One Student at a Time Book Launch
Spoke at the book launch of 'One Student at a Time: Leading the Global Education movement' at the Harvard Graduate School of Education AskWith Forum. Spoke on work currently being conducted with the SABER Service Delivery Survey in Laos and more generally about the World Bank. Spoke on many general themes of education, as well as on how current students and graduates can move forward in the international education space.
Quoted on the HGSE News website:
Offering advice to current HGSE students who may be interested in working for major global organizations, Myra Khan, Ed.M.’15, education consultant at the World Bank, said, “The number one thing to do is network. It’s important to network without an aim or goal and get to know people, their interests and their projections. It’s a mixture of hard work, perseverance, and ‘luck’, which comes in the form of networking.”
Quoted in the Harvard Gazette:
Myra Khan, Ed.M. ’15, works at the World Bank as a consultant on education in countries such as Guinea-Bissau, Kosovo, Serbia, Libya, and the Philippines, a job that she wanted but that has plenty of challenges. “The main thing I learned was to remember constantly that the reason we are all in this work is for children,” she wrote in her essay. “Working at big, bureaucratic organizations will sometimes make you forget that.”
Event coverage:
- Event publicity at Harvard
- Link to the full event write up on the HGSE website
- Link to full coverage by the Harvard Gazette
- Buy the book from Amazon!
And, you can watch whole 2-hour discussion below: