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Autres événements
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November 2009 Denver,
USA
EDUCAUSE provides a forum to exchange experiences and foster networking
in ICT innovation for higher education and research.
http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=399&bhcp=1
12-13 November Dublin,
Ireland
The European Association of Service Providers for Persons with
Disabilities (EASPD) is organising an International Conference,
Salamanca - 15 years on Inclusion - A School for All, in the aim to
create a new European Network of like-minded experts and to produce a
European Statement and Plan of Action.
Contact: Goedele Avau at goedele.avau@easpd.eu
16-18 November 2009 Doha,
Qatar
The Qatar Foundation of Education, Science and Community Development is
launching its first World Innovation Summit on Education to reinforce
partnerships in achieving sustainable development. This event plans has
dual mission, serving as platform for networking and exchange and to
present WISE Awards to honour global scale-cutting innovation in
education.
http://www.wise-qatar.org/
15-17 November, 2009
Hangzhou, China
The 13th UNESCO-APEID International Conference on ICT Transforming
Education is being organised in cooperation with the World Bank and the
Korea Education and Research Information Service High Level Seminar on
ICT in Education. The global theme of this forum is to share
experiences of ICT innovation in reaching the most marginalised and
ensuring quality education.
Deadline for paper abstracts: 1 August, 2009
http://www.unescobkk.org/education/apeid/apeid-international-conference/13-th-apeid-international-conference/
16-18 November 2009,
Madrid, Spain
Organised by the International Association of Technology, Education and
Development (IATED), the International Conference on Education,
Research and Innovation is accepting abstracts for papers until July
2009. Key topics include HE and internationalisation and globalisation;
e-learning and virtual learning; new technologies and methodologies
applied in education and research; and experiences in
university-industry cooperation.
http://www.iated.org/iceri2009/announcement
1-4 December, 2009
Belém, Brazil
The new date for the 6th International Conference on Adult Education,
COFINTEA VI, has been officially set, retaining the same programme and
location. All invitations issued for the postponed conference in May
will be honoured yet should be confirmed.
http://www.unesco.org/en/confinteavi/
25 April - 2 May 2010
Financing for Education has been selected for the 2010 Global Action
Week. Working closely with the 1-Goal – Education For All initiative,
the Action Week will also serve as a springboard for the FIFA World Cup
who has become an important partner in 1-Goal.
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EFAInfo
Database launched
for Asia and Pacific policy-makers
UNICEF and UNESCO launched EFAInfo to assist policy-makers,
practitioners and other stakeholders in Asia and Pacific to better
identify populations who don’t have access to education and why. It
provides data on these groups to allow for better analysis, policy
design and planning.
http://www.devinfo.info/efainfo/
Launch of UNICEF website
on Education in Emergencies and Post-Crisis Transition
To keep abreast of the latest news and information on the work being
down to ensure quality education in emergency and post-crisis regions,
UNICEF has developed a website, Back on Track, to raise awareness and
promote work being conducted. It includes stories, photo essays and
podcasts from participating countries and an interactive blog. For free
registration, send your name, position and e-mail address to Elizabeth
Njinga at enjinga@unicef.org
Launch of 1Goal
The 1Goal campaign was launched by Queen Rania and Gary Lineker on 21st
August at Wimbledon Stadium to galvanise support through the FIFA and
international footballers’ participation to raise awareness and to end
poverty through education for all.
http://www.join1goal.org/
WCHED+10 Declaration recognizes higher
education’s role in reaching EFA/MDGs
In the final communiqué of the UNESCO World
Conference on Higher
Education+10, it was expressed that higher education and research
indeed does contribute to achieving sustainable development in all
sectors of society and called upon the necessity to continue supporting
higher education despite the global financial crisis.
http://www.unesco.org/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/ED/pdf/WCHE_2009/FINAL%20COMMUNIQUE%20WCHE%202009.pdf
G8 supports International
Task Force on Teachers for EFA
In the G8 final report, participants welcome the recent creation of
this International Task Force to address the chronic teacher gap which
puts at risk achieving EFA and related MDGs. The Secretariat will be
housed at UNESCO, yet retaining an independent status.
http://www.unesco.org/en/efa-international-coordination/international-cooperation/task-force-on-teachers/
Calls for World Aware
Education Awards
The North-South Centre, supported by the Council of Europe, is seeking
proposals for the 2009 World Aware Education campaign to honour
initiatives in developing multi-partnerships to promote global
education in schools and youth organisations.
Deadline is 10 September 2009
Contact: Miguel SILVA miguel.silva@coe.int
New and Expanded EFA-Fast
Track Initiative Board of Directors
To be more inclusive and representative of developing partner
countries, donor countries, intergovernmental organisations and civil
society organisations, the EFA-FTI has expanded its Board of Directors
which now include seats from Burkina Faso, Moldova, Guyana and
Mozambique.
New regional
coalition: Arab Campaign for Education For All
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) has
announced that they will be setting up a new regional coalition to
target initiatives in Arab countries. The new secretariat will for the
Arab Campaign for Education For All (ACEA) be located in Yemen and aims
to support national coalitions as well raising awareness of Arab
concerns at the international level.
17CCEM Outcomes: Calls to look beyond EFA
During the 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education
Ministries, progress in EFA and related MDGs was reviewed, noting many
smaller countries had already achieved universal primary education and
gender parity while one-third of Commonwealth countries have yet
reached either goal. Ministries went on to emphasise the need to look
beyond these goals and approved further studies to set up a new higher
education agency to promote university development.
Vice-Chancellors displeased with 17CCEM Outcomes
The 17CCEM signalled the first year that rectors
convened to discuss higher education issues and their role in
(education) development. Yet rectors walked away displeased over the
CCEM Declaration, stating it overlooked the contribution that higher
education should and must play in achieving MDGs.
Calls to join CGE committee on Inclusive education
In response to growing concerns that education is
not reaching disadvantaged children and who are increasingly being
marginalised, the Global Campaign for Education has created a thematic
group to foster and support inclusive education. Interested parties who
would like to participate, send an email to:
kjersti@campaignforeducation.org
Global Monitoring Report Editorial Board transformed into Advisory Board
To better reflect the importance of its work which
has been instrumental in shaping UNESCO policies and strategies in its
EFA agenda, the Editorial Board of the Global Monitoring Report has
been transformed into an Advisory Board.
Calls for Tech Awards
As part of the 2010 Tech Awards, nominations for the
Microsoft Education Award are now being accepted. A US 50,000 prize
will honour individuals, non-profit organisations or for-profit
businesses who have applied technology to education development.
Submission deadline is March 10th, 2010..
http://www.techawards.org/
Results of2010 GMR Consultation are available
Two documents are available summarising the feedback
to the online consultation on the 2010 GMR, Reaching and teaching the
most marginalised, and survey results from the English-French
questionnaire sent out to NGOs worldwide.
http://www.unesco.org/en/efareport/reports/2010-marginalization/consultation/
New
UNESCO Chair in
Children, Youth and Civic Engagement inaugurated at the Child and
Family Research Centre, National University of Ireland
Under the UNESCO Higher Education cooperation programme, University
Twinning and Networking, (UNITWIN), this Chair aims to promote civic
engagement and leadership skills among young people through research,
training and dissemination activities. It will also establish a
programme for research and doctoral fellows, and for youth interns from
the partner countries. It will encourage the sharing of community-based
teaching materials and practice tools among international university
partners and non-governmental organizations for children and youth
working on civic engagement programmes in developing countries and
states in transition. Initial partners include Bulgaria, Lithuania and
Zambia.
http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41557&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Clearinghouse for best
practices in literacy and numeracy launched
An online platform, Effective Practices Database, will store selected
programmes in adult literacy and numeracy worldwide and provide a forum
for sharing innovative programmes. The site is administered by the
UNESCO Institute on Lifelong Learning. In English and French.
http://www.unesco.org/uil/litbase/?menu=1
Right
to Education issues calls for
academic papers
Under its revamped website, the Right to Education organisation has
issued a call for published and unpublished papers to develop its new
section, Students and Academics. Submissions should also include 10-15
keywords and a 100-200 abstract.
Contact Maria Ron Balsera at Maria.RonBalsera@actionaid.org
Or send papers directly to
info@right-to-education.org
Updated Internet sites on
gender equality: Wikigender and OECD Social Institutions & Gender
Index
These two web tools highlight and measure the impact that social
institutions have on gender equality, by gathering information and
identifying indicators on the situation of women and men throughout the
world. The overt and hidden causes of discrimination are tracked in 102
developing countries.
http://www.wikigender.org/
http://genderindex.org/
Launch
of Child
Development Index Website
Save the Children has launched a website to monitor and evaluate
worldwide governments’ degree of involvement in primary education,
child health and child nutrition.
Visit website: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/7129.htm
Strategy laid out for
second half of UN Literacy Decade
Convening experts from government, international organisations, CSO and
the private sector, a 3-day High-Level Symposium was by UNESCO to set
out a strategy for the second half of the UN Literacy Decade, from now
to 2012. It identified three major axes: mobilisation of stronger
political commitment to literacy, reinforcement of effective programme
delivery, and harnessing new resources for literacy.
The
2010 Global Monitoring
Report will take up the theme of marginalisation, examining how
different social, economic and political factors hinder access to
education, teaching and learning and what policies and strategies break
this exclusion cycle. In preparation of the 2010 Report, contributions
on this theme can be submitted by mid-November.
Contact Anna Haas a.haas@unesco.org
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Education in Emergencies in South Asia:
Reducing the Risks Facing Vulnerable Children
Centre for International Education and Research
(CIER), School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK; UNICEF
Regional Office for South Asia
UNICEF – ROSA, Kathmandu, Nepal
(2009 – 125 pages - ISBN 978-99946-896-9-9)
This research study looks at various populations groups whose education
is most vulnerable during emergencies. By distinguishing each group
differently, instead of sweeping them under the umbrella term of a
single vulnerable group, research draws from eight country studies to
provide a synthesis of practical strategies. Targeted for policy-makers
and field workers, it provides a conceptual approach for all phases in
emergency situations. Country studies included are Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
http://www.ineesite.org/uploads/documents/store/Education%20in%20emergencies%20in%20south%20asia,%20Vulnerability%20study.pdf
Guidelines for Capacity
Development in the Education Sector within the Education For All - Fast
Track Framework
Ed. Caprio, Temby
February 2009 - Pages 39
Drawing heavily from work carried out by the OECD Development
Assistance Committee and other international donor and cooperation
agencies, these guidelines aims to support education policy-makers to
develop capacity by applying a participatory approach with other
regional, national and local EFA stakeholders:
Five steps have been identified and defined:
Step 1: set the stage for participatory dialogue around a capacity
development strategy
Step 2: understand and build on the country context for an effective
education strategy
Step 3: capacity gap analysis
Step 4: strategy designing
Step 5: define a monitoring/evaluation mechanism
http://www2.gtz.de/dokumente/bib/gtz2008-0355en-cd-education-guideline.pdf
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2009
United Nations (2009 – 56 pages - ISBN:
978-92-1-101196-8)
In light of the results from the latest MDGs Report which reveal that
the MDGs will not be achieved, UN Secretary-General warns of the
slowdown in moving forward. The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
highlighted the impact that the global financial crisis is having, and
could continue impact progress made, unless greater effort is exerted.
Nonetheless, the Report revealed that considerable steps have been in
the goal of providing universal primary education and the target of
access to safe drinking water.
English version:
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202009%20ENG.pdf
French version:
http://www.un.org/french/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG%20Report%202009%20FR.pdf
Also available in Arab, Chinese, Russian and Spanish
EFA Politics, Policies,
and Progress Research Monograph 13
Angela W. Little / Create Pathways to Access (CREATE)
(2008 – 95 pages)
Development agencies regularly appeal to political will as a key
requirement for progress on EFA. But what is political will? This
research paper provides a literature review on policy formulation and
implementation to inform the conceptual framework and methods of cases
studies conducted under the larger research project, entitled Create
Pathways to Access. The monograph covers:
- educational policy, educational innovation and educational
implementation in developed and developing countries over the past half
century;
- political science on public policy and development;
- EFA policy and progress, capturing political dimension; and
- the history of compulsory education in the West, for possible lessons
learned, the conceptual frameworks and methods that have been employed.
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/about/documents/PTA13.pdf
La scolarisation primaire universelle en
Afrique : le défi enseignant
UNESCO-BREDA (2009 – 198 pages - ISBN 978-92-9091-098-5)
Préparé par le Pôle de Dakar, l’analyse sectorielle
en éducation, cette étude est d’apporter des
clarifications autour le débat urgent sur la question
enseignante en Afrique. L’objet de cet ouvrage est fondé sur les
diagnostics sectoriels, plutôt que une collecte
systématique des données, et se divisé en cinq
parties :
Chapitre1 : La demande d’éducation et les besoins des enseignants
Chapitre 2 : Rémunération des enseignants et extension de
la scolarisation : une relation centrale
Chapitre 3 : Les nouveaux enseignants et les progrès de la
scolarisation
Chapitre 4 : Quels enseignants pour quels apprentissages ?
Chapitre 5 : Vers une vision d’ensemble de la question enseignante
Télécharger le document complet
http://www.poledakar.org/IMG/pdf/POL-%20Brochure%20FRBD.pdf
SciDev.Net
examines the role of higher education in development
In an editorial, the role of higher education in achieving MDGs is
explored as donor agencies are beginning to reinvest more in higher
education after a decade-long absence.
http://www.scidev.net/en/science-and-innovation-policy/aid-for-higher-education/
editorials/what-role-for-higher-education-in-development-.html#
Education Today: The OECD
Perspective
(2009 – 96 pages - ISBN: 9789264059955)
The OECD published its perspective on the state on education today, to
provide an international overview on the trends touching different
education sectors, from early childhood to higher education to adult
education and lifelong learning, including to pressing issues on
academic achievement, equity and innovation. This study covers the
period since the Directorate of Education was created within OECD, from
2002 to today. French version to follow.
A free-for read only version is available online:
http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/9609021E.PDF
Accelerating MDGs with EFA
In the second issue of MDG Insights Nicolas Burnett,
Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO, discusses the
importance and interdependence of achieving Education For All goals and
MDGs.
http://www.mdg-gateway.org/MDG-Insights/Feb/Issue02.pdf
EFA FTI Annual
Report 2008: The Road to
2015: Reaching the education goals
(2008 – 90 pages)
This report demonstrates considerable progress has been achieved in
universal primary education with 15 million more children in Africa
being enrolled over the past five years. It goes on to examine how to
provide quality education for the most disadvantaged. The launching of
the report coincided with the announcement that new funding will be
granted to Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, The Gambia, Timor
Leste and Zambia to support their programs to reach universal primary
education.
Download full report
http://www.education-fast-track.org/library/Annual_Report_2008_EFA_FTI.pdf
The Right to Education: Monitoring
standard-setting instruments of UNESCO is a follow up document
that details UNESCO’s Executive Board decisions and strategies to
monitor countries in seven priority recommendations in education,
including EFA. Prepared by the UNESCO Section for the Promotion of
Rights and Values in Education, Division for the Promotion of Basic
Education, this 32-page document highlights the recommendations in:
• Discrimination in Education (1960)
• Status of Teachers (1966)
• Education for International Understanding, Cooperation
and Peace, and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms (1974)
• Development of Adult Education (1976)
• Recognition of Studies and Qualifications in Higher
Education (1993
• Status of Higher-Education Teaching Personnel (1997)
• Technical and Vocational Education (2001)
Download publication: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001611/161161e.pdf
A 4-page brochure is also available: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001612/161200E.pdf
Beatriz Pont, Deborah Nusche and Hunter Moorman, Improving
School Leadership, Volume 1: Policy and Practice (2008 –
195 pages - ISBN: 9789264044678)
Beatriz Pont, Deborah Nusche and David Hopkins, Eds. Improving School
Leadership, Volume 2: Case Studies on System Leadership (2008 –
275 pages - ISBN: 9789264033085 1)
In light of the inherent linkage between good teachers and improved
learning outcomes, global initiatives have focused on initiatives to
improve teacher professional training and teachers’ qualifications.
However governments must equally tackle issues and challenges
surrounding effective school governance which have often been
overshadowed. Based on a worldwide OECD study, this two-volume
publication identifies four policy options for governments to develop
and train current and future school leaders (Volume 1) and illustrates
innovative policies implemented in Australia, Austria, Belgium
(Flanders), Finland and the United Kingdom (England) (Volume 2).
Executive summaries are available in English, French, Spanish and
German: http://www.oecd.org/document/18/0,3343,en_2649_39263231_41165970_1_1_1_1,00.html
Eds. Bennall, P.,
Akyeampong, P., “Teacher Motivation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South
Asia”, Series: Reaching the Issues N° 57(2007 – 114 pages), DFID:
London
Despite considerable challenges that many African and South Asian
countries were facing in providing education for all, several countries
have overcome them. Yet, another crisis is poised to strike regarding
teachers and their poor professional conditions that have left so many
disenchanted and disaffected, thus jeopardising the quality of
education and the progress made. An international research project,
co-led by the Institute of Education at the University of London,
examined potential strategic means to motivate teachers. Study is
downloadable at:
http://www.oecd.org/document/58/0,3343,en_2649_35845581_41208186_1_1_1_1,00.html
Working Paper to advocate
a Global Education Fund
The Centre for Universal Education, housed within
the American
think tank, Council on Foreign Relations, is calling for the creation
of a Global Education Fund, directly addressing the pursuit of EFA
Goals, and which should be built on the strengths of the existing Fast
Track Initiative and to overcome its weaknesses. This initiative has
already received the support from the U.S.A. Secretary of State.
Download the working document
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/CUE_WorkingPaper_1.pdf
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