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Tanzania is prepared to join the Sustainability Starts with Teachers (SST) programme as the eighth country in Southern Africa, starting with a workshop from 27 to 28 April 2021. With funding from SIDA and targeting teacher educators, SST is a collaborative capacity-building programme on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) that runs in 11 countries in southern Africa over four years.
The United Republic of Tanzania embraces the achievement of high quality and sustainable human development for its citizens. This is engraved in the country’s constitution and in its long-term development visions. There is a strong nation-wide partnership and commitment to implementation, monitoring, tracking and reporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), backed by a strong political will, collective ownership, integrated planning, and supportive legal frameworks. A “whole-of-society” approach has been adopted, and a robust national SDGs coordination and monitoring framework, su
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Thursday 22nd April 2021
Ministers Foley and Harris announce Joint Public Consultation on a National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development to 2030
Minister for Education Norma Foley TD and Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD have today (22 April 2021) on World
Earth Day launched a joint public consultation on the development of the Second National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to 2030, by the two Departments.
Earth Day is an international event celebrated around the world to pledge support for environmental protection. This year s theme for Earth Day is climate action .
Minister Foley said: “Achieving the 2030 targets set out by the United Nations in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a key aim in the
Times Higher Education Global Impact Rankings
York University Posts Top Scores in Times Higher Education Global Impact Ranking 2021
April 21, 2021
For the third year in a row, York University has been ranked highly by the Times Higher Education (THE) global Impact Ranking, which ranks universities on their work towards the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This year, York has placed 11
th in Canada and 67
th overall against 1,115 post-secondary institutions from 94 different countries.
“York’s strong performance in the rankings this year is a result of the extraordinary efforts of our students, faculty, course directors, staff, and alumni, whose dedication to our communities and our planet has helped us make great strides in furthering the UN SDGs,” said Rhonda Lenton, President and Vice-Chancellor. “We are proud of the way our community members have come together in support of the SDGs, and grateful for their passion, enthusiasm, and continued
19 July 2021.
Early-career female researchers from 21 least developed member countries of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) are eligible for an ambitious new postdoctoral programme offered by IsDB and TWAS. The fellowships will support research related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, providing recipients with high-level training in areas relevant to sustainability science.
IsDB-TWAS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Skills Building in Sustainability Science – Women only – are tenable at centres of excellence in developing countries from this list: https://twas.org/developing-countries-south, i.e. research institutions with a well-established track record in research and a demonstrated competency in a field relevant to sustainability science.
Firm proponents of the need to save the planet, the STEAM club members of Caleb British International School, comprising year seven to Year 11 students, have been driving a tree planting advocacy by creating a 3D recycled project on ‘Restoring our Forests’ which highlights the benefits of planting trees geared towards instilling the culture of maintaining the ecosystem and sustaining the rainforest. Chiemelie Ezeobi reports that the project recently won them the David Shepherd Award in London at the 2021 Global Canvas Art Competition
In the quest for urbanisation, most cities were replaced by buildings, asphalt roads and bridges with no care for how trees could still remain in the landscape. The resultant effect is a degraded environment left at the whims and caprices of climate change.