End of HEEFA Project

With the end of the Education for All Initiative comes the end of the HEEFA Project. From this date (January 2016), this website is no longer maintained and remains visible only as an archive of the HEEFA project.

The IAU thanks all its partners and contributors for the work done for the HEEFA Project and welcomes the new Education 2030 agenda in which universities are included.

Final Report released - From HEEFA to SDG4: Building on Achievements

• From HEEFA to SDG4 - Barcelona Report-Final .pdf

From HEEFA towards SDG4: Building on achievements - International Meeting 8 - 9 October 2015

• HEEFA FinalW - Draft Programme 200815.pdf

From HEEFA towards SDG4: Building on achievements - International Meeting 8 - 9 October 2015

The International Association of Universities (IAU) is organising an International Meeting “From HEEFA towards SDG4: Building on achievements” in cooperation with the Jaume Bofill Foundation that will take place on 8 and 9 October 2015 in Barcelona, Spain.

This important meeting both builds on the success of the IAU HEEFA project, acting as its concluding event and it bridges the outcomes of HEEFA to Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Education) and the UNESCO Framework for Action that is linked to it.  It will provide an opportunity for the higher education community to discuss the place and role of higher education in the international agenda for education.

The Arusha Declaration

The Declaration of the Learning Together For Change: Advancing Education For All through Higher Education meeting (the Arusha Declaration – www.learningforchange2015.com/arushadeclaration) organized by the Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF) with support from the IAU at the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology in Arusha, Tanzania from 26 to 28 April 2015 has been released. It is signed by 15 Swedish Vice-Chancellors. It was distributed and included in the IAU President’s statement at the World Education Forum 2015 which took place in Incheon, Republic of Korea, from 19 to 22 May 2015.

More on the Learning Together for Change Conference at: http://www.learningforchange2015.com/

Contact person at IAU: Isabelle Turmaine, Director for Information Projects and Services

UNESCO EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015 published

The freshly released GMR, “Education for All 2000-2015: achievements and challenges” shows that only a third of countries reached all of the measurable Education for All goals. Only half reached the most watched goal of universal primary education.

It also shows that two third more children were enrolled in primary school in 2012 than in 1999; by 2015, one in six children in low and middle income countries will not have completed primary school; almost two thirds of countries will have reached gender parity in primary education by 2015; 34 million more children have gone to school for the first time who would not have without the EFA goals.

Learning Together for Change: Advancing Education For All (EFA) through Higher Education

Just published! Final Report on IAU HEEFA-ICT4IAL Follow-up Seminar

The IAU has published the final report of the IAU HEEFA-ICT4IAL Follow-up Seminar held in Ankara, Turkey on 18-19 November 2014.

Organised by the IAU in collaboration with the Hacettepe University, the invitation-only Seminar reviewed the outcomes of the IAU HEEFA Project presented and discussed IAU’s work in an information-access project: the ICT for information accessibility in learning (ICT4IAL) Project.

For 2-days, the participants shared information and discussed the outcomes of the HEEFA capacity building workshops and reviewed the future of the IAU HEEFA Project; debated the role of higher education in a post-2015 education agenda; and provided feedback regarding the ICT4IAL project and the guidelines for e-accessibility for people with disabilities.

Amongst the 32 participants, representing 22 countries from Africa, Asia and Europe, were representatives from higher education and the IAU Reference Group on HEEFA who were involved in IAU HEEFA capacity building; representatives from ICT4IAL partners; e-accessibility experts from the higher education sector; faculty/students from the Hacettepe University; and representatives from UNESCO National Commission.

To read the Final Report click here

Contact: Isabelle Turmaine

• IAU HEEFA-ICT4IAL Final Report.pdf

EFA Steering Committee: October 2014 Meeting Report

The EFA Steering Committee was established in April 2012 whose task  is to discuss the development of the post-2015 education agenda. It consists of 19 members representing UNESCO Member States, the E-9 Initiative, EFA convening agencies (UNESCO, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and the World Bank), the OECD, the civil society and the private sector. The EFA SC advocates a more broader and comprehensive education agenda than what will be approved by the UNGA in 2015 and one that should be the reference point for the education community worldwide.

In preparation for the 2015 World Education Forum and the UNGA in September 2015, the EFA SC met on 9-10 October. It discussed necessary changes to the current Sustainable Development Goals and EFA SC texts, which included: The notion of “affordable” education in reference to higher education in the SDG text is unclear and must be removed. On the other hand, greater visbility needed to given to childhood care and education and teachers who should be considered as a target not as a means. How the post 2015 education agenda flows with the SDGs has yet to be defined.

• EFASCMeeting_Report_Oct2014.pdf

Call for Research Proposals: Strengthening Education Systems in East Africa

Online consultation: Post-2015 global education indicators

HEEFA-ICT4IAL Follow-up Seminar

Participants will: 

• review the outcomes of the IAU HEEFA capacity building workshops (conducted in Burkina Faso, India, Kenya, Mexico and Nepal) and the HEEFA Portal;
• discuss the follow-up in a post-2015 education agenda;
• provide feedback regarding a project on ICT for information accessibility in learning (ICT4IAL) and results of guidelines implemented by IAU Member institutions.

The expected outcomes are:

• A proposal for the IAU strategy in higher education;
• A proposal for the IAU position on higher education in a post-2015 education agenda;
• A list of ideas to improve the content and applicability of the draft e-accessibility guidelines;
• New accounts opened by all participants and data entered in the HEEFA Portal.

The Seminar is being organised in collaboration with the Hacettepe University, a IAU Member.  

Date: 18-19 November 2014
Location: Beytepe Campus, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

• 1 Preliminary programme of the Seminar.docx

Future of university teacher training under threat

The “viability” of university teacher training departments in the UK is under threat after the number of places allocated to higher education providers are being cut. Some universities, like Bath University and The Open University, have already shut down their post-graduate teacher education programs. Reduced places are a result of the UK government expanding its School Direct policy – which allows schools to select and recruit their own trainees.

Read the complete Times Higher Education article here.

Call for contribution: Learning, transmission, innovation at and through the University (ATIU)

Appel à contribution: Apprentissage du langage oral à l'école maternelle