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July 2008

IJELP Graduation - tomorrow
2008-07-28 09:56:10
After the lessons led by Alina Gutauskiene, Wojciech Zmudzinski SJ, Artur Kolodziejczyk SJ and Thomas Roach SJ, participants of the International Jesuit Education Leadership Program are working now with Eric Bloemkolk from Socires Foundation (Holland). The main topic is the ADVOCACY FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE. Mister Bloemkolk is a Coordinator of Central and Eastern European Program of the Foundation and currently works on educational change in Ukraine. Tomorrow all IJELP students will receive diplomas signed by Thomas Roach SJ, the Secretary of the Society of Jesus for Education, and certificates issued by the Arrupe Center.

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IJELP session 2008 in Falenica
2008-07-12 11:23:59
The second session of International Jesuit Education Leadership Program started in Warsaw-Falenica. From 10 to 11 of July, Alina Gutauskiene from Lithuania is presenting one of the debating methods of teaching.

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IJELP alumnus became a president of five schools in Lebanon
2008-07-12 11:04:31
MarekCieslik.jpgOn the turn of June and July 2008, Marek Cieślik SJ (in the photo) visited Gdynia. This year he is taking up the position of the headmaster of five schools in the Beka Valley (around 30 km from the capital city of Liban) as well as he will be having lectures in the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut. It is our honor that one of the graduates of our 2-years' preparation course for future headmasters will be in charge of such a responsible assignment and what is more in a place where so few wants to go. Around 200 people has finished our IJELP course so far. They represent such countries like Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Italy, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Malta, Croatia and Albania. Most of them is working on a managerial positions in education and is in charge of educational projects in the non-governmental organizations. The second session of another edition of the program has started this month in Warsaw-Falenica. Among the trainers there are representatives of Lithuania, USA, Netherlands and Poland. When the 20-days session is finished, we will start the recruitment for the next 2009/2010 edition. We accept applications only through the agency of the Jesuit delegates for education. The applications can be directly send for the Arrupe Center adress from the north and central Polnd as well as from Belarus and Ukraine.
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