Interview of the month Global trends in student mobility Albert Motivans who heads Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics based in Montreal, talks to EduInfo about global trends in student mobility, which is explored in the Global Education Digest 2009 launched during the World Conference on Higher Education 2009. More Coming up Technical and vocational education and training and teacher education conference in Mozambique, 15-17 July The conference will focus on reform and development of technical and vocational education and training. International Seminar on Climate Change Education, France, 27-29 July How can education affect climate change? A three-day seminar will bring together 60 climate change, education and curricula development experts. First experts’ meeting for the 2010 World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education, Moscow, 29-30 July An international committee of 12 renowned early childhood experts will start preparations on 29 July for the World Conference on Early Childhood Care and Education (WCECCE). Second experts meeting on Enhancing Learning: from access to success? France, 2-4 September Despite the rise in enrolment figures, 75 million children, primarily girls, remain out of school. New dates for CONFINTEA VI, Brazil, 1-4 December The Sixth International Conference on Adult Education (CONFINTEA VI) has been rescheduled to take place in Brazil on December 1-4. Roundup Resource kit on Equivalency Programme for Asia UNESCO Bangkok is developing a regional resource kit on Equivalency Programmes (EP). 17th Conference of Commonwealth education ministers, Malaysia, 15-19 June Education stakeholders from the 53 Commonwealth countries gathered in Malaysia for the 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers from June 15 to 19. Nairobi International workshop: «Competencies for living and working in the 21st century: A capacity development toolkit for curriculum innovations in African Countries», 22-26 June The main objective of this technical workshop was to allow for the comprehensive development of a toolkit. Policy Brief on Early Childhood - Inclusion of Children with Disabilities Worldwide, there are about 650 million people with disabilities. This accounts for 10 per cent of the global population, and constitutes more than 20 per cent of the world’s poorest people.