COVID-19 causes international exchanges to end early, but global learning grows stronger virtually
AFS helps thousands of students continue building global competence using a new online education platform Over 5,800 high school students…
Global Competence
OECD’s PISA Global Competence Assessment Results to be announced at the AFS Global Conference
The 2020 AFS Global Conference is set to host the worldwide launch of the results of the Programme for International…
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I. Some students learn, some don’t: Churchill, R. (1958). The Student Abroad. The Antioch Review. Vol 18, #4, pp.447-454. Kinginger,…
New Global Competence in Teacher Education Project Launches with an Erasmus+ Grant
AFS Intercultural Programs (AFS) and the European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) together with the University of Hull and four…
Study abroad must be supported by mentoring, another study confirms
A new study from Purdue University confirms that university students who received group mentoring through the AFS Global Competence Certificate…
Are we there yet? The State of Global Competence Education
2019 AFS Global Conference on Active Global Citizenship—and How to Educate for It (9-11 October 2019 in Montreal, Canada) featured…
Growing a global competence coalition at the 2019 AFS Global Conference
What will it take to provide young changemakers with the global skills they need to make the world a better…
AFS in Action | AFS Now newsletter (June 2019)
AFS One Classroom Initiative conducted virtual exchanges of schools in China with schools in Brazil and Czech Republic throughout June.…
Learning to Live Together Must Become a 21st Century Educational Right
“Developing real solutions to the world’s interlinked problems—to our problems—depends on everyone working together at some fundamental levels. Given these…