Friday 22 January 2010
The aftershock of the global financial crisis threatens to deprive millions of children in the world’s poorest countries of an education, the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report warns. With 72 million children still out of school, a combination of slower economic growth, rising poverty and budget pressures could erode the gains of the past decade.
“While rich countries nurture their economic recovery, many poor countries face the imminent prospect of education reversals. We cannot (...)
Monday 18 January 2010
Dakar, Senegal, May 17-20 2010
The organising committee for the UNGEI E4 conference is made up of education activists, academics, practitioners and policy makers from many countries of the world. We are seeking papers and presentations that deal with gender, education, empowerment, and equality for our innovative E4 conference in May 2010. Although, over the last ten years, children around the world have had increased opportunities to attend school and benefit from education, nearly (...)
Thursday 14 January 2010
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This call for proposals set out the conditions for accessing the sixth edition (2010) of ERNWACA Research Grants Programme Website : www.ernwaca.org/grants2010/en
Themes: Quality Education in Africa: definition, indicators and practices. Education and the job market: curricula issues, teaching and learning issues, infrastructure issues. Preschool Education and the intellectual development of the child: effects, impacts and perspectives. (...)
Thursday 24 December 2009
The network was created 20 years ago at the initiative of young African intellectuals who want to establish a genuine culture of research in Africa To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA) has chosen the city of Bamako to organize an international colloquium. The meeting is devoted to educational research in educational practices and policies in Africa.
The opening ceremony of this intellectual meeting was chaired by the (...)
Wednesday 23 December 2009
The International Conference Centre of Bamako hosted, from December 15 to 17, 2009, an international colloquium on research practices and educational policies in Africa. The opening was chaired by the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Siby Ginette Bellegarde, surrounded by the national coordinators and researchers from member countries of the Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA).
In his introduction, the National Coordinator of ERNWACA (...)
Saturday 19 December 2009
The ERNWACA International Colloquium on educational policy and practice in Africa was held from 15 to 17 December 2009 in Bamako. Thirty papers were presented by participants. Please find Below the list of those presentations.
The Zero Grade Challenge
Youth Employment Skills Dvpt
Roles Of Indigenous Know… (...)
Saturday 19 December 2009
The International Conference Center of Bamako (CICB) hosted the opening ceremony of on an international colloquium which will be held from 15 to 17 December 2009 and organized by the Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Literacy and National Languages and the Department of Higher Education and Scientific Research on the theme "Educational Research on practice and policy in Africa."
The collquium was attended by (...)
Thursday 17 December 2009
The Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA) is twenty years old (12 February 1989-12 February 2009). To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of networking and educational research, ERNWACA chose Mali. In collaboration with the Ministries of Education, Literacy and National Languages and higher education and scientific research, the network is organizing from 15 to 17 December 2009 at the International Conference Center in Bamako (CICB), an international coloquium (...)
Thursday 3 December 2009
As part of its 20th anniversary, ERNWACA shares with you its course in networking and educational research. This document traces the milestones and achievements of ERNWACA.
ERNWACA is the acronym of Educational Research Network of West and Central Africa. It is a bilingual network (French/English), apolitical and non-profit-making created the 12th February 1989 in Freetown, Sierra Leone with the aim to promote educational research and African researchers in order to improve (...)
Wednesday 2 December 2009
This paper examines some of the ideas and discussions held over the course of the Norrag conference, “Policy transfer or policy learning: interactions between international and national skills development approaches for policy making”, hosted by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva the 25th and 26th of June 2009.The contributions prepared for this conference (listed in the bibliography) can be accessed on the Norrag Website ( www.norrag.org ).
Most (...)
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