The UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education UNITWIN partner, the Department of Lifelong Learning at the University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India organised a global webfest in cooperation with the Chair. It highlights the relevance for Adult Education and Lifelong Education in general of India's arguably greatest subaltern intellectual, policy maker and educator: Dr B. R. Ambedkar. A dhalit who studied in India, New York (Columbia University. PhD) and London (law and called to the bar) he struggled and taught, as well as legislated for the dismantling of the caste system. Prof. Peter Mayo and Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino, former University of Malta Pro-Rector, addressed the meeting in its opening session.

The event was concluded by Malta's representative from the Commission to UNESCO, Dr Ray Bondin. Recordings from the above webfest can be accessed through the above link which leads to the UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education website.

It is available as first item on the seminar/ talks recording web page, together with recordings of other webfests and seminar/ conference presentations.