August 2004 ADEA Briefs
Commonwealth Secretariat appoints a new coordinator
for the ADEA Working Group on the Teaching Profession
Mr Virgilio Juvane has been named coordinator of the
ADEA Working Group on the Teaching Profession (WGTP). He replaces
Mr. Henry Kaluba, who has been promoted to Deputy Director and Head
of Education at the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Mr. Juvane is from Mozambique. Before his appointment
as Coordinator of WGTP Mr. Juvane worked at the Ministry of Education
in Mozambique for 25 years where he initially served as Head of the
Planning Department and then as National Director for Planning for all
sub-sectors of education. In his capacity of National Director for Planning,
Mr. Juvane was also responsible for international cooperation within
the Ministry of Education. Mr. Juvane has also been a member of the
ADEA Working Group on Education Sector Analysis (WGESA). He holds a
Masters degree in Education and attended IIEP’s annual training
program in 1989/90.
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Ministerial meeting accepts new Commonwealth
Teacher Recruitment Protocol
Meeting in Lincolnshire, UK on 31 August
and 1 September 2004, ministers from 24 Commonwealth countries voted
to accept a Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol. Among these were
seven African countries: Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Mauritius,
Seychelles and South Africa. The meeting was chaired by Hon. Fabian
Osuji, currently Minister of Education of Nigeria.
The protocol aims to balance the rights
of teachers to migrate internationally, against the need to protect
the integrity of national education systems, and to prevent the exploitation
of scarce human resources of poor countries. It also seeks to safeguard
the rights of recruited teachers, and the conditions relating to their
service in the recruiting country.
The protocol was drawn up by a Working Group
on Teacher Recruitment that was established following a recommendation
by the Ministers of Education at the 15th Conference of Commonwealth
Education Ministers, held in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2003. It was then
tasked to develop ethical guidelines and a code of conduct for recruiting
teachers internationally within the Commonwealth.
The ministers made two recommendations for
follow-up activities:
- Undertake a study of teacher mobility so as to better
understand its scale and impact;
- Promote the Protocol as an example of “best
practice” that meets the highest international standards.
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