Tackling the global learning crisis

Between 2020-2024, three HEI-ICI projects will provide their expertise and effort to solve learning crisis in three country contexts.
8.9.2023 Toimittaja

Busy times in the TEPATE-project – many activities ongoing

8.9.2023 Toimittaja
Mozambique

A fruitful, intensive week in Mozambique included workshops on TEPATE project activities at the Pedagogical University Maputo (UP) and ISET One World; an international conference; and courtesy visits and meetings with the UP’s and ISET One World’s top management, the Finnish ambassador and education counsellor at the Finnish embassy, and the Mozambican Vice-Minister of Education, […]

4.2.2022 Toimittaja

Videoblog 3 from the 21st Century Skills Nepal project

4.2.2022 Toimittaja
Nepal

Equitable access to teacher education in Nepal                      Producing a new university programme in the field of teacher education in Nepal is not an easy task, particularly when some of the teachers you are trying to reach live in work in the hills and valleys across the Himalayas. Nepal Open University has begun such a […]

22.10.2021 Toimittaja

Videoblog 2 from the 21st Century Skills Nepal project

22.10.2021 Toimittaja
Nepal

Collaborative communication and participatory decision-making leads to high quality co-creation development in a new masters degree course in digital pedagogy and 21st century skills in Nepal. This video was published in September. Video blog: What has Tribhuvan University learned so far? More information Project website

21.5.2021 Eeva Lehtonen

TEPATE Mozambique – development activities under way

21.5.2021 Eeva Lehtonen
Mozambique

The development activities of TEPATE project are proceeding according to plan. Due to the pandemic, the development activities are being carried out online, at least until the end of June. After that, the project activities continue in September. The modality of those activities will be assessed later. In March and April, the first part of […]

Dr Khana Rana from Nepal Open University
26.4.2021 Toimittaja

The 21st Century Skills Nepal – Video blog

26.4.2021 Toimittaja
Nepal

In spite of not being able to travel, work has progressed in Nepal and Finland to get the project started. Co-creation teams involving experts from Tribuhvan University and Nepal Open University from Kathmandu, Nepal, as well as JAMK and HAMK Universities of Applied Sciences in Finland have been collaborating remotely to organize online workshops to […]

Large group of project workers, men and women, in front of a building.
9.3.2021 Toimittaja

21st Century Skills in Action – To teach something you have to be able to do it yourself

9.3.2021 Toimittaja
Nepal

Creating a master’s degree programme that includes 21st century skills that qualifies successful graduates to work as a teacher is a complex matter. We first have to define what we mean by 21st century skills and then decide how to produce concrete learning tasks so that the ideas can be integrated into the educational programme […]

5.2.2021 Toimittaja

MOPEDE is turned on

5.2.2021 Toimittaja
Ethiopia Project info

The Capacity Building for Modernizing TVET Pedagogy in Ethiopia (MOPEDE) – project’s official opening event was held online on 26. January 2021. Over 50 representatives from partners and cooperatives in Ethiopia and Finland attended the event. Experts from Finnish partner universities JAMK and Centria, Federal TVET Institute and its Satellite colleges, Federal TVET Agency, Ministry […]

Detail from the world atlas, map showing the Southern part of Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in the middle.
5.2.2021 Eeva Lehtonen

TEPATE Mozambique – Key Experts’ thoughts after the Inception Phase

5.2.2021 Eeva Lehtonen
Mozambique

The Key Experts of the four partner institutions of the TEPATE project have now been working together for 5 months. Due to the on-going pandemic that prohibits face-to-face project meetings, the Key Experts had to start getting to know each other and working towards the project’s objectives entirely online. This has also meant getting acquainted […]

teacher education in Addis Abeba, computer class room
4.2.2021 Toimittaja

Modernizing the vocational teacher education in Ethiopia

4.2.2021 Toimittaja
Ethiopia

Pedagogical and technological development of e-learning is one of the strategic development areas in vocational teacher education and training in Ethiopia. According to the Ethiopian Education Development Roadmap (EEDR 2018) equity seems to be well addressed in TVET gender participation. The female participation, on average, is about 51 %, but female students are enrolled in […]

The kick-off event of the Theory-Practice Balance in Teacher Education Project was organised at the Universidade Pedagogica de Maputo. Participants sitting in the event room, most of the people are wearing face masks.
10.12.2020 Eeva Lehtonen

TEPATE Mozambique kick-off event successfully held

10.12.2020 Eeva Lehtonen
Mozambique

The kick-off event of the Theory-Practice Balance in Teacher Education Project was organised at the Universidade Pedagogica de Maputo, Mozambique on 24 November. The event was organised in a hybrid format that enabled both physical and online participation.                     Present were 70 participants, 57 out of […]

18.11.2020 Eeva Lehtonen

TEPATE Mozambique Project: Inception phase in full swing

18.11.2020 Eeva Lehtonen
Mozambique

HEI ICI projects start with an inception phase, the importance of which is greater than ever due to the on-going pandemic. The purpose of this phase of the project is to ensure that there is a clear, mutual understanding of the expected results set for the project among the project partners and core project group, […]

2.11.2020 Toimittaja

Higher Education Institution development projects in Ethiopia, Nepal and Mozambique have kicked off

2.11.2020 Toimittaja
Ethiopia Mozambique Nepal Project info

The Higher Education Institutions Institutional Cooperation Instrument (HEI ICI) Period 2020-2024 started on 1st of September. The Programme is funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and administered by the Finnish National Agency for Education. The Programme supports cooperation projects between higher education institutions in Finland and the developing world. In the current […]