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Press Releases
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Paris,
April 15, 2008
Maputo to Host 2008 Biennale on Education in Africa
ADEA
is actively preparing for the 2008 Biennale on Education in Africa.
The Biennale is the most important meeting in Africa in the field
of educational cooperation. It will take place in Maputo, Mozambique,
May 5-9, 2008.
Post-Primary Education, identified as one of the greatest challenges
facing education systems in Africa today, will be at the center
of the discussions. Three major areas will be addressed:
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Moving
towards 9-10 years compulsory Education for All: promising policies
and strategies;
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Skills development and the world of work: Challenges for education
and training;
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Building knowledge and competencies for Africa's development:
Articulating upper secondary with higher education.
Over 600 participants are expected to attend the Biennale. It
will be opened by President Armando Emilio Guebuza of Mozambique,
in the presence of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika of the Republic
of Algeria, guest of honor; the current Chairperson of the African
Union, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete; and the First Lady of Puerto Rico,
Luisa Acevedo Vilá.
Ministers of Education and Training from all of Africa are invited
to attend the Biennale as well as bilateral and multilateral development
agencies, experts, researchers and representatives from civil
society. The Biennale seeks to foster the sharing of knowledge
and experience, to identify lessons learned on policy and practice
and to promote shared understandings on challenges and strategies
for the benefit of the development of post-primary education across
the continent.
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Tunis,
April 9, 2008
Results of the Fifth competition of the ADEA's
Akintola Fatoyinbo Education Journalism Award
April 9, 2008:
The Jury of ADEA's Akintola Fatoyinbo Education Journalism Award
announced yesterday the results of the 5th Competition after two
days of deliberations in Tunis, at the African Development Bank.
Winners are from Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Senegal and Uganda.
The Award recognises the best articles education in Africa written
by African journalists and published in African newspapers. Through
the Award, ADEA recognizes excellence in the reporting of education
in the media and the promotion of public debates on education throughout
the continent.
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Bamako,
June 15 - 22, 2007
International Conference on School Fee Abolition Ends in Bamako
Organized June 19-22, 2007, by ADEA, UNICEF and the World Bank,
in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Mali, the International
Conference on School Fee Abolition: Planning for Quality and Financial
Sustainability ended in Bamako by the adoption of a Declaration
in which Ministers of education and finance of the 23 countries
attending the meeting reassert their "commitment to attaining the
goal of universal primary education by 2015".
The ministers' commitment is more concretely aimed at "doing whatever
is necessary so that no child is kept away from school because her/his
family does not have the financial resources to send him to school",
" to increase resources on the national level as well as the effectiveness
of their use", "to establish optimal policies" and to plan activities
that can "guarantee the success of the initiative to abolish school
fees".The Ministers also requested greater support on the part of
their financial partners - the G8 countries, the IMF and other donors
- in order "to make quality universal education a reality" and have
"funding that is foreseeable, available over the long term and compatible
with our national education plans".
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Bamako,
June 21, 2007
ADEA
invites articles for the Fifth Akintola Fatoyinbo Journalism award
ADEA
calls African journalists to compete in the 5th edition of the Akintola
Fatoyinbo Africa Education Journalism Award. The award recognizes
the most outstanding articles on education in Africa, authored by
African journalists and published in the African press. It seeks to
encourage the development of both quality education journalism and
public debates in this domain.
Take-off of the competition was announced by Adama Samassékou, President
of the African Academy of Languages (ACALAN) in Bamako, Mali, against
the International Conference on School Fee Abolition: Planning
for Quality and Financial Sustainability. The Conference was held
in Bamako June 19-22, 2007 and was organized by ADEA, UNICEF and the
World Bank in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Mali.
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Libreville,
March 31, 2006
More
and Better Education:
What Makes Effective Learning in Schools and in Literacy and Early
Childhood Development Programs?
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Africa today should undertake to formulate a new
social contract for education in order to meet the major challenge
of African development. This is the message conveyed by the 7th Biennale
on Education in Africa, which was opened on March 27 at the International
Conference Center in Libreville by the head of state of Gabon, President
Omar Bongo Ondimba, and his guest of honor, the head of state of Cape
Verde, President Pedro Pires.
At the invitation of the Association for the Development of Education
in Africa (ADEA), over 475 participants spent a week discussing ways
and means of providing more and better education, while trying to
answer the crucial question of how to ensure effective learning in
schools, literacy programs and early childhood development programs.
The discussions gave rise to a series of recommendations based on
the central assumption that successful education depends not only
on financial resources, but also on effective and ongoing advocacy
work, the establishment of strategic partnerships and, most important,
political will.' (Excerpt from: Download
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December 12
- 17,
2005, Dakar, Senegal
First Annual Seminar-Workshop on sharing of ideas and capacity building
for actors and teacher's training institutes in francophone Africa
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September
9, 2005, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
The Ministerial Conference
on Education for Rural People in Africa
The Ministerial Conference on Education for Rural People ended on
Friday 9 September in Addis Ababa. The seminar has allowed the ministers
to present a Communiqué containing their recommendations. The Hon.
Mr. Teshome Yizengaw, Vice-Minister for Higher Education of Ethiopia,
lauded the seminar that has « fostered new partnerships and alliances
amongst African countries and has clearly demonstrated our common
vision and dedication to design African strategies for African problems.»
According to Mrs.Villareal of FAO
« One of the main objectives of the ministerial seminar on Education
for Rural People has been achieved: Ministers of education, agriculture,
fisheries and rural development and high-level officials from eleven
African countries have agreed to join efforts to enhance education
in rural areas».
The
Executive Secretary of ADEA, Mr. Mamadou Ndoye declared: "Countries
now have two obligations. First, they must implement affirmative
action policies to correct inequalities between urban and rural
areas. Second, they must develop responses that are adapted to the
demands of rural peoples and which are relevant and quality focused."
The Executive Secretary also stressed the need to engage partners
going beyond the education sector. "Education programs cannot be
relevant if they are not articulated to development programs. Hence
the need for inter-sectoral approaches to education."
August 3- 5, 2005
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.
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November 20, 2004
The ADEA is organising a conference in Bamako
on contractual primary school teachers
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November 19, 2004
ADEA winds up a two-day seminar on education for
all in Kigali, Rwanda
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November 17, 2004
The ADEA gathers in Kigali, Rwanda, to review
progress toward education for all in Africa
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July 30, 2004
Ministerial conference on the integration of ICTs
in education closes in Abuja, Nigeria
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28, 2004
Ministerial conference on the integration of ICTs
in education opens in Abuja, Nigeria
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July 22, 2004
African Ministers and Education Specialists
Meet on the Use of ICTs in Education in Abuja, Nigeria
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June 9, 2004
Conference on Secondary Education in Africa Ends
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June 7, 2004
Conference on Secondary Education in Africa Opens
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June 4, 2004
Eighteen countries are meeting in Dakar to discuss
secondary education in Africa
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June 3, 2004
Post-conflict Peace and Reconciliation Require Transformation of the
Education System
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June 2, 2004
African Ministers discuss Education Conflict Situations
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