The CBCI Office for Education and Culture has planned to organise a National Symposium on Catholic Education for the Leaders in Education to reflect on our ministry of education in our country. This Symposium will be held on 23-25 November 2023, at St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru. Our main focus is on Catholic Educators and Leaders. They need to herald…
Yesterday evening, a major earthquake struck the province of Al Haouz in Morocco, killing more than a thousand people in the provinces and prefectures of Al Haouz, Marrakech, Ouarzazate, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudant. The earthquake also injured 1,200 people. The provisional toll bears witness to the seriousness of this natural disaster, which has plunged many Moroccan families into mourning. On…
On September 9th, the Secretary General of OIEC met with the representatives of the commission of the Archdiocese of Singapore for Catholic Schools (ACCS) which will soon become a new member of OIEC.
From 4-7 September 2022 the NCEC (National Catholic Education Commission) held the National Catholic Education Conference 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. The 1400 attendees enjoyed an event full of energy and dynamism. The NCEC represents the catholic schools in Australia which correspond to 60% of the schools in the country or 770,000 pupils in more than 2,000 schools.
On 19 August 2022 took place at Louvain la Neuve in Belgium the Summer University of the Segec (the General Secretariat of Catholic Education in the French-speaking part of Belgium). During this event, the SeGec presented its new educational project “MISSION OF THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL”.
The Secretary General of the CEEC (the regional secretariat of the OIEC for Europe), Guy Selderslagh, who took office in 2015 following Etienne Verack, retired on 30 June 2022. On behalf of the OIEC, we take this opportunity to thank him very warmly and friendly for all of his work within the CEEC. With him, working relations between the OIEC…
From 5-10 July 2022 the Secretary General of OIEC paid a visit to the SGEC-L, the Lebanese member of OIEC. There he noted that despite an extremely severe crisis in Lebanon, comparable to the effects of a war, the resilient Catholic schools are courageously continuing their work. In particular the teachers of Catholic schools are making enormous sacrifices to keep…
On May 27 and 28, 2022 took place in Mexico City the Congress of the CIEC (Confederación Interamericana de Educación Católica) which represents the OIEC region of the Americas.
On May 12, 2022 took place in Lviv (Ukraine) a webinar organized by OIEC and the European representation of Catholic schools CEEC and the secretariat of Ukraine Catholic Schools. Participants discussed the topic “Ukrainian Catholic Schools in the drama of war”.
The OIEC Secretary General represented the OIEC during the NCEA (National Catholic Education Association) Convention in New Orleans/ Louisiana (USA) on 17-19 April 2022.