[August 2010]
THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF “EMERGING”, “NON-DAC” DONORS AND THEIR SUPPORT TO HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
The next issue of NORRAG NEWS (NN44) is dedicated to an analysis of the new development partners, sometimes termed emerging donors. This latter is not a very useful term and especially as it is often used to refer to India, China and South Korea which have been involved in development cooperation for a very long time. These newer actors in development assistance are (...)
XIV World Congress of World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) – Istanbul, Turkey, 14-18 June 2010
“BORDERING, RE-BORDERING AND NEW POSSIBILITIES IN EDUCATION AND SOCIETY”
İSTANBUL 2010 14-18 JUNE
ERNWACA, NORRAG and RedEtis held in Istanbul (Turkey) a common round table on June 16th, 2010 during the XIV World Congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) on the theme: “North-South Networking & International Development Co-operation. (...)
Date: 5 and 6 July 2010, Faculty of Education - University of Lagos
Placed under the patronage of the Deputy Governor of Lagos State and sponsored by Swedish SIDA (Sweden), the launching ceremony of the 2nd edition of the Journal of Education Research in Africa (JERA) and the Regional Training Workshop in scientific writing were held on 5 and 6 July 2010 at the Faculty of Education of the University of Lagos, (...)
Kenya has been selected as the East African host of the planned Pan-African University, a specialised institution comprising a network of universities that is being created to help supply the continent’s high-level human capital. This ends a five-month stalemate between countries in the region that had been squabbling over who the host would be.
The choice was made at a recent Conference of Ministers of Education meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa organised by the 53-member (...)
The sixth regional training workshop in research methodology and scientific writing, held in Yaounde from 28 to 30 June 2010 brought together the recipients of the 5th and 6th edition of ERNWACA Research Grants Programme.
A regional training workshop on scientific writing was held on 5 and 6 July 2010, alongside the launching of the second issue of the African Journal of Educational Research (RARE / JERA), at the Faculty of Education University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria on the theme: "Diversity University and Innovative Practices with the use of ICT.
Two objectives were assigned to the workshop:
1. Bringing the 12 researchers whose proposals were selected for JERA No. 2 to master the (...)
The National Coordination of ERNWACA in Mali organized on Saturday, 19 June 2010 a dissemination workshop in Room Bakary Traore situated in the courtyard of the Ministry of Education, Literacy and National Languages (Bamako).
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Source: ORTM (Malian Broadcasting Corp.)
After 13 years as founder and executive director, Firoze Manji has stepped down from his role as ED to focus attention on developing Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press.
We should clarify that Firoze remains as Editor in Chief of Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press - and he remains a member of staff of Fahamu (letters from many of you indicated that our original advert might have been ambiguous).
The board of trustees of Fahamu is therefore seeking a dynamic, visionary person with a (...)
The Agency for Telecommunications in Côte d’Ivoire (ATCI) in partnership with the Initiative for Internet governance in Cote d ’Ivoire (IGICI) held in Abidjan, the first edition of the forum on the Internet governance in Côte d’Ivoire. This forum chaired by the Minister of ICT, Mr OGOUABI, took place on 7, 8 and 9 July 2010.
During this workshop, ERNWACA Côte d’Ivoire, represented by N’DEDE Florence , a researcher of the PanAf project ( www.panaf-edu.org ), presented a paper on the (...)
The sixth regional training workshop in research methodology and scientific writing, held in Yaounde from 28 to 30 June 2010 brought together the recipients of the 5th and 6th edition of ERNWACA Research Grants Programme.
Representatives of three recipient teams (2010 edition) participated in this training which aims to improve the methodological quality of research proposals, instruments, data collection and analysis methods.
The 10 researchers from the workshop were trained to enhance (...)
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