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documents. KAIROS is "committed to supporting and encouraging the changes that are urgently needed in education, for which we work with the authorities, management teams, researchers, teachers, students, communities and peoples of the world in response to the new challenges that education faces to be effectively a key factor of sustainable development", and predominantly works in the Global South. ADEF also presented at the Africa
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in March 2016, was to share policies and practices in teacher education from around the globe. ADEF was represented at the 9th Policy
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Congress World Education Research Association]) in Cape town in August 2018. Subsequently, the group was also invited to present the development of DNTEA at the 11th Policy Dialogue Forum of the International Task
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The third meeting was held during the DETA 2015 Conference, July 2015, hosted by the Mauritius Institute of Education. The meeting was co-facilitated by Dr Oomandra Varma, Director of the Mauritius Institute of Education, and Prof Irma Eloff, Dean of the Faculty of Education,
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