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WGTP meets
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ADEA Executive Secretary visits World Bank
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Edinburgh meeting of experts on post-primary
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WGCOMED consults
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The Faire-Faire Strategy in Senegal: Decentralizing the
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May 24 - 27, 2005 Enghien-les-Bains, France • ADEA Steering Committee meetings May 26 - June 3, 2005 Nairobi, Kenya • Workshop on integrating databases into the web site May 29 - June 4, 2005 Gitarama, Rwanda • 5th SMASSE- WECSA Regional Conference May 30, 2005 Niamey, Niger • WGESA Steering Committee meeting May 30 - June 3, 2005 Accra, Ghana
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African International Conference on Early Childhood Development May 31 - June 2, 2005 Niamey, Niger • WGESA training workshop for Sahel countries August 3-5, 2005 Windhoek, Namibia
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Regional conference on bilingual education and the use September 2005 Addis Abeba, Ethiopia • Ministerial seminar on education for rural development in Africa |
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WGTP meets in Montreal to formalize plans for teacher training seminar and the Biennale The Working Group on the Teaching Profession (WGTP), in collaboration with the World Bank; the Inter-University Center for International Development in Education (CIPGL) based at the University of Quebec in Montreal, the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) and the African Virtual University (AVU), met at the University of Quebec on 7-8 April 2005 to formalize the partnership between the five institutions and prepare an international seminar on curricula reform for teacher training in West Africa. The consortium agreed to the following:
Ø For more information contact Virgilio Juvane, WGTP, v.juvane@commonwealth.int ADEA Executive Secretary visits World Bank During a visit to the World Bank from 13 to 17 April 2005, Executive Secretary Mamadou Ndoye met with key people from the department of human development for the African region, the education sector, the World Bank Institute, and some twenty division managers and heads of education projects in Africa.
The purpose of his visit was: to get acquainted with the new people responsible for ADEA relations at the Bank; to review the partnerships with the Bank and see how to follow up on them; and to consolidate and strengthen cooperation between the two institutions.
A number of common areas of interest were identified. These included:
The Executive Secretary’s visit allowed both institutions to confirm their wish that ties between ADEA and the World Bank be strengthened.
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Gabon, along with Mauritius and Nigeria, is one of the three countries selected to participate in the pilot phase of the peer review exercise being conducted by the Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (WGESA). From 18 to 22 April, 2005, meetings were held in Libreville to establish guidelines for the review’s implementation. Representatives of the OECD, the University of Benin and the Working Group attended. Also attending were actors in the local policy and educational management arena, as well as representative of various target groups. The Ghana Minister of Education expressed the wish for the entire education system to be included in the peer review, including higher education. Terms of reference were discussed and a short list of possible team participants prepared. The peer review timetable calls for Gabon to launch the self-evaluation phase of the assessment during June 2005, for completion in August. The international team would begin its review during September, and a preliminary report submitted during the Biennale during the first quarter of 2006, with the final version prepared immediately after. Ø For more information, contact Ibrahima Bah-Lalya, WGESA coordinator, i.bahlalya@iiep.unesco.org Edinburgh meeting of experts on post-primary education determine approach, structure and work plan of WGPPE Following establishment of an ad hoc Working Group on Post-Primary Education (WGPPE) in November 2004, the Steering Committee asked ADEA to convene an expert meeting to reflect on what approach the new Working Group should follow: holistic or specific. The meeting took place in Edinburgh on 26 April 2005, back-to-back with the Annual International Conference organized by the Centre of African Studies of the University of Edinburgh. Present were representatives of ministries of education, the Bureau of ADEA, cooperation agencies and experts in secondary education and skills development. After listening to presentations from Kenya, Norway, African non-governmental organizations (NGOs), World Bank, France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, German Cooperation (GTZ) and the UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa (BREDA), the meeting unanimously recommended adopting “a holistic, integrated approach as the guiding principle for the ad hoc Working Group on Post-Primary Education.” It was decided that the work plan should include all the following elements: advocacy, analysis and research – such as developing a statistical database on post-primary education – and capacity building to strengthen local research, improve management information systems and monitoring of reforms. The experts recommended the following activities for the first year of Working Group operation:
They also suggested a Steering Committee be established for the WGPPE, additional partners sought and a lead agency identified. Ø For more information, contact Hamidou Boukary, senior program specialist, ADEA, h.boukary@iiep.unesco.org WGCOMED consultation to help extend the Africa Education Journalism Award to non-print mediaWhat are the conceptual and practical challenges to administering media awards for audiovisual and on-line journalists in Africa? A COMED meeting discussed these questions in Cotonou on April 26 and 27 at the West Africa Newsmedia and Development Center (WANAD). The outcomes of the Consultation will help COMED develop proposals for extending the Akintola Fatoyinbo Africa Education Award to permit entries from radio journalists. The proposals will be presented to the Award’s jury when it meets later this year. Participants came from Benin, Nigeria, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, South Africa and the ADEA Secretariat.. The consultation, which was opened by Karimou Rafiatou, Minister of Primary and Secondary Education of Benin, is the first step in transferring management of the Award from the ADEA Secretariat to COMED. Ø For more information, contact Marc Pandi Bapaga, COMED consultant, comed@wanad.org WANAD Center in Contonou hosts pre-selection jury for articles submitted to Africa Education Journalism AwardMore than 600 articles have been submitted for the 2005 edition of the Akintola Fatoyinbo Africa Education Award. A pre-jury met to select the top entries to be forwarded to the final Jury meeting being held later this year in Accra, Ghana. The pre-jury is made up of one education specialist and one journalist for each language. Two new features were added to this year’s pre-jury meetings. For the first time, there was a pre-jury for Portuguese language articles. Secondly, two former winners of the Award were nominated to the pre-jury. They are Mr Moshoeshoe Monare of the Johannesburg Star, South Africa (2004 English language 1st place winner) and Mme Josette Barry of Fraternité Matin in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (2004 French language 2nd place winner). The Akintola Fatoyinbo Africa Education Award encourages African journalists to write accurate, relevant and high-quality articles on education. Ø For more information, contact Marc Pandi Bapaga, COMED Consultant, comed@wanad.org English and French-speaking sections of the WGTF Steering Committee hold first joint meeting in LondonFollowing the merger of the Francophone and Anglophone sections of the ADEA Working Group on the Teaching Profession (WGTP), a joint steering committee meeting was organized in the UK at the Commonwealth Secretariat. Permanent Secretaries of the Ministries of Education of Tanzania, Botswana, Cameroon, Mozambique, Togo, Niger and Zanzibar as well as representatives of Norway (University College), Finland (University of Oulu) and the UNESCO Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) participated as Steering Committee members. Regional coordinators of the WGTP, Quebec University at Montreal (UQAM), UNESCO and the ADEA Secretariat also attended. After a historical overview of the new structure and vision that the merger represents, WGTP presented its 2004 activity report. Discussions focussed on the planning and prioritizing of 2005 activities as approved by the ADEA Steering Committee during its last session in Kigali and on the WG’s contribution to the next ADEA Biennialb Meeting. It was agreed to concentrate on those countries participating in the ADEA Inter-Country Quality Node. At the same time, the need to improve coordination among the agencies and various ongoing initiatives was recognized. These included: support to the networking of Teacher Training Colleges in West Africa; the Irish Education Trust Fund capacity building effort and UNESCO’s initiative on Teacher Training in SSA. The SC underlined as well the importance of continuing analytical research in the field of teacher development and teacher effectiveness Ø For more information, contact Mr. Virgilio Juvane, Coordinator, WGTP, v.juvane@commonwealth.int |
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Sub-regional seminar on the dynamics and constraints of educational strategies in western Africa At the invitation of the UNESCO/BREDA office in Dakar, Senegal, the coordinator of the Working Group on Finance and education (WGFE) attended a workshop on educational strategies from 11 to 15 April, 2005. The meeting, which occurred in Bamako, was the third in a series. Representatives of Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal also attended. Discussions focussed on three topics :
Ø For more information, contact Mohamed Cherif Diarra, Coordinator, WGFE, mohamed.diarra@codesria.sn Second OAU Conference of African Ministers of Education (COMEDAF II) ADEA’s Executive Secretary attended the 2nd Conference of African Ministers of Education, held in Algiers (Algeria) on 10 and 11 April 2005. Also present were ministers, their representatives and experts from the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and NEPAD. Agencies like UNESCO, UNICEF, ADB, French Cooperation and ADEA participated as observers. The agenda covered the following four topics:
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The Faire-faire Strategy in Senegal: Decentralizing the Management of Education and Diversifying Supply Faced with dwindling resources yet increasing pressure to expand education due to run-away population growth, the Senegal minister of education responsible for literacy and national languages inaugurated the so-called “faire-faire” strategy during the 1990s. It called for meeting demand while still maintaining the quality and relevance of the instruction. This was done by decentralizing management of education and diversifying the sources of education. The book highlights both the strengths and the weaknesses of the program. It is based on a study by a team in the Ministry responsible for literacy and national languages and was carried out in the framework of ADEA’s exercise on improving the quality of education in sub-Saharan Africa. Ø Faire-Faire Strategy in Senegal: Decentralizing the Management of Education and Diversifying Supply, ADEA, May 2005. (In press) Link to the French edition. How Education is Financed in Sub-Saharan Africa The question of finances in African education normally concerns the amount of money and how it is allocated. Little attention has been given to the manner in which financing is carried out throughout the project, from design of education policy and expenditures, to planning, itemizing and preparing a budget schedule. This is the subject the book addresses: how financing of education is organized. There are five chapters: the first examines how the finance system is designed and how it is embedded in the different phases of the project; the second treats the etiology of finance problems; the third looks at the solutions; the fourth chapter highlights the difficulties of managing education, and the new perspectives offered by results-based rather than means-based approaches; the fifth examines structural solutions to the problem of financing education (privatization, decentralization and efficiency cells. Ø Le financement dans les systèmes éducatifs d’Afrique subsaharienne, by Jean-Bernard Rasera, Jean-Pierre Jarousse and Coffi Remy Noumon, ADEA Working Group on Finance and Education (WGFE), April 2005 |
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May 24-27, 2005 Steering Committee meetings The next sessions of the ADEA Steering Committee will take place in Englien-les-Bains (France) and will involve a series of meetings: Bureau of Ministers (24 May); Meeting of Working Group Leaders and Coordinators (24 May); Steering Committee Seminar (25-26 May); Inter-Agencies meeting (26 May); and the Steering Committee administrative meeting (27 May). The western and central African network of educational research (ERNWACA) will also hold a meeting on 24 May. Ø For more information contact Thanh-Hoa Desruelles, ADEA Secretariat, th.desruelles@iiep.unesco.org May 26 - June 3, 2005 Workshop on integrating databases into the web site Following a number of successful workshops in 2004, a technical team at the NESIS regional center in Harare is now developing training material on how to design, develop, and manipulate databases and integrate them into the web site. These materials will be tested in the upcoming workshop, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 26 May to 3 June 2005. The course is open to people working as Ministry of Education data analysts and operation experts from English-speaking African countries. Ø For more information about the course content or sharing of country experiences, contact Tegegn Nuresu Wako, WGES, t.nuresu-wako@unesco.org May 29 - June 4, 2005 5th SMASSE- WECSA Regional Conference The SMASSE-WECSA Association to Strengthen Mathematics and Science in Secondary Education in western, eastern, central and sourthern Africa, which coordinates activities for the ADEA Working Group on Mathematics and Science Education (WGMSE), will hold its 5th regional conference around the topic of "Teaching mathematics and science: Enhancing classroom activities for quality teaching and learning in Africa". Ø For more information, contact Bernard Njuguna, coordinator, WGMSE, info@smasse.org. May 30, 2005 WGESA Steering Committee meeting The Steering Committee of the Working Group on Education Sector Analysis will be discussing ongoing and future activities, with special attention to its medium term strategy. In particular, the meeting will focus on the means and tools available for implementing the peer review exercise, learning through research, and anchoring its base more firmly in Africa. Ø For more information, contact Ibrahima Bah Lalya, Coordinator, WGESA, i.bahlalya@iiep.unesco.org May 30 - June 3, 2005 3rd African International Conference on Early Childhood Development Organized by the Working Group on Early Childhood Development of ADEA (ADEA-WGECD), which represents a partnership between UNICEF, the World Bank, UNESCO, WHO, the Early Childhood Development Virtual University (ECDVU), the Consultative Group on Early Childhood Development (CGECD) and national governments, the third conference will be held in Accra, Ghana with the theme “Moving Early Childhood Development Forward in Africa.” It will focus on three priority action areas:
The conference is expected to draw increased political commitment to early childhood development in Africa. Ø For more information, contact Jeannette Vogelaar Leader WGECD, jeannette.vogelaar@minbuza.nl May 31 - June 2, 2005 WGESA training workshop for Sahel countries The workshop, whose theme is “Learning through research: ways to facilitate the use of research results by decision-makers”, is intended for decision-makers and education program managers who will come from five sub-Saharan countries as well as Tanzania and Zambia. It will provide an introduction to learning through research and how research results might be used by decision-makers and managers, especially those who work in the ministries of education. The approach is already being used in Europe, southeast Asia and a few African countries. The workshop will be jointly organized with Niger, and will be run by members of the WGESA Steering Committee along with distinguished academics from Africa and Nepal. Ø For more information contact: Ibrahima Bah Lalya, Coordinator, WGESA, i.bahlalya@iiep.unesco.org May 31 - June 2, 2005 Regional conference on bilingual education and the use of local languages This conference, which is jointly organized by ADEA and GTZ (Germany) in partnership with the UNESCO Institute of Education (UIE), will be hosted by the Government of Namibia and take place in Windhoek. It will bring together experts on bilingual education and the use of local languages, representatives of Ministries of Education as well as representatives of GTZ, ADEA, UIE and various other agencies as a follow-up to the 2003 ADEA Biennial Meeting and in preparation for the next Biennial in 2006. The conference will provide the opportunity to reflect on a subject that is crucial for the development of education in Africa as well as to create a knowledge-base of good practices with regard to bilingual education and use of local languages. Ø For more information, contact Joris van Bommel, ADEA Secretariat, j.vanbommel@iiep.unesco.org May 31 - June 2, 2005 Ministerial seminar on education for rural development The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia are organizing a seminar in Addis Ababa that will address planning and policy issues affecting education for rural development in Africa. This seminar, scheduled for 7-9 September 2005, will bring together Ministers of Education and Agriculture from various African countries as well as representatives of the World Bank, FAO, IIEP/UNESCO, ADEA and other agencies as part of a general effort to make education in rural areas a top priority in national policies and aid strategies. Ø For more information, contact Joris van Bommel, ADEA Secretariat, j.vanbommel@iiep.unesco.org |
| ADEA Briefs is a monthly information bulletin that is distributed electronically to ADEA members in order to keep them abreast of association activities. The bulletin is produced by the ADEA Secretariat. For more information about the bulletin or to send in your comments, please contact the editor, Thanh-Hoa Desruelles, tel: +33(0) 145 03 77 69; fax: +33(0) 145 03 39 65; e-mail: th.desruelles@iiep.unesco.org; web site: http://www.adeanet.org/ |
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