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October 10, 2017
Hundreds seek info on overseas education
When hundreds of students flocked to the Shangri-La Hotel in Jakarta on Sunday to discover what kind of education Canada has to offer, one of the first people many met was a robot.
A woman’s face peered out of a computer screen on top of a meter-high post fixed to a wheeled base. The post was dressed in a black T-shirt bearing the acronym DTUCS, which stands for Ding The Universe Canadian [learning] System. The robot trundled around the lobby, approaching and surprising future university students with a cheery: “Hi!”
October 26, 2017
Indonesian academics seek info on Canadian workshops
Two Canadian academics are in Indonesia to help their local colleagues become part of an international network of anti-extremism workshops.
Ayaz Naseem and Adeela Arshad-Ayaz, both education professors at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, are on a whirlwind tour of Java to meet with people interested in conducting a Symposium on Teaching about Extremism, Terror and Trauma in this country.
"Basically the idea was to create a series in which there were multiple voices on the issues of extremism and terrorism and radicalization and these are the voices that are usually not a part of the conversation," they explained.
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April 20, 2018
Equality for peacekeepers starts at home: MIKTA
Countries that want to send more women as peacekeepers on United Nations missions must first enhance female roles in their own police and military.
That was one of the conclusions from a MIKTA panel discussion on women and peacekeeping held in Jakarta on Thursday called “Breaking the Ceiling, Keeping the Peace” that involved representatives from all five member countries: Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey and Australia.