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Commonwealth Education Partnerships 2004
Size:
A4 (297 mm x 210 mm)
ISSN:
Categories:
Commonwealth and Global Affairs, Education
ISBN No:
978-0-11-703239-2
Publication Date:
2003
Number of Pages:
374
Status:
Out of print
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Description
This title is an essential overview of the development of education systems in the Commonwealth, focusing on international collaborations and on the partnerships in member countries between government, NGOs and the private sector in education. As the official publication for the 15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers, the 2004 edition covers both the current trends in education and development and the main themes of the meeting, focusing on access, inclusion and achievement as well as some of the challenges being faced in terms of partnering and financing development. It includes:
- Responding to the challenge of HIV/AIDS through education
- Contributions of open, distance and flexible learning to education and development
- Borderless higher education
- Education in small states
- Regional education perspectives
- Education profiles of each member country
- A directory of Commonwealth education and research contacts
Published for the Commonwealth Secretariat by TSO.
A more recent version of this title is available.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (15 CCEM): Halifax goals
Part 1: Access, inclusion, achievement: closing the gap
- The Education for All global monitoring report: is the world on track?
- Measuring access and attainment in basic education – progress and challenges for Commonwealth countries
- Access and achievement in Commonwealth countries: support for learning and teaching in multigrade classrooms
- Gender, poverty and education
- Promoting inclusive education
- Inclusive education: experience in Uganda
- Shared social space or digital divide? A global agenda for social inclusion
- Assessing learning: a Commonwealth overview
- Assessing learning in the Commonwealth Caribbean: perspectives and practices
- Assessing learning: a New Zealand perspective
- Quality and quantity in EFA and skills development: An East African angle
- Achieving quality education – a UNESCO perspective
Part 2: Partnering and financing development
- Public expenditure and education outcomes in developing countries
- Accelerating progress towards universal primary completion: the Education For All Fast-Track Initiative
- Financing education: perspectives of the Asian Development Bank
- Financing EFA: the European Community’s perspective
- Education For All: a CIDA perspective
- Achieving EFA: a personal view from the Head of Profession at DFID
- Achieving Education For All: an NZAI perspective
- Regional education perspectives: the Caribbean
- Broken promises? Achieving EFA: ActionAid’s perspective
- Achieving EFA: Uganda’s experience in financing basic education
Part 3: Sector focus
- A Commonwealth of teaching
- Education in small states: priorities and prospects
- School improvement in small states: the role of the Commonwealth
- Education policy borrowing: some questions for small states
- Open and distance learning and Commonwealth development priorities
- Open distance and flexible learning: new opportunities
- Constructing knowledge societies: new challenges for tertiary education
- Borderless higher education: a Commonwealth perspective <li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l2
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