Aims and Objectives
We believe that:
If we start with education, there is the potential to create a more just and equitable, knowledge based society
That education of our citizens is the only way to maximize the overall potential of society
Through reasoned and open debate educators can offer society sound and practical steps to improve education
That educators working together, across national, political and racial divides, can best produce the ideas and methodologies that can best benefit the education of citizens
Guiding Aims
The guiding aims of the GEF are:
To improve - the education of citizens globally
To share - educational knowledge between rich and poor nations and between privileged and under-privileged sectors of society and to bridge digital and educational divides
To listen - to the voice of educators from every field and level of education and to incorporate their experience and knowledge in to local, national and regional education
To bridge - political, national, racial and religious divides within education
To enable - educators from every level and field of education to work together, to gain from the interaction of their experience and knowledge
To breakdown - dividing walls between expert areas and to show that the whole is more than the parts
To understand - that equality of education is the best hope for the future of our planet
Specific Objectives
These aims are focused through specific objectives:
To create a global network of educators that will conduct open-discussions. The discussions will look at global and specialist issues, and build understanding and knowledge between widely disparate educators
To create a group of funding businesses, agencies and foundations that will enable the foundation to fulfill its Aims and Objectives
To create a mechanism whereby global and specific areas of education that require urgent attention can be identified, and were knowledge based solutions, can be implemented effectively and with impact
To design calls for projects by partnerships, analyze proposals and fund international projects
To build a global network of coordinators that will disseminate information to and from their local region
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Call for and manage global projects for the betterment of education by building partnerships of educators from many countries.
Disseminate results of the projects globally to maximise impact.
Apart from Youth benefiting from the projects we see there active involvement in direct involvement in the projects.
Areas of opportunity will be include:
Running the foundation
Involvement in local area coordination
Strategic ideas and directions
Testing and evaluating projects
Implementing and disseminating project results
etc.
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