Qatar wins World Cup and education too!

04 Dec 2010

The second World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) kicks off in Doha, Qatar next week. I will be there to chair the three main plenary sessions which will cover: funding, innovation, and improvement to education systems.

Some 1,250 delegates from all over the world will be there to hear some of the most influential speakers on education.

The speakers include:

Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
Steen Jorgensen, The World Bank
Lord Puttnam, Chairman, Futurelab UK
Prof. Quifeng Zhou, President, Peking University
Prof. Nigel Harris, Vice Chancellor, the University of the West Indies
HE Fasli Jalal, Vice Minister of Education, Indonesia
Michael Stevenson, VP for Education, Cisco
Dr Scott Cowen, President, Tulane University, USA.

The summit will tackle the big issue of how to ensure new methods of funding education at a time of global economic uncertainty and austerity on government spending.

Speakers will also tackle the challenge of how to deliver expansion in education systems - to reach those not yet benefiting from education, to cope with demographic growth, and to increase capacity for the growing numbers staying-on into further and higher education.

The whole conference will live up to the WISE name by looking at innovative trends in education, be they technological, cognitive, or system-wide reform.

The event starts on Tuesday and I will be blogging from Doha throughout.

Meanwhile, you can see the full programme and further details here: www.wise-qatar.org/en/Summit/Summit-2010/Programme-2010