February 2005 ADEA Briefs
WG on Higher
Education holds extraordinary session in Cape
Town during AAU's 11th General Conference
Back-to-back
with the Association of African Universities' (AAU) 11th
General Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the ADEA WG on Higher
Education held an
extraordinary meeting on February 19-20, 2005.
- The meeting was called to:Review
the preliminary report of the internal assessment of the WG;
- Discuss the WG Strategic Plan (2006-2008)
; and
- Present a survey on articulation
and differentiation within tertiary education institutions in Africa.
A Task Team was set up to revise the
Memorandum of Understanding between ADEA and AAU as well as finalize
the WG strategic Plan for 2006-2008. The Task Team will meet in Accra,
Ghana some time during the first half of June 2005. The survey, which
will be finalized in 2005, has already mapped out the institutional
landscape of tertiary education in Africa. Steering Committee members
were also briefed on 2004 activities and progress on the implementation
of the 2005 program.
> More on WGHE: Click
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WGCOMED
holds training workshop for communication officers and journalists in
Bamako
Sixty people from Mali’s educational establishment
attended a workshop in Bamako, February 21 -25, 2005. They included
journalists reporting on education and communication officers working
in the education sector . During th eworkshop the participants created
a committee charged to set up a national network of journalists specialized
in education reporting that will be constituted by the end of April
2005.
In the resolutions and recommendations of the meeting,
the participants expressed the ir wish to “mobilize everyone to
make a great national leap forward for education and bring together
efforts.” They also recommended that other training sessions be
organized in order to increase their skills.
The Bamako workshop was jointly organized by Mali's Ministry
of Education and the ADEA Working Group on Communication for Education
and Development (COMED) .
> Read in the press:
Afribone
article
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WGESA helps M auritius launch self-evaluation
of educational reform in preparation for peer review exercise
WGESA was in Mauritius, February 21 -26, 2005 for a
preliminary fact-finding mission aimed at determining the conditions
for a successful self-evaluation of the country’s educational
reforms. This self-evaluation is a key step in implement ing the peer
review exercise on education in Africa. WGESA paid particular attention
to involving local educators and educational administrators from all
parts of the country and across all education levels, from pre-primary
to university, and from both public and private sectors.
It also ensured that a mutually enriching dialogue took
place between the nationals and their peers abroad, represented by the
mission team composed of experts from Guinea, Swaziland, Madagascar,
Jamaica and the OECD. The draft framework for cooperation between ADEA
and Mauritius was fully discussed and an agreement reached by the two
teams. The international peer expert list was also examined and three
potential team leaders were identified for submission to Mauritius and
ADEA. Key questions as well as the major challenges and methodologies
to address them for a successful implementation of the self-evaluation
were discussed.
As often emphasized, two elements are critical to the
ADEA approach to peer review sin Africa: the country’s ownership
of the process, and the cooperation of international peers, mostly African.
As the next step, Mauritius will be conducting its self-evaluation
with WGESA assistance, while WGESA will be assisting Gabon to jump start
its own evaluation.
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Policy dialogue: ADEA and IBE strengthen
partnership
At a meeting held on February 28, ADEA and IBE took
stock of lessons learned from the policy dialogue training workshops
organized jointly from 2002 to 2005. Four such workshops have been organized
so far: three for francophone countries (in Dakar and Bamako) and one
for lusophone countries (in Luanda). Policy dialogue is increasingly
needed for consensus building, for appeasing conflicts and pacification,
and for establishing partnerships to support educational policies and
reforms. Evolving democratic processes, civil society involvement in
education, decentralization and the need for coordinating external interventions
also require greater dialogue between concerned parties.
ADEA and IBE exchanged future plans of both institutions
in the area of policy dialogue and discussed modalities for collaboration
in 2005. Three workshops will be organized this year: the first will
cater to anglophone countries; the second will focus on countries emerging
from conflict; the third, for lusophone countries, will focus on negotiation.
An ad hoc group will be set up to produce a baseline
document on policy dialogue and to develop training materials for African
ministries of education. The two organizations will meet again in Geneva
on March 18 in order to finalize th e terms of reference for the ad
hoc group and identify a coordinator.
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L'Harmattan to disseminate ADEA publications
By arrangement with the French publisher L' Harmattan,
many of the books produced by ADEA will benefit from the large distribution
network of one of France’s best-known Africanist publishers. In
Africa, L' Harmattan distributes through all the main booksellers in
the capital cities. In the North, the publishing house sells through
bookstores throughout Europe and North America. ADEA will continue to
provide publications free of charge to its own membership :ministers
of education; agencies represented on the Steering Committee; working
groups and other members of its extended network , which include the
partner organizations with which it collaborates. Partnerships with
African publishers and printers are also being sought.
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ADEA explores collaboration
on bilingual education with the Agence intergouvernementale de la francophonie
(AIF)
ADEA is exploring possible areas for further collaboration
with the education section of the Agence intergouvernementale de la
francophonie (AIF). A first meeting between ADEA and AIF took place
in late 2004 and AIF participat ed in the Bamako conference on contractual
teachers organized by ADEA last November.
Possible collaboration in the area of bilingual education
includes:
AIF support to ADEA's inter-country quality node
on bilingual education and the use of local languages via technical
support to various countries;
Developing synergies between two studies underway: AIF's
stocktaking review on the state-of-the-art concerning bilingual education
and the use of local languages in some African countries and the ADEA/UIE
ongoing study on bilingual education;
Participation of AIF in the conference on bilingual education
and the use of local languages, which will be organized jointly by GTZ,
UIE and ADEA in Windhoek, Namibia, August 3-5, 2005;
Participation of ADEA in the regional seminar on integrating
national languages in countries of the Indian Ocean region. The seminar
will focus on assisting countries to develop appropriate linguistic
and education policies. The meeting is scheduled to take place April
19-21 in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
ADEA and AIF also dicussed the possibility of exchanging
databases and cooperating in the area of literacy.
> More on AIF: Click
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ADEA
Participation in External Meetings |
Bamako school of management (IHEM) hosts
culture and development forum
The 5th Forum of the Institut des Hautes
Etudes de Management (IHEM) brought participants together from Mali,
other African countries, France, Canada and Switzerland for an exchange
of experiences on “Culture and Development.” The meeting
was held at the Hotel Sofitel Amitié in Bamako, on Febuary 17
and 18, 2005. Discussion focused on the links between cultural factors
and development processes. It highlighted the delicate interaction between
the need to preserve African cultures, on the one hand, and the computerization
process being fuelled by globalization, on the other; on the coexistence
between African cultural values and standards of efficiency required
in managing a modern business; and on African cultural traditions that
are in direct conflict with the need to build a modern state.
In this process, the role of educational
policy in helping African culture evolve and encourage endogenous potential
to create and produce was underlined, as good policies can provide African
society with the tools and conditions it needs to meet these development
challenges.
The Forum was opened by the Prime Minister
of Mali and was concluded by the President of the Republic. ADEA’s
Executive Secretary spoke on the subject: “African cultures and
development: Impediments and opportunities”.
> Read in the press:
Le
Républicain
article
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11th General Conference
of the Association of African Universities (AAU) examines cross-border
provision
The Conference ran from February 21 to
25, 2005 in Cape Town, South Africa, and was opened by President Mbeki
of South Africa. Under the banner of “Cross-border provision and
the future of higher education in Africa” it brought together
rectors, vice-chancellors and representatives of universities from the
entire continent in addition to development assistance agencies and
other international bodies and universities. ADEA’s contribution
to the strengthening of the AAU through its WG on Higher Education was
formally recognized during the conference.
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FAWE side event at Beijing
+ 10 meeting highlights TUSEME girls’ empowerment model
From February 28 to March 11, 2005, the Forum of African Women Educationalists
(FAWE) attended the 49th Session of the UN Commission on the Status
of Women in New York. On the agenda was a side event devoted to “Best
practices in girls’ education in sub-Saharan Africa: the TUSEME’s
girls’ empowerment model”. In the course of sharing their
experience the FAWE panel described how TUSEME has:
- Given girls the skills to analyze and understand gender
constraints and take action to eliminate them;
- Helped them develop self-confidence, self-esteem,
assertiveness, negotiation and leadership skills; and
- Been generalized as a “best practice”
to many other schools in sub-Saharan Africa.
Panelists included:
Penina Mlama, Executive Director of
FAWE , and three FAWE Program Officers: Rose Washika,
Marema Dioum and Lorna Murage. Ann Keeling, Director of the Commonwealth
Secretariat Division of Social Transformation, was the discussant.
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Guinea tells story of how it reformed its
pre-service training program for primary teachers
The successful mass recruitment of primary
school teachers is one of the challenges facing African ministers of
education if they are to ensure a primary education for all children.
This study describes how Guinea has succeeded in training 2000 teachers
each year since 1998, even though it barely managed training 200 until
1997. Such a remarkable feat was achieved through reform of its primary
teacher training program.
The study was written by a team from Guinea's
ministry of technical and vocational education and its ministry of pre-university
and civic education. It was carried out in the framework of ADEA’s
exercise on improving the quality of education in sub-Saharan Africa.
> The reform of pre-service primary teacher training
in Guinea: Click
here to download the PdF file (in French only)
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ADEA welcomes new interim coordinator for
its Working Group on Education Statistics
Mr. Tegegn Nuresu Wako, from Ethiopia,
has been appointed interim coordinator of ADEA’s WG on Education
Statistics. Mr. Wako holds a B.Sc in Statistics from Addis Ababa University
(Ethiopia) and an M.Sc in analysis, design and management of information
systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mr. Wako is specialized in educational statistics
and worked in Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education for many years
as head of Education Management Information Systems (EMIS). Three years
ago he joined the National Education Statistical Information System
(NESIS) fulltime, and has continued to contribute as a team member to
work on research, monitoring and evaluation.
Besides his work in statistics, M r. Wako
has also published a number of training modules on:
Basic indicators of education systems performance
Indicators of educational disparity, and
Education management information systems:
an overview.
> More on WGES/NESIS: Click
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March 14, 2005
ADEA Bureau to meet for planning session
The ADEA Bureau, composed of the Chair
, the Alternate Chair (President of the Caucus of African Ministers
), the Vice President ex-Officio and the Executive Secretary of ADEA,
will meet in Paris on March 14. They will discuss the planning of the
next Steering Committee meetings a s well as a number of other issues:
preparation of the conference that will focus on implementation of NEPAD's
education program; ADEA's presence within subregional groupings such
as the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); and, the ongoing
evaluation of ADEA.
> For more information contact Thanh-Hoa
Desruelles, ADEA Secretariat
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March
15-16, 2005
Consultative meeting on effective literacy programs
in Africa to be held in Paris in view of next Biennale
The Working Group on Non Formal Education,
in collaboration with the ADEA Secretariat, will organize a "Consultative
meeting on the conditions and factors needed to develop effective policies
and literacy programs in Africa". The workshop is being held with
a view towards preparation of the next ADEA Biennial Meeting.
> For more information contact Joris
Van Bommel, ADEA Secretariat
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April
29, 2005
New Ad hoc Working Group on Post-Primary Education
(WGPPE) to meet in Edinburgh
The meeting is being held back-to-back
with a conference on “Re-integrating education skills and work
in Africa: towards informal or knowledge economies”, which is
being organized by the Centre of African Studies of the University of
Edinburgh. The meeting will decide what topics to tackle and how best
to lead the WG towards fulfilling its objectives.
> For m ore information contact Hamidou
Boukary, ADEA Secretariat
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May
11-14, 2005
Uganda workshop to explore best policies for responding
to HIV/AIDS in education
May 11-14, in Entebbe, the Ministry of
Education and Sports of Uganda, together with ADEA and IIEP, will sponsor
a “Partner workshop on needs assessment and research results”.
Country action plans to fight HIV/AIDS in the education sector will
be developed based on the results of action research studies conducted
in Uganda, Malawi and Tanzania, and the outcomes of training needs assessments
carried out in the ministries of education of Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya
and Rwanda. Representatives from ADEA working groups will assist country
teams in formulating their national plans.
> For m ore information contact Hamidou
Boukary, ADEA Secretariat
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