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Latest news > Article 03/20/2000
 
Special panel on women's education will precede the World Education Forum
 
  The nine high-population countries (E-9) and UNESCO organize a panel on the theme "Women as Educators and Women's Education" on 25 April 2000 at 5 p.m. Building on a recent joint E-9 project on the same subjet, the objective of this panel is to address the issue on the occasion of the World Education Forum, by bringing to the fore the most recent assessment figures in Education for All and the place occupied by women in basic education.
 

   Panellists will be the following:
Mrs Sofialeticia Morales, Director-General, International Cooperation, Ministry of Education, Mexico;
 Mrs Shaheen Uttiquur Rahman, Minister for Literacy, Province of Punjab, Pakistan;
Mr Anil Bordia, Former Union Minister of Education, India;
Mrs Kasama Varavorm, Director-General of Non-Formal Education, Ministry of Education, Thailand;
Mr Remi S. Lange, University of Ibadan, Nigeria;
A personality from Senegal, (to be identified).
Mme Constance Ysaï, Minister for the Promotion of women, Abidjan, Ivory Cost.

 
  Mrs Sofialeticia Morales from Mexico will introduce the subject. She will make a ten-minute PowerPoint presentation of her findings, based on nine country studies. Mrs Morales will be acting as the chairperson and will give the floor to each panellist for ten minutes to reflect on the PowerPoint presentation and to refer to experiences in his/her home country. Then, the floor will be given to the audience, preferably to other E-9 countries initially and then the general audience.
 
   Venue: Room B 12 in the Hotel Meridien-President Conference Centre, Dakar, Senegal
 
  Languages: English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese
 
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