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COL’s new Agricultural Training Programme ‘Foundations in Farming as a Business’ takes root in Jamaica

400 farmers from rural Jamaica are benefitting from an eight-week training programme…

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COL at IODL 2022: A final report

by Mr Dave Jackson Communications Manager It’s a wrap at one of…

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COL presents at IODL 2022

COL President and CEO, Professor Asha Kanwar, delivered a timely and topical…

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COL Attends the UN Transforming Education Summit

by Mr Dave Jackson Communications Manager “Education for all and education now”…

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October 6, 2022

For his contribution to transformational leadership, research & scholarship, the title of Honorary Fellow is conferred on Professor Alan Tait, Emeritus Professor of Distance Education and Development @OpenUniversity
at #PCF10. #ODL @AlanTait @AshaKanwarCOL @COL4D

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October 1, 2022

Happy #IndependenceDay #Nigeria! @COL4D thanks you for your support. We are pleased to work with your government and institutions to empower people through learning. Happy to have Mrs Maria Amedu as our Focal Point. @NGRPresident @NigEducation @noun_media @ntiedung

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October 1, 2022

To our friends and partners in #Cyprus - Happy #IndependenceDay ! Happy to have Professor George Angelos Papadopoulos as COL Focal Point.
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The Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, welcomes delegates, education ministers, university vice-chancellors, dignitaries and Prime Minister of Samoa, the Hon. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, to the inauguration ceremony of the 10th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF10) at the TELUS Convention Centre in Calgary, Sept. 15, 2022. ---- www.col.org | Twitter: @col4d | facebook.com/COL4D
Welcome address from PM Justin Trudeau to PCF10 Calgary
Pre-recorded video delivered by Professor Asha Kanwar, COL President & CEO at the celebratory memorial of Professor Narend Baijnath, Chair, COL Board of Governors organised jointly by the Council of Higher Education (CHE) and UNISA, South Africa, 1 July 2022. ---- This video is made available by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence (international): http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-sa/4.0. ---- www.col.org | Twitter: @col4d | facebook.com/COL4D
Tribute to Professor Narend Baijnath, Chair, COL Board of Governors
The podcast series is hosted by Dr Ann Wallace, Higher Education Management & eLearning Specialist. This series of ten episodes will feature Dr Wallace speaking with prominent females from each region of the Commonwealth to discuss “the road to female leadership”; conversations about the path to leadership and development as a female in the education, business, government, non-government, entrepreneurship, and health sectors. The final episode of the Commonwealth Wise Women podcast features Professor Rajani Naido, Professor of Higher Education Management and Director, International Centre for HE Management, University of Bath, UK. She and Dr Wallace discuss topics such as rational thinking in times of adversity, knowing when to ask for help, imposter syndrome and having an attitude of gratitude, with the thread being “leading with humility and truth”. This video is made available by the Commonwealth of Learning under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence (international): http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-sa/4.0.
Episode 10: Leading with Humility and Truth
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For his contribution to transformational leadership, as well as research and scholarship in Open and Distance Learning #ODL, Professor Asha Kanwar, COL's President and CEO on behalf of the Commonwealth of Learning, confer the title of Honorary Fellow of the Commonwealth of Learning to Fellow Professor Alan Tait, Emeritus Professor of Distance Education and Development The Open University #pcf10. ... See MoreSee Less

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400 farmers from rural Jamaica are benefitting from an eight-week #trainingprogramme sponsored by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) on how to treat #farming as a business and to maximise their earning potential. Using a combination of face-to-face #F2F and open and distance learning #ODL, the programme involves the use of mobile devices to train and mentor participants into higher levels of professionalism in #agriculture. www.col.org/news/cols-new-agricultural-training-programme-foundations-in-farming-as-a-business-ta... ... See MoreSee Less

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