The ,Comparative & International Education Society organizes each year what may be the largest research conference on education globally. The theme for the ,March 2024 conference in Miami is "the power of protest". The deadline for submitting proposals has been extended until August 17th, 2023 at 11:59 pm ET. Please visit the CIES Conference site, for instructions on paper submissions and conference registration. For any questions, please write to conference@cies.us or oed@cies.us. Date limite prolongée pour les soumissions à la conférence CIES pour 2024 La Comparative & International ..read more

The new Global Education Monitoring Report which this year focuses on technology is now available. There are often bitter divisions in how the role of technology is viewed. These divisions are widening as the technology is evolving at breakneck speed. The 2023 GEM Report explores these debates, examining education challenges to which appropriate use of technology can offer solutions (access, equity and inclusion; quality; technology advancement; system management), while recognizing that many solutions proposed may also be detrimental. The report also explores three system-wide conditions (acc ..read more

The global launch of the 2023 GEM Report on technology in education will take place on 26-27 July 2023 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The event will bring together ministers of education and ministers of information and communications technology, alongside regional organizations, international donors, parents, teachers, civil society, and representatives from the private sector to promote a high-level dialogue around the opportunities and challenges for the use of technology in education, and the conditions that need to be met for technology to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal ..read more

UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme aims to: (i) facilitate preservation of the world's documentary heritage, particularly in areas affected by conflict and/or natural disaster; (ii) enable universal access to documentary heritage worldwide; and (iii) enhance public awareness about the significant of documentary heritage among the wider public. In May 2023, the archives maintained by the International Movement ATD Fourth World on the lives and history of the extreme poor were recognized as part of the Memory of the World Register. ATD Fourth World was founded by Father Joseph Wresinski, a C ..read more

Pope Francis will create 21 new cardinals at a consistory on September 30. This will be the ninth consistory since his election 10 years ago. The new cardinals come from Argentina, Colombia, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, South Sudan, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the United States. Up to 18 of the 21 new cardinals will be young enough to be able to elect the next pope, depending on when such an election may be needed. The number of cardinals from the global south has steadily increased under Pope Francis' papacy. The list of the new cardinals with short biogra ..read more

You may be interested in a news article from Australia on the experience of the Director of Catholic Education Canberra Goulburn in using the science of learning to improve teacher training and student performance. The article goes on to discuss a broader reform of teacher education being adopted in Australia with three key points: (1) Universities have been given two years to overhaul their education degrees; (2) Changes they must adopt include teaching classroom management, and effective ways to teach reading and writing; and (3) Education ministers have agreed "in principle" with the change ..read more

It has long been predicted that some Catholic universities in the United States could face financial difficulties as the number of students enrolling in higher education is declining in the country due to both demographics and rising concerns about the cost of higher education. The covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated those risks. In the last few months, several universities, large and small, have experienced such difficulties. The largest Catholic university by enrollment in the United States, DePaul University in Chicago, announced a deficit of $56 million. A smaller university in Pennsylvania ..read more

On June 23, IFCU is planning a webinar on "Climate Change: What role for universities?" Despite the dire warnings that multiple actors in the international community have been voicing for decades about the potentially catastrophic consequences of global warming, it seems that many key players – governments, governance bodies, international forums – are only beginning to react to the changing climate conditions that all of us are already experiencing. Generation Z, however, is vastly committed to the issue, and this, among other factors, is prompting a growing number of universities around the ..read more

The Global Catholic Education project team and OIEC again received three awards this year from the Catholic Media Association (in 2022 as well, the project received three awards). The awards received this year were as follows: (1) & (2) Catholic Book Awards, Best book e-edition only (1st and 2nd places) for the Global Catholic Education Report 2022 and the Global Report in Integral Human Development 2022; and (3) a Catholic Press Award for Best package for political issues (2nd place) for communications around World Catholic Education Day. We are very grateful for this recognition! Le proj ..read more

IFCU Digitalization Forum (June 6, 2023 in English, 10-12.15 AM Paris Time) The Covid crisis has accelerated older developments, in particular that of the growing role of digital technology in higher education. These transformations concern the organization of the university, teaching and pedagogy, and therefore the evolution of the profession of teacher-researcher. Aware of the importance of these issues, IFCU is offering two half-days bringing together players from the academic world and education technologies at the same time. Adopting a global approach, this event will be a moment of dialo ..read more