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VVOB joins Teacher Task Force Steering Committee

For the next 2 years, VVOB will be part of the Teacher Task Force’s Steering Committee, a responsibility VVOB is ready and proud to take up after more than two years of membership.

Belgium

Cambodia

DR Congo

Ecuador

Kenya

Uganda

Rwanda

Suriname

Vietnam

Zambia

Zimbabwe

South Africa

Teachers

20/11/2018

Children’s rights in times of the Learning Crisis

On 20 November, we celebrate the 29th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. But the road to fulfilling article 29 – on the right to quality education – is proving a long one, as VVOB General Director Sven Rooms explains.

Belgium

Cambodia

DR Congo

Ecuador

Kenya

Uganda

Rwanda

Suriname

Vietnam

Zambia

Zimbabwe

South Africa

Early education

Secondary education

Primary education

Secondary technical and vocational education

Teachers

School leaders

12/11/2018

Developing entrepreneurial mindsets in the DRC’s youth

Agriculture in the DR Congo presents ample business opportunities, but a lot remains to be done before we can expect the country’s youthful population to successfully exploit them. Quality entrepreneurship education in secondary agricultural schools is a possible effective path.

DR Congo

Secondary technical and vocational education

Teachers

School leaders

05/11/2018

African Union recognises VVOB as top education innovator

At the Innovating Education in Africa Expo in Senegal last October, the African Union acknowledged VVOB as one of the top 50 education innovators in Africa for its work in Rwanda.

Rwanda

Zambia

South Africa

School leaders

25/10/2018

Boosting professional reflection and change in preschools

Quality teachers play the most important role in improving children’s learning outcomes. VVOB works alongside teachers in ethnically diverse districts in Vietnam to make sure every child benefits from quality education by applying process-oriented child monitoring.

Vietnam

Early education

Teachers

Equity

11/10/2018

Unravelled: 3 forms of gender-based violence in Cambodia

Kaat Van Horen, recent graduate from Catholic University Leuven (Belgium), spent nine months in Cambodia working with VVOB on her thesis about school-related gender-based violence. The results of her research define the baseline of our TIGER project.

Cambodia

Primary education

Gender

05/10/2018

Professional learning communities: where teachers support teachers

Paul Mphisa works for VVOB in South Africa, where he facilitates professional learning communities for teachers. He tells us more about how VVOB strengthens teachers to teach more inclusively in his country.

South Africa

Primary education

Equity

02/10/2018

How to create a gender responsive school environment

Christin Ho of a Belgian centre of expertise for gender equality joined our colleagues in Cambodia to finalise an action guide for gender responsive education. With this guide, the TIGER project transforms the Provincial Teacher Training Centre and 40 schools into centres of excellence for gender.

Cambodia

Secondary education

Primary education

Gender

Partnerships

26/09/2018

Diversity in preschools: an asset

Trần Thị Kim Lý, education advisor for VVOB in Vietnam, shares how a tool called 'process-oriented child monitoring' can help keep all children on board in preschool, even the most vulnerable ones...

Vietnam

Early education

Teachers

Equity

Offices

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VVOB joins Teacher Task Force Steering Committee

Children’s rights in times of the Learning Crisis

Developing entrepreneurial mindsets in the DRC’s youth

African Union recognises VVOB as top education innovator

Boosting professional reflection and change in preschools

Unravelled: 3 forms of gender-based violence in Cambodia

Professional learning communities: where teachers support teachers

How to create a gender responsive school environment

Diversity in preschools: an asset

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