WISE 2013 Opening Plenary Session: Reinventing Education for Life
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Channel: WISE Channel · 2014 · Education
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. SUBSCRIBE to get more videos from WISE: http://www.youtube.com/WISEQatar?sub_confirmation=1 World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) is an international, multi-sectoral and action-oriented platform for innovation in education that connects innovators, nurtures new ideas, and recognizes and supports successful initiatives that are helping revitalize education. For more information about WISE: http://www.wise-qatar.org Follow WISE on Twitter: http://twitter.com/WISE_Tweets Like WISE on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wiseqatar
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