Africa Development Indicators 2010

This year’s Africa Development Indicators essay sheds light on “quiet corruption” — when public servants fail to deliver services or inputs that have been paid for by the government. The most prominent examples are absentee teachers in public schools and absentee doctors in primary clinics. The report features data and research on quiet corruption in the health, education, and agriculture sectors.

For more references on corruption in the education sector, access the ETICO database.

Joint ILO/UNESCO recommendations concerning teaching personnel

This report summarizes the analysis of major issues affecting the current status of teaching personnel worldwide at all levels of education by the Joint ILO/UNESCO Committee of Experts on the Application of the Recommendations concerning Teaching Personnel (CEART). Key issues include:

• Social dialogue in education;
• Teacher education – initial and continuing;
• Employment and careers, teacher salaries, including teacher compensation in fragile states, and teaching and learning conditions;
• Teacher shortages in the framework of Education for All (EFA), including financing and recruitment challenges, impact of HIV and AIDS on the profession, and recruitment and retention of female teachers;
• Academic freedom and institutional autonomy in higher education;
• Higher education terms and conditions of employment: Impact of private and for-profit providers of post-secondary education.

More information on impacts of HIV and AIDS on the teaching profession can be found at:
http://hivaidsclearinghouse.unesco.org/search/format_liste.php?lang=en&ret=topics.php&Chp6=Teacher+training+and+support

 

Crise économique mondiale: les femmes menacées

Précarité, chômage, diminution des ressources, les effets de la crise économique se font chaque jour un peu plus sentir sur la population. En première ligne, les femmes...

Voir le dossier pp. 9-17 du dernier numéro de la revue Aide et Action

Why we can't get rid of failing teachers

The relative decline of American education at the elementary- and high-school levels has long been a national embarrassment as well as a threat to the nation's future. Once upon a time, American students tested better than any other students in the world. Now, ranked against European schoolchildren, America does about as well as Lithuania, behind at least 10 other nations. Within the United States, the achievement gap between white students and poor and minority students stubbornly persists—and as the population of disadvantaged students grows, overall scores continue to sag.

Africa Education Watch : La mauvaise gouvernance menace l’éducation primaire en Afrique

Un nouveau rapport montre qu’un renforcement de la gouvernance est essentiel pour atteindre les objectifs d’éducation dans sept pays.
ADDIS ABEBA, Ethiopie, 23 février 2010/African Press Organization (APO)/ — La mauvaise gouvernance et une gestion inefficace menacent les efforts déployés pour fournir une éducation de base de qualité dans sept pays africains, selon un nouveau rapport publié aujourd’hui par Transparency International (TI).
Le rapport, Africa Education Watch : Leçons de bonne gouvernance pour l’éducation primaire montre qu’en dépit de dix ans d’efforts pour augmenter les inscriptions à l’école à travers l’initiative Education pour tous et les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement, des systèmes et pratiques de gouvernance déficients ou inexistants limitent les progrès.

Politics, UNESCO, and Higher Education: A Case Study

On Wednesday, July 8, 2009, at 5:00 pm (Paris time), the World Conference on Higher Education steering-committee chairperson read the conference’s final communiqué. The entire assembly of 199 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) member countries, approved it by consensus and with acclamations. The chairperson reported that 20 observers followed the drafting committee’s work. Two of these observers are the authors of this article, offering a behind-the-scenes account of the events that occurred before the final communiqué’s presentation. In contrast to the general calm atmosphere predominating during the conference sessions, the drafting process was notable for passionate debates and tense negotiations among members, as they worked to craft the final document.

Abolishing fees boosts African schooling

By eliminating fees, Kenya was able to quickly get 2 million more pupils into its primary schools.