AIU-HEEFA Bulletin No. 17

HEEFA Newsletter, No. 17, 15 March 2013
Linking the HE Community to EFA and related MDGs
http://www.heefa.net

I. IAU HEEFA Project
IAU Collaborative Workshops: A three-step activity to envision higher education for EFA locally
Call for Participation
The IAU is pleased to open the call for participation to all IAU Member institutions and organizations 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 HEEFA Reference Group on HEEFA. Interested to partner with IAU? Read the Call for Participation, Partnership Protocol and Application Form here.

Kenya Workshop
Organised for the first time in Anglophone Africa, IAU conducted its fourth workshop in Nairobi, Kenya (25-26 January 2013). Organised in collaboration with the University of Nairobi, an IAU Member, the Workshop brought together 30 representatives from the University of Nairobi and Kenyatta University, both Ministries of Education and Higher Education being represented by several Directors, and with a strong presence from civil society and UN agencies (UNESCO and UNICEF). The Workshop ended with the validation of an action plan composed of three parts, proposing new ways for collaboration, mobilisation and follow-up. The Director of Basic Education has agreed to convene a meeting with the participants at the Ministry of Education in follow-up to the Action Plan.

Workshop Final Reports: Nepal and Kenya
Final Reports for the two IAU Workshops held in Kathmandu, Nepal and Nairobi, Kenya are both now online. The Reports were validated by participants. You can read the recommendations made; the results from the discussion groups on how research, teaching and community service can better contribute to achieving EFA in the respective countries; the presentations; and learn who the participants were.

• Final Report: IAU HEEFA Nepal Workshop
• Final Report: IAU HEEFA Kenya Workshop

Follow-up to Workshops
The outcomes from the HEEFA Workshop held in Nepal were presented by the Head of Global Action Nepal to feed discussions at the Asia Pacific Regional Consultation on Post EFA 2015 Agenda (Bangkok, Thailand, February 2013).
http://www.unescobkk.org/education/educationbeyond2015/

IAU HEEFA Project Website
The IAU website for the HEEFA Project has been updated with easy-to-find information about the different HEEFA projects conducted by IAU over the past decade, the HEEFA Portal, the IAU HEEFA Reference Group and the various projects’ outcomes. Have suggestions or comments to improve the site? Please send them to: n.kymlicka@iau-aiu.net

II. News from the IAU HEEFA Reference Group
Alejandro Chao Barona (Mexico), Director of the Directorate of Community Development, University Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, was instrumental in organizing follow-up activities to the HEEFA Workshop held in 2010, which included annual review meetings and the development of the 2012-2020 HEEFA Action Plan. The Secretary of Education for the State of Morelos approved the HEEFA Action Plan, integrating it into the regional government’s education plan. Read Chao’s presentation made at the 2012 IAU General Conference for further details.
http://www.slideshare.net/IAU_Past_Conferences/cs-ii3-a-chao-barona  
Ad Boeren (Netherlands), senior policy officer at the Netherlands Cooperation Agency in Higher Education, has published a paper, Partnership and collaboration with African Institutions: a perspective from the North, featured in the second issue of the Chronicle of African Higher Education.
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III. Other News of Interest (December 2012-March 2013)
International news
Higher Education recognised by Education Ministers and international EFA stakeholders: The Final Statement of the high-level Global Education for All Meeting (GEM), organised by UNESCO (Paris, France, November 2012), “recognizes that higher education contributes to the achievement of the EFA goals and the MDGs”.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002186/218695e.pdf
New Head of Higher Education at UNESCO: Paulina Gonzalez-Pose has been appointed Chief of the Higher Education Section.
Post-2015 EFA: Education has been voted as the top priority for the post-2015 agenda by people worldwide in the UN First Global Survey for a Better World. Results feed the High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda to be presented the UN General Assembly in September 2013.
http://www.un-ngls.org/IMG/pdf/MY_World_Report_Monrovia.pdf
Articles/publications
‘One Billion Rising’ – Universities must play a role; by Brenda Gourley, former IAU Board Member
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130305104035569
Toward Universal Learning: What Every Child Should Learn, Learning Metrics Task Force First Report
http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/02/learning-metrics
Blogs
The World We Want: United Nations thematic online consultation on the post-2015 agenda for MDGs
http://www.worldwewant2015.org/

IV. Where to Advance Higher Education for EFA
Calls for participation
Community engagement: US higher education institutions are invited to apply for the Carnegie Foundation’s 2015 Community Engagement Classification. Deadline: 15 April
http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/descriptions/community_engagement.php
Community engagement: The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) is accepting proposals for the 2013 Conference: Transforming and Sustaining Communities Through Partnerships. Deadline: 1 April 
http://cumuonline.org/conference/2013callforproposals.aspx
Community engagement: Papers are being accepted for the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Annual Conference. Deadline: 12 April
http://www.researchslce.org/conferences/
Innovation: The 2013 WISE Awards are accepting nominations to award innovative education projects serving positively a community or society. Deadline: 31 March 
http://www.wise-qatar.org/content/2013-wise-awards
Teacher education: The Francophone network of teacher training institutions (RIFEFF) is accepting papers for its biannual conference on The Stake of of the Francophone University (La francophonie universitaire en question). Deadline: 25 April
http://www.rifeff.org/colloque2013/
Selected events (March-June 2013)
18-19 March: Global Meeting on Education, Dakar, Senegal
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/education-events/?tx_browser_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=14565&cHash=6d5288185d
20-22 March: Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) 2013 Annual Conference: Who and What are Universities for? Local Communities, Global Competitiveness and the Part-time Student, Durham, UK
http://www.uall.ac.uk/2013-annual-conference
24-29 March: Education Without Borders biennial conference, Bridging the Gap: Innovative Solutions to Global Educational Challenges. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
http://ewb.hct.ac.ae/
24-26 April: XI Congress of University and Development Cooperatio, University and Human Development, Valencia, Spain
http://www.sextocongresocud.es/
13-15 May: Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi) 6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education, Let’s Build Transformative Knowledge to Drive Social Change, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.guninetwork.org/guni.conference/2013-guni-conference
11-13 June: International Association for the Improvement of Mother Tongue Education (IAIMTE) 2013 International Colloquium, Literacies and Effective Learning and Teaching for All, Paris, France
http://145.18.11.72/projecten/gert/iaimte/conferencesregistration2013.asp http://www.creteil.iufm.fr/evenements/9eme-colloque-international-iaimte/
12-15 June: CU 2013 Community-University Expo, Engaging Shared Worlds, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada
http://www.cuexpo2013.ca/Pages/default.aspx
15-17 July: Engagement Australia Next Steps, Co-producing Knowledge for Social Impact, Melbourne, Australia
http://engagementaustralia.org.au/next-steps-conference/2013-conference/

The HEEFA Team
Next issue: 15 June 2013