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Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education for the Future We Want
High Level Policy Forum, UNESCO, 9-11 July
鈥淭he world is online. Students must be online,鈥 argues one of the respondents to a recent UNESCO questionnaire about the potential of communication and information technologies (ICT) to bring quality, open and flexible higher education to women and men, including those who cannot access traditional higher education.
This subject will be addressed by some 140 policy makers, leading practitioners and stake holders, including academics, students and members of nongovernmental organizations, from all over the world during a policy forum at UNESCO Headquarters from 9 to 11 June (cf ).
Organized with the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE), the event will build on recent about the education targets in the sustainable development goals that will coordinate international development for the next 15 years, as well the Qingdao Declaration on the role of ICT in education.
The event will be opened by Qian Tang, UNESCO鈥檚 Assistant Director-General for Education and Gard Titlestad, Secretary General of the ICDE. It will be followed at 10 a.m. by a keynote address by Mandla S. Makhanya, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa who will examine policy challenges facing governments and institutions in this field.
More information, including a background report compiled by ICDE is available .
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Journalists wishing to cover the event should request accreditation from Djibril K茅b茅: UNESCO Press Service, d.kebe(at)unesco.org
