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Hey dears,

I want to share one great thing that happened to me today.

I was invited to one press conference of one education program that is new in Latvia and will be launched in March. It is supported by Lattelecom, Hansa banka, Fontes and other companies. The aim of it is to raise teachers prestige and to make changes in the education system in Latvia. If the government is not doind any drastic change then corporates decided to take it and make some change

The name of the prgram is Iespejamaa misija - Mission possible and the idea - to select 20 students that will be prepared and educated during the summer and will work in schools for 2 years as teachers but the innovative ones and develop their skills as leaders, also will be the role models for the pupils. They will have the courses on leadership provided, on teaching, they will have also the practive in the company during the summer between those 2 years to make them more interesting for the pupils and not to restrict them from gettign the experience in the field they wanna work after. Maybe some of them will go to the comoanies to work afterwards, maybe will stay in schools. They will be getting scholarship during 2 years.

It is amazing.

the webpage if the program is

http://www.iespejamamisija.lv/lv/misija/

Latvia will be the 4th country in the world running such a programm. It is for 13 years in USA, for 4 years in Great Britain " Teachfirst". U can check it, also very very cool.

The guy from Great Britain who is responsible for the program named 8 competencies that are the basis for the selection of 300 program participants - the teachers - out of 2000.

Those are:
Resilence
Humility, Respect and Empathy
Knowledge
Leadership
Self evaluation
Problem solving
Interaction
Planning and Organizing


In Estonia for one year " NOOREDKOOLI". And guess what - 2 of the Estonian organization team were - AIESEC alumni.

There was the time for asking the questions after the presentation of the program and I asked one and at the beginning I introduced myself and 2 persons turned their heads.

After they came and said that they were in AIESEC in Estonia for 6 years. They were in MC in international MC in Singapore and in other positions.

Also they were telling that they promoted AIESEC as a very good cooperation for this program in Latvia

I was amazed. It was nice.

So, if you are intersted in education issue, education changes in Latvia - go ahead.

I am really happy about such a step taken by the corporate sector. There was the respresentative from the ministry of Education and she was trying to hide, but she was so much conservative and was nice to see how the leaders of Latvia business - Hansa banka and Lattelecom were trying to nicely fight against her.

Have a nice day and I am happy that AIESEC is also bringing value to the change and some new sights in the pupils lifes - YW3, Informal age in Valmiera that is coming, Ethnical diversity

Nice