Education advisor - 12 months temporary position

Save the Children Norway (SCN) runs programmes in Africa, Asia, Latin-America and Europe, working in close collaboration with the international Save the Children alliance. One of the main areas of collaboration is basic education.

The International Programme Department in Oslo has a vacant position in the Policy and Development section.

The position is a 12 month vacancy due to maternity leave, starting end of May, extension possible. The position is part of SCN's team of highly qualified education advisers and the Save the Children global initiative on education: Rewrite the Future.

Main responsibilities:

-Support development and implementation of Save the Children's international basic education programme, with an emphasis on strengthening the quality of education and the learning outcomes - particularly reading

-Support proposal writing and management of grants for education projects

-Support development and implementation of an improved education programme monitoring system

-Contribute to good collaboration at global SC level in programme development and capacity building for the Global Initiative on Education

Qualifications:

-Extensive experience with development of education, including field experience in the South.

-Masters degree or equivalent within education, preferably with an emphasis in international pedagogy / comparative education

-Knowledge and experience on monitoring of education, indicator application and reading tests.

-Excellent writing and presentation skills in English and Norwegian

-Experience with literacy work, knowledge of theory and practice on methods for learning to read will be an advantage

-Spanish language skills will be an advantage

For more information about the positions please call: Head of the Policy and Development section Sigurd Johns on +47 48080688 or Education Advisor Sine D. Christensen on +47 93846566

To apply, please click here

Electronic applications accepted by March 14th.

Region: Oslo

Job type: Temporary

Working hours: Full-time

Working days: Day

Application deadline: 14.03.10

Expected Start Date: 25.05.10

Location: Oslo

Save the Children Norway (Redd Barna) is a non governmental humanitarian organisation working to realise children's rights in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We are a member organisation and are politically and religiously independent. Save the Children Norway is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance which works in 110 countries.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the Irish nominee for EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation addressed the European Parliament recently. In her opening statement she declared that "the EU must become a true innovation union." She explained that "my task will be to put research, innovation and science at the heart of EU policies."

She presented three different issues that would be focused on as priorities should she take office:

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is expected to be officially appointed and begin serving as EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation starting 9 February.

First, they wanted to gain increased knowledge on the influence of the European Union [EU] on the world stage with a sharper focus on the economics of Higher Education and the implications of its theoretical frameworks at global level. Included in this objective, they wanted to explore how the EU has been involved in the enhancement of Higher Education in the developing countries.

Secondly, the students wished to visit the European University Association [EUA] to learn more on the anticipated impact of the recent economic crisis on Higher Education, especially in Europe and the Bologna Process on the issue of quality in Higher Education institutions.

Thirdly, the students wanted to learn more about the Flemish Higher Education system through a visit to the Vlaamse Onderwijsraad (Flemish Education Council). It was hoped that the students would have a comparable perspective of Higher Education in both Belgium and Norway, and this would help them assess how this diversity enables the European countries to merge under the European Credit Transfer System.

Further details on the study tour in Brussels and comments from students who participated on this tour can be found in the Brussels Report.pdf

The World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) is organizing the 14th World Congress. The World Council members normally meet every three years for a World Congress in which scholars, researchers and administrators interact with counterparts from around the globe on international issues concerning education.

The theme for 14th World Congress will be Bordering, Re-Bordering and New Possibilities for Change in Education and Society.

Where: Istanbul, Turkey

When: 14-18 June 2010

Registration is currently possible and early bird rates will be available until 1 March.

For more details about the conference and to participate, please click here.

The International Association of Universities (IAU) and Mykolas Romeris University are jointly organizing the 2010 IAU International Conference on Ethics and Values in Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation: What Role for the Disciplines?. It will be held at and hosted by Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius, Lithuania), on June 24-26, 2010.

How can disciplinary approaches and experiences enrich each other and contribute to instilling and promoting value-based and ethical higher education? How do perspectives on these issues differ across cultures? Can the higher education community envisage developing a global code of ethics in higher education? These and other subtopics will be the issues explored by keynote speakers and panellists in parallel workshop sessions.

For more details about the conference and to participate, please click here.

Up to 5 (five) research fellowships within the following prioritised research areas are available:

• Classroom research and subject didactics
• Educational leadership, school reform and education governance
• Comparative and international educational research
• Humanities studies in education
• Higher education and professional learning
• Modern childhood and research on young individuals
• Language development, text comprehension and literacy
• Special Needs Educational Research

This announcement is relevant for all the prioritised areas listed above, and the applicants must therefore prepare their project proposal so it is relevant for one of these areas. In the application the applicant must:

a) identify the research area within which application is being made, and the research-group they wish to be affiliated with
b) indicate the branch of study within the doctoral programme they are applying to.

For further details and to apply, please click here.

The day begins first with a trial lecture on the topic of "HIV prevention and the use of Social Ecological models for promoting young people's sexual and reproductive health in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: implications for research designs and methodology" at 10.15 in Auditorium 3, Helga Engs hus.

Then at 12.15 will begin the public defense of her dissertation titled "HIV prevention among young people in- and out-of-school in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania" also in Auditorium 3, Helga Engs hus.

For a summary of her dissertation, please click here.

PhD candidate Therese Nerheim Hopfenbeck will be defending her dissertation on Friday, 27 November 2009.

The day begins first with a trial lecture on the topic of "Transforming rationales for self-regulated learning into classroom practice. Prospects and challenges for teaching" at 10.15 in Auditorium 2, Helga Engs hus.

Then at 12.15 will begin the public defense of her dissertation titled "Learning about Students' Learning Strategies. An empirical and theoretical investigation of self-regulation and learning strategy questionnaries in PISA" also in Auditorium 2, Helga Engs hus.

For a summary of her dissertation (in Norwegian), please click here.

Location:
Helga Engs Hus
Auditorium 1

Speakers:

Dr. Amy Metcalfe, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Prof. Sheila Slaughter, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

Dr. Sergio M. Romo, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico

In this seminar the three speakers will address national as well as joint (=NAFTA) higher education issues. Their presentations will be based on their recent research projects, which include an international project on The Changing nature of the Academic Profession (CAP-project); a project comparing Mexican higher education, and the Mexican science and innovation systems with a number of other Latin American countries; and a project on International Graduate Education. In addition, the speakers will discuss the similarities and differences between higher education developments in NAFTA and the EU together with prof. Peter Maassen (PFI). There will also be ample time for questions and discussions with the audience.

Organised by:
EIE Research Group, PFI, Faculty of Education
HEEM Master Programme in Higher Education

We announce the availability of 2-3 positions as research assistants for ARENA and the RECON project.

We are looking for students who can work 1-2 days per week.
The main tasks are preparing manuscripts for printing, data collection and other forms of research administration.

The application deadline is 28 September, 2009.

For information about the the application process, please contact Ida Hjelmesæth (ida.hjelmesath@arena.uio.no).
For information about the positions, please contact Gro Stueland Skorpen (g.s.skorpen@arena.uio.no) or Nina M. Vestlund (n.m.vestlund@arena.uio.no)