The intent of this blog is twofold; primarily to provide you with a quick reference guide (albeit, in my own words, with a student bias) to any of the keynotes, workshops and panel discussions you'd like to refresh your memory of, and perhaps gain a slightly...

Our final talk, from Natarajan Ishwaran (Director of Ecological and Earth Sciences Division, UNESCO) and Rob Bernard (General Manager Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft) concerned that ever present consideration - the environment. The role of...

Themes: Innovation in 21st Century Learning and Teaching Building Institutional Readiness Expert panel speakers:- Dr. Hoda Baraka Ministry of Information Technology and Communication, Egypt Richard Descoings President, Institut d...

Anoop Gupta, Microsoft Corporate VP spoke of, and demonstrated how technology can be used to solve so many problems today - as well as sharing his learnings from his experiences as an educator at Stanford University. The case for scale A point...

Themes: Access & Quality Delivering on the Needs of Employability Expert panel speakers:- Dr. Suaad Fahad Alharthi Saudi Ministry of Higher Education Dr. Bruno Lanvin INSEAD Dr. Jan-Martin Lowendah Gartner Dr Tarek G. Shawki...

Commissioner Jan Figel spoke well of the national benefits of education - and the true benefits to a society that lifelong learning can bring. Autonomy, and responsibility for all of those in the academic space was highlighted as a must, and the twin...

A panel discussion put four HE students to discuss their current projects, and also the problems and challenges they've noted in their personal experiences with educations - and some ideas for how to solve these. Infrastructure Our four students...

Themes: Successful tertiary education Enabling development that can be sustainable Expert panel speakers:- Prof. Datuk Ansary Bin Ahmed CEO, Asia E-University Prof. Roberto Carneiro Catholic University of Portugal Dr. Diana Oblinger...

Mr Abdul Waheed Khan, Assistant Director General for Communication & Information, UNESCO reminded us of the key challenges we face with HE. I know that these have been mentioned before, but it's well to constantly have them at the top of our minds...

A copy of Ralph Young's speech may be found here . Ralph Young, Microsoft Vice President, World Wide Public Sector gave the second introductory talk, raising some interesting points about precisely why Microsoft feels so strongly about education, and...

Margaret Spellings, US Secretary for Education led the first keynote with an inspiring talk around education in the United States, and gave some interesting ideas that could be taken elsewhere - as well as alerting us to some challenges faced in the US...

A PDF copy of the Director General's speech may be found here . Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General of UNESCO kicked off the proceedings by highlighting the sheer scope of the problems faced, worldwide, in education. But 'problems' is a harsh word...

Who are we? What is this? The Education Leaders' Forum 2008 is hosted not only to form new connections and stimulate & expand upon new ideas, it is to serve as a catalyst for action to improve the lives of students everywhere. We are two such students...