Dates: 14 – 17 November 2023

Location: National University of Samoa, Apia, Samoa

Theme: Quality Education for Sustainable Futures

Quality education for a sustainable future is an important global goal due to rapid global educational, economic, social and cultural changes affecting all nations today. Education in developing and Third World countries is vulnerable due to limited human and physical resources.

As present and future educators, we acknowledge that education is a powerful avenue to overcome economic, political, social, cultural and educational hardship. To be educated is to be empowered with the skills, knowledge and wisdom to make choices so that individuals, families, nations and the world can sustainably experience happiness and enrichment and develop solutions to today’s societal issues.

Collaboration and sharing knowledge for sustainable solutions helps educators learn from each other, and work towards solutions to common problems. The 51st Annual Conference of the Oceania Comparative and International Education Society (OCIES), to be hosted by the National University of Samoa (NUS) in November 2023, will bring together keynote speakers, participants, and collaborators from all over the world to dialogue on current and future educational research and perspectives to guide quality and sustainable education for the future.

The dream for many individuals is for children to acquire global knowledge as security for their future. The question that many of us ask, is why is education an important factor in our lives? If we tend to respond from a Samoan perspective based on missionary educational influence, then we will have to say that we have seen education as a productive and effective invention towards creating a world for sustainable lives. When missionaries arrived in Samoa in 1830, they introduced Samoans to basic formal types of education, such as basic English speaking and writing, and simple mathematical applications (Tuia, 2013; Tuia, 2019; Esera, Fa’avae & Tuia, 2021).

Education today in Oceania is vulnerable and it is our collective responsibility to ensure that we provide quality education for all. Ongoing challenges with the quality of education represents issues with which many countries grapple regardless of their level of national income or development status. One of the biggest questions that academics are asking today is how to plan for and implement quality education for future generations. Comparative dialogue between nations advances the dialogue on this question.

The 51st Annual Conference of OCIES, in collaboration with the National University of Samoa, is our platform for bringing together researchers and educators from all over the globe to share, collaborate and propose solutions to drive quality education for a sustainable future.

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 Call for ABSTRACTS /  SESSION PROPOSALS

OCIES 2023 invites abstracts/session proposals that connect to the overall theme in either general or specific terms and align their abstracts/ session proposals within one of the following sub-themes.

1. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education
2. Values and Relationality in Education
3. Climate Change and Sustainable Development
4. TVET and Youth Education
5. Teachers’ Voices, Perspectives and Motivation

Proposals can be submitted in the form of the following:

National University of Samoa

Webpage: https://nus.edu.ws/

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Early Bird Deadline: 16 August 2023

Regular Deadline: 07 October 2023

Registration Fees for International Delegates
[*costs are in Australian Dollars – AUD]

INTERNATIONAL EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION
Please pay by 16 August 2023
 Member $350.00
 Unwaged member $200.00
 Student member $150.00
 Non-Member $450.00
 Student non-members $200.00
 Unwaged non-member $250.00
 LIC* member $200.00
 LIC non-member $250.00
 LIC student member $100.00
 LIC student non-member $120.00

INTERNATIONAL STANDARD REGISTRATION
Please pay by 7 October 2023

 Member standard $450.00
 Unwaged member $300.00
 Student member $200.00
 Non-Member $500.00
 Student non-member $250.00
 Unwaged non-member $350.00
 LIC member $250.00
 LIC non-member $300.00
 LIC student member $150.00
 LIC student non-member $170.00

*LIC: Low income country

Conference fees cover:

1. Welcoming Ava ceremony/Closing ceremony
2. Welcome cocktails
3. Conference Dinner
4. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea for three days
5. Conference bag, stationeries & programme
6. Access to all conference sessions
7. Cultural entertainment by FoE NUS students

KEY DATES

May 15, 2023 

• International early-bird registration opens
• Local registration opens
• Call opens for abstracts/session proposals

July 31, 2023 

• Deadline for abstracts/ session proposals
• Abstracts/session proposals will be reviewed as they come in, with notification of acceptance or otherwise within two weeks

August 11, 2023 

Preliminary conference programme available

August 16, 2023 

International early-bird registration closes

August 17, 2023 

International standard registration begins

October 7, 2023 

International standard registration ends

October 15, 2023 

Final conference programme available

November 14-17, 2023

51st Conference of OCIES
National University of Samoa, SAMOA

Conference enquiries can be sent to 2023ociesconferencesamoa@nus.edu.ws