WISE 2013 Opening Plenary Session: Reinventing Education for Life

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This year's WISE Summit theme -- Reinventing Education for Life -- focused on the urgent need to make education more relevant to the global realities of life today and the crucial role of innovation in achieving this. The opening session set the scene and announced the agenda for the three days of debates and other sessions that followed.It will include short speeches by Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation, and Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani, Ph.D., Chairman of WISE. A highlight of the session was the announcement of this year's WISE Prize for Education laureate.

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