My second meeting was at the Institute of Education Planning. The deputy director there is Suzanne Lewis, a powerhouse personality with a PhD from Harvard and a vision for the Institute to contribute broadly to improving the planning for education systems in developing countries. I made a well received presentation to a groups of staff, and and trainees from all over the globe, many of whom are completing their masters in educational planning. They had good informed questions..and were a lively bunch. Here I am below in my Paris apartment writing up my notes after a long day of meetings...
I had two interesting meetings at UNESCO bodies this week. The first was with the Education For All Global Monitoring Team who monitor and report annually on countries' progress towards six agreed goals. Their reports go straight to the point when countries are failing to make progress..the 2012 report launched in October 2012 "with 164 countries...progress towards many of the targets is slow, and most goals are unlikely to be met..for example, progress on early childhood care and education is slow....adult literacy remains an elusive goal..." Gaps are quantified and the links between financing and improvement are made. Education is placed in its wider social outcomes framework, something the OECD is increasingly advocating for developed countries.
My second meeting was at the Institute of Education Planning. The deputy director there is Suzanne Lewis, a powerhouse personality with a PhD from Harvard and a vision for the Institute to contribute broadly to improving the planning for education systems in developing countries. I made a well received presentation to a groups of staff, and and trainees from all over the globe, many of whom are completing their masters in educational planning. They had good informed questions..and were a lively bunch. Here I am below in my Paris apartment writing up my notes after a long day of meetings...
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