message from Dr. Yudai ISHII

I currently serve as a Project Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, where I work on the program titled “Global Network Program for Joint Education and Research to Nurture Highly Skilled Professionals Toward Value Co-Creation in International Cooperation” under the International Collaborative Program for Network-Based Graduate School in the […]

Research Internship on Brazil’s Upper Secondary Education Reform (Hinata Tanaka)

Research Internship on Brazil’s Upper Secondary Education Reform (Hinata Tanaka)

From December 12, 2025 to March 20, 2026, I completed a research internship under the guidance of Dr. Danilo Leite Dalmon. This internship focused on a quantitative analysis of Brazil’s Upper Secondary Education Reform, with particular attention to the expansion of full-time upper secondary education and its relationship with school-level Basic Education Development Index (IDEB) […]

Five Ogawa Seminar Students Completed a Remote World Bank Internship under the Guidance of Dr. Bernard Yungu Loleka

Five Ogawa Seminar Students Completed a Remote World Bank Internship under the Guidance of Dr. Bernard Yungu Loleka

From 15th February to 31st March 2026, five master’s students from the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies (GSICS), Kobe University, under the supervision of Professor Ogawa Keiichi, undertook a remote internship with the World Bank. The internship was conducted under the guidance of Dr. Bernard Yungu Loleka, Education Economist with the World Bank’s Western […]

Internship Experience at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia (Jiling Yao)

Internship Experience at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Cambodia (Jiling Yao)

From 5 March to 30 March 2026, I completed a field-based research internship in Cambodia under the guidance of Dr. Lim Sothea, Director General of the Department of Policy and Planning at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS). This internship formed an integral part of my doctoral research, which examines the relationship between […]

Ogawa seminar students presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

Ogawa seminar students presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

The 70th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) was held in San Francisco, United States, from March 28 (Saturday) to April 1 (Wednesday), 2026. This conference marked the 70th anniversary of the Society and brought together researchers and practitioners from around the world. Professor Kazuo Kuroda of Waseda University served as CIES President-Elect (2025–2026). CIES […]

Professor Ogawa’s co-edited a book “Social and Emotional Learning: Education for the Future through SEL and Non-Cognitive Skills”

Professor Ogawa’s co-edited a book “Social and Emotional Learning: Education for the Future through SEL and Non-Cognitive Skills”

Professor Ogawa’s co-edited book, “Social and Emotional Learning: Education for the Future through SEL and Non-Cognitive Skills (社会性と情動の学習―SELと非認知スキルで未来を拓く教育)”, has recently been published by Toshindo. This book systematically organizes multifaceted concepts such as “social and emotional competencies,” “non-cognitive skills,” and “zest for living (Ikiru chikara),” drawing on the latest insights from institutions including research from Harvard […]