By Madeleine White, capacity building and communications specialist. Changing World, New Relationships - a Message from the World Islamic Economic Forum in London I am at the opening session of the 9th World Islamic Economic Forum in the Excel conference centre London. Before me are 16 world leaders - from HM King Abdullah II of Jordan, to […]
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Driving Risk, Reaping Rewards: G8 Investment Conference
By Madeleine White, capacity building and communications specialist. Driving Risk, Reaping Rewards: Perspectives from the G8 Deauville Partnership Investment Conference It’s nearly a year since I wrote my first blog. Having spent time at the World Bank in Washington and linking that to the great experiences I had had when I visited Kurdistan I felt compelled […]
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Nation Building : Empowering Women in Business and Employment
By Madeleine White, educationalist, writer and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Whizz Education. Apologies for not writing my usual monthly update. I do have a good reason though, I was involved with an inspiring conference at the end of June in London and have been working to respond to the passion, ideas and concepts shared ever since. The […]
Education - the Most Powerful Weapon of All
By Madeleine White, educationalist, writer and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Whizz Education. "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela I have seen many weapons in the last few days. A meat cleaver, brandished by a blood-covered young man in Woolwich, London - caught on a homemade […]
Building the Educational Pipeline in Kurdistan
By Madeleine White, educationalist, writer and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Whizz Education. As I have mentioned previously, education is never just about a school building. A school is a function or a service, set within a suitable building that is able to support people to reach their full potential. In order for this to happen there are […]
Different Voices – Harnessing the Diaspora
By Madeleine White, educationalist, writer and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Whizz Education. Last month saw the US Ambassador Fund offering grants from $200k to £2 million in order to find “creative and effective approaches to promote reconciliation and stability in Iraq and to improve the institutional capacity”. Other events include next month’s signing of a five year […]
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Announcement: Ownership of Knowledge, Transfer in Progress….
By Madeleine White, educationalist, writer and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Whizz Education. I love books. The sense that I am holding something that belongs to me is precious - even down to the physical smell. This sense of ownership was extreme in my teenage years. I refused to lend anyone my books - somehow they were a […]
Education for All – Cultural Empowerment, Political Imperative
Picture: Dr Mahmoud Osman, Member of the Council of Representatives Iraq, speaking at yesterday's conference. By Madeleine White, educationalist, writer and Head of Strategic Partnerships, Whizz Education. I was going to write about Educational Technology, as Bett (the world’s leading educational technology event) is happening in London at the end of the month. I also […]
Recycling Natural Resources into Knowledge
By Madeleine White, former teacher and educational writer and Head of Marketing, Whizz Education. This month’s announcement of closer collaboration between Europe and Iraq, coupled with last month’s WISE 2012 summit in Qatar, provides a great starting point for exploring the role of the Middle East in driving global collaboration and knowledge-share in Education. It is clear that oil […]