ADEA News Briefs, January 2014

Prière cliquer ici pour la version française de ce bulletin : Brèves de l'ADEA, janvier 2014

Dear members and partners and other esteemed readers,

This is the second edition of the revived ADEA News Briefs. We are happy that the first edition published in November was well received and we thank those who have sent their comments and feedback.

We trust that you have also received the ADEA Newsletter, Volume 21, Number 1 (January-March 2014), which summarizes lessons learned from ADEA’s Triennale on “Critical knowledge, skills and qualifications for Africa’s sustainable development” and reports on what ADEA has done since the event to implement the Triennale’s recommendations.

With these two revived communication tools – The News Briefs and the ADEA Newsletter – ADEA hopes to achieve the following:

• Through ADEA’s News Briefs: Keep abreast its members and partners of ADEA’s ongoing activities and programs. The News briefs will be issued on a monthly basis.
• Through The ADEA Newsletter: Report on lessons learned in a domain explored by ADEA. The ADEA Newsletter is a quarterly publication. The next issue (April-June 2014) will focus on the Integration of ICTs in Education
• Strengthen our bond with our members and partners, with the aim of increasing our interaction and collaboration with them
• Arouse interest in ADEA from new actors and stakeholders and ADEA’s interaction with them. The present New Briefs carry news and information on activities and developments within ADEA since November 2013

We encourage our readers to communicate their views and provide us with regular feedback on the issues that feature in the News Briefs and in the ADEA Newsletter.

Enjoy your reading!

The ADEA Secretariat
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• CEN-SAD calls on ADEA to develop a strategic policy framework for the education of nomadic people

  ADEA has been called to lead the development of a strategic policy framework for the education of nomads. This responsibility was assigned to ADEA during the Regional Conference for Education in Nomadic Environments of the Sahel-Sahara region” that took place in Niamey, Niger, December 2-5, 2013..

• Inter-Ministerial Forum calls for Africa to integrate ICT in education and assume its place in the world of ICT

  The First Inter-Ministerial Forum held from 9 – 11 December in Tunis ended with a call for African countries to prepare and adopt a national policy framework to integrate ICT in their education and training systems. The Conference also called educators to invest much more time, money and effort in information and communication technology (ICT)...

• ADEA holds 39th Session of its Steering Committee in Tunis

  ADEA held the 39th Session of its Steering Committee in Tunis, December 12-13, 2013. The meeting discussed the 2014 Program and Budget, ADEA’s financial situation and implementation of the organizational audit conducted in 2013...

• ADEA and the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMOE) explore areas of partnership

  ADEA had the great pleasure of greeting the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMOE) in Tunis, during the 39th Session of the ADEA Steering Committee...

• Tribute to Nelson Mandela

  Nelson Mandela once said “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”. Mandela regarded education as the tool for developing Africa and empowering individuals to lift themselves out of poverty...

• ADEA participates in EFA and PACTED meetings on teachers

  November 25-29, 2013, ADEA’s Acting Executive Secretary Hamidou Boukary participated in the Sixth International Policy Dialogue Forum of the International Task Force on Teachers for Education for All (EFA) and on November 29 in the meeting of the partners of the African Union Commission (AUC) on the Pan-African Conference on Teacher Development (PACTED)...

• ADEA bids farewell to its former Executive Secretary, Mr. Jean Marie Ahlin Byll-Cataria

  Following his retirement from active service as the Executive Secretary of ADEA, the members of the ADEA Steering Committee and Staff at the ADEA Secretariat in Tunis, and the Working Groups based in various regions of Africa bid farewell to their former Executive Secretary on Friday December 13, 2013...

• WGEMPS participates in SADC Peer Review of EMIS in Swaziland

  Based on a request made by the SADC Secretariat at its recent annual ministers meeting in Maputo, Swaziland and Botswana were designated to undergo a SADC Peer Review of their EMIS systems based on the SADC EMIS Norms and Standard Framework approved in 2012...

• ADEA supports the visit of a Kenyan delegation to Portugal to learn from the country’s successful implementation of an ICT in education policy

  The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) of the Government of Kenya (GoK) is currently exploring ways and means of implementing the “One-Laptop-Per-Child” pledge made by President Uhuru Kenyatta as he came into Office last year...

• ADEA conducts fact-finding mission to Liberia

  ADEA responded to a request by the Liberian Minister of Education Government to visit the country to assess how ADEA could support educational development in Liberia. Being a post-conflict country, Liberia is faced with a myriad of educational challenges in terms of access, quality and equity that need to be addressed in order to bring the country back on the developmental path...

• ADEA, SAQMEQ and PASEC discuss formalization of a partnership for the measurement of education quality at SACMEQ’s Annual Assembly of Ministers

  Over the years, the Southern Africa Consortium for the Measurement of Education Quality (SACMEQ) and ADEA have collaborated on a number of initiatives in the SADC and Eastern Africa regions...

• ADEA participates in 13th Annual SMASE-WECSA Association Conference

  The 13th Annual Strengthening Mathematics and Science Education in West, East, Central and Southern Africa (SMASE-WECSA) Conference, was held in Nairobi, Kenya October 28-November 1, 2013, on the theme ‘Rethinking the Strategies for the Future Sustainability of SMASE-WECSA’…

• ADEA WGEMPS participates in AU 7th Meeting of the Committee of Directors General of National Statistics Offices

  The 7th Meeting of the Committee of Directors General of National Statistics Offices took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 5-7, 2013...

• Obituary: Mr. Harry Sawyerr - Former Minister of Education, Ghana and former Chair of the ADEA Bureau of Ministers

  Mr. Harry Sawyerr passed away on November 8, 2013 in Accra, Ghana at the age of 87. He was a renowned educationist, quantity surveyor, politician and statesman. He served as Minister of Education in Ghana from 1993 to 1997 and as Minister for Transport and Communication from 1979 to 1981...