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, […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]