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As most of you know, we started toire. Tout a commencé en 1949, ici même, au Palais des Nations in 1949 as UN Special right here, at the Palais des Nations à Genève, avec la parution du premier UN Special. Votre men‑ in Geneva. We are now called UN Today, but we have the suel est aujourd'hui devenu UN Today, mais la motivation initiale same motivation of our founders : to share information n'a pas changé : relier et informer les membres du personnel de amongst United Nations staff members and to also create l'ONU et contribuer à construire la mémoire institutionnelle de an important piece of institutional memory at UNOG. l'UNOG. Every month the Editorial Board comes together to plan the Le comité de rédaction qui se réunit chaque mois a décidé edition ahead. When we did it for the June edition, we de- à l'unanimité d'axer l'édition du mois de juin sur l'éducation cided unanimously to focus on education in Geneva. It is a à Genève. Ce sujet est très important pour les fonctionnaires top priority for staff members with children and remains an qui ont des enfants, et ceux d'entre nous qui se tournent vers expensive endeavour if we enrol our kids in private schools les écoles privées de cette ville savent bien l'enjeu financier que in this city. We have to remember that the first international cela représente. Souvenons‑nous que la première école interna‑ school in the world was created here by our precursors, tionale au monde a été créée ici même, par nos prédécesseurs the staff members of the League of Nations, for the same de la Société des Nations, qui comme nous étaient conscients de reason we face today : international children require inter- l'impor tance qu'il y a, pour des enfants internationaux, à recevoir national education. In that light, we offer you several articles une éducation internationale. Ce dossier que, nous l'espérons, about education in Geneva, including interviews with four vous trouverez intéressant et utile, comprend entre autres des in‑ of the most prestigious international schools in this city. We terviews de représentants de quatre des plus prestigieuses écoles hope you find this coverage interesting and helpful. internationales de Genève. In addition, we have also articles on Consultants, the forgotten Il sera en outre question des consultants, ces travailleurs de workforce at the UN, and on Greycells, the association of l'ombre de l'ONU, et de Greycells, une association d'anciens former International Civil Servants for Development. Other fonctionnaires internationaux pour le développement. Vous topics include interviews with Mr. Fabrizio Hochschild- pourrez également lire les interviews de M. Fabrizio Hochschild‑ Drummond, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Drummond, Conseiller spécial du Secrétaire général pour les pré‑ the Preparations for the Commemoration of the United paratifs de la commémoration du 75e anniversaire des Nations Nations 75th Anniversary and with maestro Michelangelo Unies, et du maestro Michelangelo Pistoletto, artiste internationa‑ Pistoletto, the world-renowned artist, creator of the Rebirth lement reconnu et créateur de la sculpture du Palais des Nations sculpture at the Palais des Nations. intitulée « Rebirth ». Enjoy your magazine ! Bonne lecture de votre magazine ! facebook.com/UNTodayMagazine instagram.com/untoday_magazine twitter.com/un_today 3 IMPRESSUM SOMMAIRE / TABLE OF CONTENTS UN Today Éditorial / Editor’s note 3 Palais des Nations, bureau C507 Sommaire / Table of contents 4 1211 Genève 10 [email protected] [email protected] GROS PLAN SUR / FOCUS ON www.untoday.org L’enseignement à Genève / Education in Geneva Alex Mejia Education in Geneva. Today’s reality for a UN staff member 5 Rédacteur en chef / Editor-in-chief ECOLINT – École Internationale de Genève 9 Sarah Bencherif École Moser 13 Coordinatrice éditoriale / Insitut Florimont 16 Editorial Coordinator Institut International de Lancy 18 And how about putting your children into a Swiss public school ? 21 Publicité / Advertising Map of Geneva International Schools 22 PCL Presses Centrales SA University of Geneva. 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La parution de ce magazine 46 dépend uniquement du support financier de la publicité prise en charge par une régie. 28 The official magazine of the international civil servants of the United Nations at Geneva. The opinions in this magazine are those of the authors, not necessarily those of the United Nations, or its specialized agencies. The publication of this magazine relies solely on the financial support of its advertisers. 54 4 GROS PLAN SUR… / FOCUS ON… © UNSPLASH / CDC Education in Geneva Today’s reality for a UN staff memberAlex Mejia* The Education Grant allow us to provide education to our children at our duty station. So, if we need to maintain the grant as a It has been reduced a few years back, while great investment – at the individual and the cost of education in Geneva remains high. at the societal levels –, and also as a strong incentive for the best and the brightest to join the UN, why is it that sev- As every year pass by, staff members find it more and more eral UN member states in 2017 stripped it difficult to cope with increasing academic fees. This entitlement down and diminished the financial sup- does make a difference for the UN, as it ensures that the best port provided ? During that year, the professionals are recruited and retained. We should defend it UNOG Staff Coordinating Council gave a at all cost. good fight to prevent that from happen- ing, but the member states Everyone reading these lines went forward anyways, ar- would agree with Benjamin guing several illegitimate Franklin’s famous quote, pos- “An investment financial reasons. tulating that “an investment in in education always education always pays the best However, this article is not return”, and most importantly, pays the best return” about that ; it is dedicat- with the need to preserve the Benjamin Franklin ed to share insight from a UN Education Grant the way it is.