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Tanzania embarks on the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme
Tanzania is the eighth country to join the Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) programme. A virtual workshop held on 27 and 28 April 2021 kick-started the implementation of the programme in Tanzania. Over 50 Teacher Educators, Technical Vocational Education, and...
Eswatini geared up to join the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme
Eswatini will become the ninth country in Southern Africa to join the Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme, with an inaugural workshop to be held from 4 to 5 May 2021. With funding from SIDA, the programme responds to the fact that teacher education needs to...
Mwekera Beekeeping Forum – Ruth Mulenga, Edgar Bowa, Musunke Kanyembo Chisenga, Zambia Forestry College
The Mwekera National Forest reserve was strategically designed to be a buffer for the Kafue River owing to the numerous streams found in the forest area. However, the forest is under extreme pressure from human activities including illegal settlement, charcoal...
Enhancing learning through intensive gardening – Change Project Story – Zambia 2020
This change project involved using intensive urban gardening as an avenue for practically augmenting what is learnt in the classroom in two ways: 1. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) subjects. 2. ECE (Early Childhood Education) To continue...
Zambia’s Newsletter for March – DMSE Change Project
To Read more about the DMSE Change Project of Copperbelt University Mathematics & Science Education click here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ksGftcbJqo2khxsjDAfxP9oZQszQMFWm/view?usp=sharing
Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme kicks off in Malawi
Malawi launched the Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) programme with a two-day workshop on 23 and 24 March 2021. Held in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown, the virtual workshop was attended by 55 Teacher educators, Technical Vocational Education, and Training...
Malawi set to join Sustainability Starts with Teachers programme
Malawi becomes the seventh country to join the “Sustainability Starts with Teachers” (SST) programme with a workshop set for 23 to 24 March 2021. With funding from SIDA, the programme responds to the fact that teacher education needs to be aligned with the Sustainable...
2020 Progress: Lesotho, Zambia and South Africa in focus
In early March 2020, the Lesotho and Zambia country workshops were successfully held in Maseru and Lusaka. However, due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the South African in-country workshop planned for April has been postponed until May. The regional...
Lesotho gears up for Sustainability Starts with Teachers workshop
Thirty participants have been invited from various teacher education and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions across Lesotho to attend the Capacity Building Programme for Teachers on Education for Sustainable Development (CAP-ESD), held on...
Zimbabwe Change Project peer review workshop
Five teacher education and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions from the southern region of Zimbabwe met in Bulawayo on the 14th of February 2020 to review their Change Projects’ progression. Change Projects are transformation initiatives...
Inclusion of ESD in school curricula and activities on course
Stakeholders and participants of the Capacity-Building Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (CAP-ESD) met in Harare on 31st January 2020 to review their Change Projects. Change Projects are institutional change initiatives to support the integration of...
2019 Progress: Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana nearing completion of the first cycle
In 2019 in country workshops were held in Botswana, Zimbawbe and Nambia. From these in-country workshops, a group of 30 participants were selected to attend the Regional Training of Trainers Programme which took place at Rhodes University from 25 September to 5...
Turning dump material into useful audio visual aids for Primary School Education in Masvingo
Joseph Tsikira, a principal lecturer in the Early Childhood Development (ECE) Department at Masvingo Teachers' College dreamt of making personal contributions to teacher education development. Tsikira is one of the teacher trainers taking part in UNESCO’s...
Critical Thinking skills for Zero litter goal in Mutare
A couple of years ago, walking through the pathways of Marymount Teachers’ College one would see litter scattered everywhere. Today, the college has become the example of what zero litter means with no trace or smell of litter anywhere on the campus. This is a result...
Bindura University integrates Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Development into their course outline
In an effort to protect and preserve natural environment the Bindura University of Science Education has embarked on a project named ‘Utilisation of the Biosphere Reserves and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Science teaching and learning’. The project seeks to...