Commonwealth Education Partnerships 2012 / 13

Commonwealth Education Partnerships is the official publication of the 18th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers, and will be launched by Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma. Every delegate at the event will receive a copy.

Contents

Ministers’ welcome: Dr the Hon Vasant K Bunwaree and Dr the Hon Rajesh Jeetah
Foreword: Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma
Overview: Bridging the education gap, Dr Sylvia Anie

Improving education systems: access

  • Will there be education goals after 2015?: Education’s fragile position on the global agenda, Nicholas Burnett
  • Global Partnership for Education: Major achievements and significant challenges for Commonwealth members, Luis Crouch
  • Education: 2015 and beyond, Steve Packer
  • The state of the world’s girls – learning for life, Sharon Goulds
  • Making the leap: Expanding secondary education in the Commonwealth, Fatimah Kelleher and Anne-Marie Philip
  • Viewpoint: Can the Commonwealth impact on the quality of education in sub-Saharan Africa? Phumzile Mlambo Ncuka and Stephen Blunden
  • TSiBA education
  • Realising the right to free and compulsory education in India: an uphill task, Jyotsna Jha
  • Early childhood care and education in Trinidad and Tobago, Bhadase Seetahal-Maraj
  • Financing education through public-private partnership: Governance, transparency and accountability, Allah Bakhsh Malik
  • PPP in education: going beyond the PFI mode, Hee Kong Yong
  • To privatise, purchase or partner: Defining public-private partnership in education, Modupe Adefeso-Olateju
  • School in a Box: Providing a whole-class learning solution in developing countries, Philip Penny and Ciarán McCormack

Improving education systems: quality and leadership

  • Accountability and governance in the public school system: A case for education leadership in India, Aditya Natraj
  • Celebrating Botswana’s teachers, Matlhogonolo Mokakapadi
  • Women and the teaching profession: Exploring the feminisation debate in the Commonwealth, Fatimah Kelleher
  • Reflections on the bright and dark sides of free education in sub-Saharan Africa, George K T Oduro
  • Supporting the effective assessment and teaching of 21st-century skills, ATC21S
  • Teacher development: what works? Tessa Welch
  • Outcomes and outputs in Caribbean education systems: the case of Jamaica, Suzanne M Charles Watson
  • School leadership still matters, Petros Pashiardis
  • Teacher education in Samoa, Epenesa Esera
  • Strengthening and improving teaching and learning in schools across PNG, Peter Kants
  • Class size and student diversity: two sides of the same coin, Bernie Froese-Germain, Rick Riel and Bob McGahey
  • What should be taught in our schools and why? Robin Barrow
  • The other and I: Turkish teachers in South Africa, Michael Samuel
  • Some cautionary words about constructivism, Matthew Conduct

The Commonwealth factor

  • Fostering governmental support for open educational resources: The 2012 World OER Congress, Sir John Daniel
  • How mobile technology can benefit learning for development, Venkataraman Balaji
  • Promoting excellence in education through Commonwealth teacher exchange, Helen Jones
  • Respect, understanding and human rights education: a fair exchange? Steve Sharra
  • Learning from Commonwealth small states Educational policies and priorities beyond 2015, Michael Crossley, Mark Bray, Pearlette Louisy, Steve Packer and Terra Sprague
  • Increasing access to higher education in small states, John Lesperance
  • Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards 2012, Hipolina Joseph
  • Managing teacher migration Implications for policy and practice in Africa, Kimberly Ochs and Akemi Yonemura
  • Teacher recruitment and teacher mobility in Sri Lanka, B M Jayantha Balasooriya
  • Learning for all of Africa’s children – but in whose language? Birgit Brock-Utne
  • The challenge of delivering quality education in sub-Saharan Africa, Stephen Blunden
  • Bringing citizens’ voices to Commonwealth education ministers, Vijay Krishnarayan
  • Teacher training in Rwanda and the shift to English-medium education, John Simpson and Emmanuel Muvunyi
  • How sport and exercise contribute to education goals, Oliver Dudfield
  • Informal education for citizenship, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award International Association (IAA)
  • Education and the Commonwealth: saving the jewel in the crown, Peter Williams

Inclusive education and human rights

  • Promoting equality with life-changing learning for disadvantaged groups, Gautam Patel and Devika Devaiah
  • Paying attention to pupils’ speech, language and communication needs, Victoria Joffe
  • “We are what we read”: respect for self and others, John A Pittar
  • Making inclusive education a reality for children of the world with disabilities, Richard Rieser
  • Promoting the educational inclusion of children with albinism in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi, Patricia Lund and Paul Lynch
  • Sightsavers and education, Guy Le Fanu
  • Addressing violence against children in schools in the United Republic of Tanzania, Rachel Pounds and Martha Hewison

Education in difficult circumstances

  • The role and status of forced migrant teachers in education in emergencies, Jonathan Penson
  • Fragile and conflict-affected education systems: Working for integrity and social accountability, Tiri – Integrity Action and International Records Management Trust
  • The UNAIDS Inter-Agency Task Team on Education: Supporting the education sector’s response to HIV, Florence Mugoya Malinga, Audrey Kettaneh, Chris Castle and Scott Pulizzi
  • Putting youth at the heart of HIV/AIDS prevention efforts, Raj K Mishra
  • Widespread and participatory learning about health, Ian Pringle
  • A sense of belonging: what makes health workers want to practise rurally? Christopher Roberts
  • Education in the community: Learning to live with environmental change, Nigel Clark
  • CMGE: a lighthouse for multi-grade teaching in Africa, Jurie Joubert
  • OER for Open Schools initiative, Frances J Ferreira

Post-secondary and higher education: meeting the demand

  • Huge challenges in the South African post-schooling system: Can technology enhanced distance education make a difference? Jenny Glennie
  • The promise of open educational resources for higher education in Africa, Catherine Ngugi and Neil Butcher
  • School-to-work transition in the Caribbean: social efficiency or active citizenship? Henry Charles and Madgerie Jameson-Charles
  • Learning for life: Malaysia’s expectations towards Vision 2020, Anuwar Ali
  • Connecting the Commonwealth through research partnerships, Lorraine Symaco and Michael Crossley
  • A TVET framework model to facilitate policy formulation, Nasir Kazmi
  • Linking TVET with economic expansion: Lessons from Singapore, Law Song Seng
  • Gender, early childhood education and development in Singapore, Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports, Singapore
  • Gender, science and technology: the sustainability gap, Kabir Shaikh

Commonwealth Member Countries

Reference

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