In early November, Jesuit Mission Australia held a webinar about their partnership with Xavier Learning Community (XLC), a Jesuit-run tertiary institution in Chiang Rai, Thailand that is driving education among ethnic minorities in the north. The webinar welcomed special guests, Fr Augustinus Pitoyo SJ, Vice … Continued
Xavier Learning Community (XLC), the Jesuit higher education institution in Chiang Rai, Thailand, has started a vegetable garden in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The garden has helped provide staff and students with a healthy source of food. XLC student … Continued
For all the damage it has done, the pandemic has also spurred the creation of many innovations and ideas. Who would have thought that from Papua, which is long behind in many aspects of life, could come an initiative that … Continued
In October 2019, I was asked to visit the works of Fe y Alegría (FyA) in Guatemala to prepare me for the international meeting in El Salvador. During that visit, I had the privilege of seeing several Fe y Alegría … Continued
The world is facing a “cannonball” experience caused by Covid-19. The event of 20 February involving a violation of quarantine protocols caused the virus to spread in Cambodia and create some panic. In a little over four months the number … Continued
Leaders and educators from our Jesuit global network of schools congregated online for the second Jesuit education (JESEDU) Global Colloquium hosted by the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP). The first gathering was held in Boston College, USA nine years … Continued
As part of its “East Meets West” talk series, The Beijing Center (TBC) hosted a virtual conversation with Loyola Marymount University in California, Ateneo de Davao University in southern Philippines, and Five Loaves and Two Fish, a Beijing-based organisation supporting … Continued
Jesuit Communications Australia (Jescom) has been awarded a Gold Quill Award by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) for its Australian Catholics outreach campaign to the Catholic education sector in over the past two years – and in particular during periods … Continued
In the last year, educators everywhere found themselves involved in an unforeseen global teaching experiment. As a result of the pandemic, teachers had to quickly learn how to pivot to online teaching. Few of our teachers had been prepared for … Continued
The international gathering of Jesuit schools dubbed, II COLLOQUIUM JESEDU-Global2021, will be held as a purely online event from 28 June to 2 July. It replaces the II COLLOQUIUM JESEDU-Jogjakarta2020, originally intended last year. Centred on the theme, “The Global … Continued