Visit the new website of our partner in Uganda, Ambrose Kikuuba.

Ambrose Kibuuka has been working with educationists and students at variuos levels, helping them to develop tools and insights for thinking outside-the-box, as a means of improving the quality of educational outcomes. It is clear that most educational practices are focused on producing examination passers, without necessarilly meeting the personal empowerment needs of the learners. The insights Ambrose raises in his articles and book  capture the imagination of African and no African teachers and students.

The articles published in his website will help individual teachers and educational institutions to explore innovative ways of providing authentic education.

On his article Teaching Deep without Teaching Hard, Ambrose explores learner-centered teaching methods and calls them “Teaching Deep” as opposed to Teaching Hard, which he describes as “reducing human beings to merely rote-learning creatures”!

Another Academic Year at the United World College of the Adriatic has just ended. An amazing Closing Ceremony took place in Duino on Saturday 23 of May.

Within the United World College Programme for school support in Uganda, a teachers’ Professional Development  Seminar was organised in the Good Samaritan Primary School in Nasuuti, Mukono town. The Seminar was conducted by  Ambrose Kibuuka Mukiibi, a brilliant ugandan trainer and human development consultant.  Ambrose  is one of the founders of Edirisa, the United World College of the Adriatic’s main partner organisation for education projects in Uganda.  A full report of the Seminar will be published soon.

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A student from Liceo Scientifico Marinelli in Udine, who participated in our Conference, wrote an article for the local newspaper “Messaggero Veneto”. It’s an amazing description of the mission of the United World College in Duino. Thanks to Isabella and to her teacher Patrizia Zin.

The article can be downloaded HERE.

The second International Conference of the Agency for Cooperation in Secondary Education was held on Saturday, 29 November 2008 at the United World College of the Adriatic in Duino. It was a consultative meeting with more than 70 teachers, directors and delegates from different institutions in Italy, Slovenia and Austria. They discussed a new European project which, if approved, will lead to the creation of a permanent “laboratory” that will identify, experiment with and diffuse techniques for cross border integration in the field of secondary education. This laboratory could start its activities from January 2010. Often when you try to learn about others you find yourself in a sort of Labyrinth. Our project will help students and teachers to find their way out of their labyrinth to an integrated cross border community. More…

The United World College of the Adriatic is organizing an  international event dedicated to cooperation in Secondary Education in the cross border area between Italy, Slovenia and Austria.

The Conference, which will take place in the outstanding location of Duino (Trieste, Italy) on the 25^th November  2008, will be an opportunity for professional development of teachers across countries, encouraging the pooling of ideas and collaboration across borders for the benefit of institutional representatives, teachers and students and  aiming at a permanent laboratory for integration among secondary education and cultural institutions of the cross border area between Slovenia, Italy and Austria.

Policy makers at institutional level, heads of schools, teacher, student and media representatives from Italy, Austria and Slovenia have been invited to the event.

Please find attached the PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE and the REGISTRATION FORM

A long article on the achievements of the PACE Project was published in the September edition of the magazine “United World”.

Read the article HERE on page 7.

The Business Plan of the Agency for Cooperation in Secondary Education was among the 10 finalists of the prize “Start Cup” organised by the University of Trieste. Start Cup is a competition among innovative projects of business.

Find here the PACE trailer.

This short video is a compelling presentation of the PACE Project and of its results. It has subtitles in English and Italian. It was published over the summer by our great multimedia consultant Max Mucchiut.

What more appropriate venue for a demonstration of excellent teaching practice than the Centre of Excellence in Education at the University of Ca’ Foscari , Venice, ( CENEC), where PACE teachers, covering a full spectrum of subjects, presented their experience of the PACE Project.

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