IAU-HEEFA Newsletter No. 18

HEEFA Newsletter, No. 18, 15 June 2013
Linking the HE Community to EFA and related MDGs
http://www.heefa.net

I. IAU HEEFA Project
IAU and Global Action Week. IAU solicited support through its membership by launching an information campaign to Faculties of Education and Teacher Education Centres to raise awareness of the direct link between higher education and EFA, in particular how higher education can improve children’s learning through quality teacher education. Read about activities undertaken at the Women’s University in Africa and the Centre of Excellence for Learning Diversity at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia here:

IAU Reference Group on HEEFA expands with 3 new members from the IAU Administrative Board: Marianne Granfelt, Secretary-General of the Association of Swedish Higher Education (SUHF), Remus Pricopie, Minister of Education of Romania, and Daniel Hernandez Ruiperez, Rector of the University of Salamanca in Spain.

Post 2015 Education Agenda. IAU is leading the organisation of the First NGO/UNESCO International Forum on Education, entitled Which Education Goals for Tomorrow’s Citizens of the World: Is Quality Enough? The event will be held on 23 September at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France and will bring perspectives from higher education and civil society to feed reflection on what next, post 2015.

Workshop Call for Participation to collaborate in organizing the IAU Collaborative Workshop: A three-step activity to envision higher education for EFA locally. The IAU plans to conduct 4 Workshops in 2013 and 2014. The Workshop is modeled from the four previous workshops and developed with the IAU Reference Group on HEEFA. Interested to partner with IAU? Read the Call for Participation and Partnership Protocol.

II. News from the IAU HEEFA Reference Group
Alice Sena Lamptey (Africa), Program Coordinator of the Working Group on Higher Education of the Association of the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), released news about the winners of the Education Research in Africa Award (EERA). Jointly sponsored by the African Development Institute of the African Development Bank, the EERA recognizes outstanding African scholars to institutionalize a culture of high quality and relevant educational research in African universities. http://www.adeanet.org/eraa/index.php/en/

Alejandro Chao Barona (Mexico), Director of the Directorate of Community Development, University Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, has been consolidating an outreach program whereby higher education students are engaged in basic education literacy in local communities for children and young and elderly adults and has launched a teacher education program in cooperation with the local Ministry of Education and the Red de Cooperación Interinstitucional, a local NGO regrouping higher education institutions with civil society.

III. Other News of Interest (March 2013-June 2013)
The Global Consultation on Education on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, held on 18-19 March in Dakar, Senegal, convened over 100 representatives from UN agencies, donors, academia and civil society organizations who agreed to put quality lifelong learning at the heart of the development agenda. Read Summary of Outcomes here. http://www.worldwewant2015.org/node/331403

The report from the UN High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda positions education as both a human right and the foundation for development.
Read full report: http://www.post2015hlp.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/UN-Report.pdf
React to report: http://www.worldwewant2015.org/www2015_trends_outcomes

The Council of the European Union adopted the Council Conclusions on the Social Dimension of Higher Education, inviting Member States to “encourage cooperation between education providers at all levels, including those providing non-formal and informal learning, and other relevant stakeholders”….and “to facilitate the development of outreach activities and lifelong learning opportunities”. http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/en/educ/137144.pdf

Ending the Hidden Exclusion: learning and equity in education post-2015, a report from Save the Children, demonstrates how research does and should feed education policy-making and planning. 
http://www.savethechildren.net/sites/default/files/libraries/Ending_the_hidden_exclusion_full_report.pdf

IV. Where to Advance Higher Education for EFA
Calls for Participation
Early childhood education. Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC) invites academics to submit article proposals for its annual publication ARNEC Connections on the theme: Early Childhood Development on the Global Agenda: Giving all Children Equal Opportunities for Lifelong Learning, Health and Success. Deadline: 1 July. Send to: secretariat@arnec.net
Education research. Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa (ERNWACA) is accepting papers for its fifth edition of the Journal on Educational Research in Africa (JERA). Deadline: 30 June
http://www.rocare.org/docs/Call_for_Paper_JERA_5th_Ed.pdf
Educational research. The French Scientific Review, Les Cahiers du Cerfu (Chercheurs et Recherches en Formation, Éducation et Enseignement) is accepting papers on the theme: Accompanying the change from nursery school to university: an emerging profession? (Accompagner le changement de la maternelle à l’université : un métier émergent ?). Deadline: 30 June
http://calenda.org/252091
Post-2015 Development Agenda. Read, watch, compare and react to the latest report from the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, via Tweet, Facebook. Deadline: 12 July
http://www.worldwewant2015.org/www2015_trends_outcomes
Quality learning. The 8th European Association for Practitioner Research in Improved Learning 2013 Conference is accepting submissions for any of its sessions. Deadline: 18 September
http://www.eapril.org/EAPRIL2013
Teacher education. Participate in a three-month online discussion on Teacher Professional Development in Crisis: How Can We Give Teachers in Fragile Contexts the Learning They Want and Need?, moderated by the International Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE).
http://www.ineesite.org/en/blog/teacher-professional-development-in-crisis-series
University-Community. The Australasian Journal of University-Community Engagement will be accepting papers for its bi-annual journal in July.
http://engagementaustralia.org.au/shared-resources/publications/journals/

Selected events (June-September 2013)
24-28 June: XV Comparative Education World Congress: New Times, New Voices, Buenos Aires, Argentina
http://wcces2013.com/english/
5-7 July: 49th UKLA International Conference, Literacy Policies and Practices: Diverse Perspectives in the 21st Century, Liverpool, UK
http://www.ukla.org/conferences/event/the_49th_ukla_international_conference1/
15-17 July: Engagement Australia, Next Steps: Co-producing Knowledge for Social Impact, Melbourne, Australia
http://engagementaustralia.org.au/next-steps-conference/2013-conference/
17-18 July: School of Education, Merrimack College 4th Annual Conference: Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education, Medford, (Mass.), USA
http://www.merrimack.edu/academics/education/center_for_engaged_democracy/future_of_community_engagement_in_higher_education/index.php
23 September: First NGO/UNESCO International Forum on Education: Which Education Goals for Tomorrow’s Citizens of the World: Is Quality Enough?, Paris, France

The HEEFA Team
Next issue: 15 September 2013