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President's Message for International Women's Day 2023
No full textInternational Women's Day 2023 message from Professor Asha Kanwar, COL President & CEO, 8 March 2023
Climate Literacy for Community Media: A Systematic Learning Curriculum
No full textIndia faces its own set of climate-related challenges such as extreme weather events, water scarcity, air pollution, rapid urbanization and its impact is worst on the most vulnerable and poor. This systematic learning curriculum attempts to simply climate issues and make them more understandable, relevant and relatable, particularly for communities that are living in coastal, drought-prone, and tribal-inhabited areas.
Community media can play a crucial role in raising awareness about climate change, its causes, and its consequences. This curriculum is an effort to provide effective communication strategies that can help community media to educate and empower their communities. As climate action often requires local action and local solutions- even if the problem is global, the curriculum adopts a ‘glocal’ perspective, and highlights local initiatives, innovative practices and replicable solutions for addressing climate related issues
Gender Profile 2023: Kenya
No full textThe Gender Country Profile outlines a country’s available data and rankings regarding gender equality. The profile is first a summary of the country’s demographic overview and rankings within established global indices for sustainable development and gender equity. The profile then follows the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index framework to provide statistics on each country in detail
Towards a Framework for Open Schooling
No full textInvited presentation by Dr Tony Mays, COL Education Specialist: Open Schooling, to a consultative meeting about the establishment of an open school by UNISA, South Africa on 29 May, 2023. Presentations were also made by Bangladesh Open University Open School and by Saide
Mediating Role of Teachers’ Effective Communication Skills in the Relationship between Interpersonal Mindfulness and Subjective Well-Being
No full textThe purpose of this study is to determine whether teachers’ effective communication skills were a mediator in the relationship between interpersonal mindfulness and subjective well-being. 315 teachers participated in this study which was designed as a correlational model. Personal Information Form, Interpersonal Mindfulness Scale-TR (IMS-TR), Effective Communication Skills Scale (ECSS), Positive and Negative Emotion Scale (PANAS), and Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS) were used to collect data. To determine the mediating role of effective communication skills in the relationship between interpersonal mindfulness and subjective well-being, Bootstrapping method was applied. The results revealed that indirect effect of interpersonal mindfulness on subjective well-being via effective communication skills was statistically significant. Effective communication skills were a partial mediator in the relationship between interpersonal mindfulness and subjective well-being of teachers. Consequently, interpersonal mindfulness may enhance effective communication skills and owing to this rising subjective well-being may grow stronger
Skilling our Youth at Speed and Scale
No full textVideo presentation by Professor Asha Kanwar, President & CEO, Commonwealth of Learning, at the Africa TVET Regulators Conference, Nairobi, Kenya on 30 November 2023
Teacher Skills Required for Blended TVET: Analysis and Guidelines
No full textThis analysis and guidelines aim to establish the key issues and considerations in describing the new or modified digital and professional skills TVET teachers require for blended delivery. The accompanying Digital and Professional Teacher Competency Standards for Blended TVET presents the draft competency standards
Gender Profile 2023: The Gambia
No full textThe Gender Country Profile outlines a country’s available data and rankings regarding gender equality. The profile is first a summary of the country’s demographic overview and rankings within established global indices for sustainable development and gender equity. The profile then follows the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index framework to provide statistics on each country in detail
Gender Profile 2023: Singapore
No full textThe Gender Country Profile outlines a country’s available data and rankings regarding gender equality. The profile is first a summary of the country’s demographic overview and rankings within established global indices for sustainable development and gender equity. The profile then follows the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index framework to provide statistics on each country in detail
Gender Profile 2023: Eswatini
No full textThe Gender Country Profile outlines a country’s available data and rankings regarding gender equality. The profile is first a summary of the country’s demographic overview and rankings within established global indices for sustainable development and gender equity. The profile then follows the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Index framework to provide statistics on each country in detail