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Namibia Open Learning Network (NOLNet) with InWEnt -- Capacity Building International Germany—launched two regional e-learning courses: e-Learning in practice and e-Learning development and implementation. These offer e-Learning skills development through on-line and blended learning.
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Professionals from Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda are among those taking part in the courses. Others are from Egypt, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia. The e-Learning in practice course is designed for those wanting to specialize in a particular area of e-learning such as e-Learning management, instructional design, e-Learning course production or e-Learning facilitation. The course on e-Learning development and implementation is more comprehensive and designed for e-Learning managers seeking the gist of all aspects of e-learning aspects from instructional design, content development, e-learning technology, interactively, tutoring and support of virtual learning communities and e-Learning management..
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Focus on Multilingual Education |
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The East Africa Working Group on Multilingual Education met in Nairobi on 11 June 2008. Nationhood, pedagogy and policy were among the topics discussed. Based in Nairobi, the Working Group is comprised of representatives from universities, non-governmental organizations, government education offices and UNESCO.
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The Nairobi meeting of some 18 scholars and specialists was characterized by both energy and vision, as the group explored concrete ways to influence the language and education situation in Kenya and in the East Africa region more broadly. UNESCO commissioned the Working Group to develop a discussion paper on language and education issues in Kenya, for use with policy makers and community leaders alike. This paper will be available in late 2008.
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World Day Against Child Labour - 12 June 2008 |
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Kenya's Ministry of Labour and Human Resource Development will stage a national rally in Kilifi District, Coast Province, to mark World Day Against Child Labour. Kilifi District is semi-arid with a large number of children out of school. Early marriage, poor participation of girls in school, sex tourism and sexual exploitation of children are key issues.
Uganda's Minister of Gender Labour and Social Development along with the Minister of Education and Sports, International Rescue Committee and the Combating Exploitation of Child Labour through Education Initiative (KURET) will engage in a public dialogue on
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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY - 5 June 2008 |
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Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy is the theme of this year's World Environment day, 5 June. Climate change is becoming the defining issue of our era and UNEP is asking countries, companies and communities to focus on greenhouse gas emissions and how to reduce them.
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Call for nominations - 2008 International Literacy Prizes |
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UNESCO’s Member States are invited to submit projects and programs for the 2008 International Literacy Prizes. The theme is “Literacy and Health”, with accent on epidemics, in keeping with the focus of the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD) for 2007-2008. Literacy Prizes will reward work tackling disease prevention, care and treatment through literacy.
Literacy remains an elusive target: some 774 million adults lack minimum literacy skills; one in five adults is still not literate (two thirds of them are women) and 72 million children are out of school who are vulnerable to infection from communicable diseases.
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Global Education Alliance comes to Rwanda |
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A promising new education sector pilot program is set to promote 21st century skills needed for success of Rwanda’s emerging knowledge economy. The program is brought to Rwanda by the Global Education Alliance, a new venture of the Global Education Initiative (GEI).
Global Education Alliance is a multi-stakeholder partnership for education created with UNESCO, private companies - AMD, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Goldman Sachs – and the Education For All Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI). Rwanda is the first country to pilot the multi-stakeholder alliance.
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UGANDA CELEBRATES EFA GLOBAL ACTION WEEK 2008 |
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Uganda staged its key event for this year's Global Action Week at Ntinda School for the Deaf on 24 April 2008. The theme was ‘Quality education for all to end exclusion’ with special focus on people with disabilities.
The gathering brought together the Minister of Education and Sports, Ministry of Education Commissioners for Pre-primary and Primary Education, Director
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Literacy Adult Basic Education, Chairperson Uganda National Teachers Union (UNATU), Director FAWE, National EFA Coordinator, education partners, pupils and members of the general public. There was a lively march past, exhibition including handicrafts made by children with special learning needs and speeches. People were dressed in colorful T-shirts bearing the theme of the day with logos of UNESCO’s and FAWE.
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Public Rally at Pumwani Grounds - End Exclusion Now! |
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Some 800 learners from 18 different schools in the nearby Starehe constituency of Nairobi, together with other community groups and various representatives from the Ministry of Education, development partners, stakeholders, NGO’s, the civil society, politicians and the media joined in the world’s biggest lesson to mark this years Global Action week.
To mark this years theme: “Quality Education to End Exclusion Now”
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a public rally organized by Kenya’s Elimu Yetu Coalition (EYC) to highlight and lobby the issues of quality and inclusion and to remind the Government of Kenya, and politicians of their promise to achieve EFA by 2015.
Learners recited poems, acted out short plays and sang songs in praise of free primary education that was began in 2003. The young learners also told of the challenges and issues facing education in Kenya today such as exclusion due to disability, conflicts, gender, poverty, child Labour.
Education partners appealed for more education interventions for out of school youth and adults calling upon government and in particular the Ministries of Youth Affairs and Sports, and Gender and Children to take action.
A major highlight and plea to the government especially the Ministry of Finance was to increase the allocation of the budget to the Ministry of Education so as to fight the vices of exclusion. The representatives of the Ministry of Education promised to pass the message to the Minister of Finance.
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National Conference on Youth and Adult Learning 24-25 April 2008 |
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Education for youth and adults is an integral part of
Kenya ’s commitment to basic education.
Kenya embraced the Dakar Framework of Action including the goals of meeting the learning needs of young people and adults and improve the youth and adult literacy rate by 50% by 2015.
The policy discussion around youth and adult learning is
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Public lecture – Options for addressing root causes of exclusion |
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Quality primary education remains, for the most part, a pipe dream for close to 60% of children in urban settlements – majority living in slums. A myriad of institutional challenges currently inhibit the attainment of legal and policy commitments made toward quality education for all. Concern Worldwide along with the Global Campaign for Education and Daraja Civic Initiatives Forum organized the public lecture featuring, Professor Patrick Obonyo Digolo, University of Nairobi; Commissioner Wambui Kimathi, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, and Dr Susan Nkinyangi, Senior Education Adviser, UNESCO-Nairobi.
A large and diverse crowd of people attended many of whom are working on slum education initiatives.
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The Education For All 2008 Global Monitoring Report – Education for All BY 2015- Will we make it? was launched.
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>> KICC EFA GMR 2008 - Presentation Susan Nkinyang
>> No child to be excluded from Free Primary Education
>> Draft plan of action B
>> EFA Week Kenya 2008 education campaign news coverage
>> EFA week kenya basic education
>> EFA Week Kenya 2008 open letter
>> EFA Week Kenya 2008 free primary education
For the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2008, summary, regional overviews, statistics and additional resources go to:: www.efareport.unesco.org
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Launch of Chanuka Express- Learning for Sustainable Living |
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UNESCO leading the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development movement has teamed up with implementing partner Jacaranda Designs and other public and private partners to deliver an innovative youth-focused educational mobile outreach program -- Chanuka Express. This one-of-a-kind program—meaning “sharpen up, shape up”— blends the goals of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) with the curriculum-based practical life
skills content of the monthly Young African Express — Kenya’s
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only educational newspaper published exclusively for young people and approved by the Kenya Institute of Education.
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>>Chanuka Opening Statement - Susan Nkinyangi
>>Fact sheet-YAE
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EFA Global Action Week 2008 |
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Kenya marked this year’s EFA Global Action Week 2008 with an array of events, launches, a national conference on youth and adult learning, public lectures. Extensive TV and radio coverage publicized the EFA activities. |
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Youth prepare for Chanuka Express -- Learning for Sustainable Living |
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Enthusiastic talent youths have been trained to facilitate the new Chanuka Express educational outreach programme. Chanuka Express is contributing to the goals of the Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) by facilitating learning about sustainable living among young people living in city slums.
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Kenya National e-Learning Centre celebrates launch at UN in Nairobi |
Kenya Institute of Education’s Director, Mrs. Lydia Nzomo, presided over the launch of the Steering Committee set up for the
Kenya
e-Learning Centre (KeLC), a multi-stakeholder undertaking spearheaded by the e-Government Directorate in the Office of the President. KeLC is establishing a conducive environment for use and application of innovative ICTs to enhance learning, efficiency and improved service delivery across the various sectors of
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’s economy. This is in line with the government’s new ICT policy that commits to promoting ICT in education at primary, secondary, tertiary and community levels by developing ICT curricula and ensuring that teachers and trainers possess the requisite skills.
KeLC hopes to become the leading centre of e-Learning solutions and a centre of convergence for sharing of expertise, services and training. KeLC partners include: UNESCO, UNEP, Intel Corporation, InWent, Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) among others.
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For more information contact:
Andrew Gakiria, Senior Policy Analyst
Directorate of e-Government – Kenya
Email: Gakiria@ealearning.net
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Bringing Internet Connectivity to Lamu Schools |
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A Computer Lab with Internet connectivity has been set up at Mkomani girls' primary school on Lamu Island, Kenya, a World Heritage Site. The project was funded through a special donation from UNESCO's Director-General, Mr Koichiro Matsuura. This important experience from the Lamu World Heritage Site can point the way to other schools in other communities in Kenya, the region and beyond on how they can tap the new information and communication technologies. |
| Lamu’s Mkomani Computer Lab with its fast Internet connection will be serving a cluster of neighboring schools with each institution equip with its own fully functioning Computer Lab at reasonable cost. The Lamu experience has further demonstrated that success attracts partnerships. The British Council - Connecting Classrooms and the Island Children’s Fund have come on board. |
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New strategic partnership - UNESCO and Kenya e-Learning Centre (KeLC) |
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| UNESCO and the Kenya e-Learning Centre (KeLC) have joined hands to set up with the Department of Adult Education an adult learning resource center in downtown Nairobi. The new learning centre will offer information and communication technologies to youth and adult learners to facilitate and encourage learning and skills training. Introduction of ICT is expected to boost enrolment in the adult and continuing education program. The learning resource centre will serve as a demonstration site. |
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Kenya e-Learning Centre (KeLC) is a coordinating and information sharing mechanism serving e-Learning stakeholders throughout the country. KeLC is a 'one stop shop' for external partners wishing to enter into collaborative partnerships with e-Learning stakeholders. Some of KeLC partners include: Ministry of Education, inWEnt, GeSCI, UNESCO, UNEP and CISCO.
Visit: http://www.e-government.go.ke/
Contact: andrew.gakiria@kenya.go.ke
For more information on UNESCO-KeLC contact: e.ntalami@unesco.org
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