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The education emergency

8 March 2015, 1:30pm

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On International Women's Day, March 8, 2015, 1:30-3 p.m., joint panels at The Junction, Cambridge and the Southbank Centre, London will discuss the following fundamental questions:

  • What difference does education make to lives worldwide?
  • What are the impacts on women and girls of education being unavailable, inaccessible or actively denied?
  • What policy options might be effective in securing the right to safe and quality education for all around the globe?

Chaired by Dame Barbara Stocking (previously head of Oxfam), speakers include:

  • Professor of International Education Pauline Rose
  • Malala’s former teacher Mariam Khalique
  • zoah Hedges-Stocks from the Showman Traveller community,
  • Lucy Lake
  • Fatima Yakubu from Camfed.

There will be a live link to a panel at the Southbank Centre, London with education activist Baela Raza Jamil from Pakistan.

Cambridge Venue: The Junction, J2 Theatre, Clifton Way, CB1 7GX

March 8, 2015, 1:30-3 p.m. There is no need to book.