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2006
| Sep 14-15
Delhi, India | Regional Conference on Education, Training, and the Knowledge Economy in South Asia
With support from the DFID K&S Fund Knowledge for Development Program, the World Bank is co-sponsoring a "Regional Conference on Education, Training and the Knowledge Economy in South Asia" scheduled to be held in September 2006 in India. The objectives of the conference are to: (a) better understand the skill implications of globalization and the Knowledge Economy; (b) share the findings of the recent analysis in the region and international good practice experiences; (c) address the many debates about how best to reform education and training systems; and (d) catalyze South Asia countries to come up with integrated cross-cutting strategies for addressing the challenges of globalization and the Knowledge Economy. Policymakers, private sector representatives and other stakeholders from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are expected to attend. | Sep 10-12
Cairo, Egypt | International Conference New Directions in Technical Vocational Education & Training Reform in the Middle East and North Africa Region | Jun 14-15
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
| Seminar: Role of Highly Skilled Expatriates in the Reform of National Innovation Systems
With the funding from DFID K&S Fund Knowledge for Development Program, WBI has completed a study on the role of expatriate professionals in the transition of developing countries to knowledge-based societies. The workshop will disseminate the key findings of the book and place diaspora polices in context by covering the policy and institutional framework of national systems of innovation. The workshop will bring together top policy makers and practitioners from the Southern Cone countries and Mexico working on innovation thereby assuring synergy between a broader discussion of reform of national innovation systems and the role of expatriates as an entry point for such reform. The workshop will focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, all featuring large expatriate communities and currently preparing diaspora initiatives as part of efforts to strengthen their national innovation systems. | Jun 13-15
Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso | Conference on Higher Education for Francophone Africa's Development: Better understanding the keys of success
The Africa region is organizing this event in partnership with the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Burkina Faso and the Conference of Rectors CRUFAOCI. This conference is based on the analysis of case studies that show successful examples of reforms and/or innovative institutions, the experience of which could be useful to the whole community of higher education professionals and policy makers. The objective of the conference is to acknowledge, support and accelerate a positive process of change for adapted, strengthened, sustainable and diversified higher education systems in Francophone Africa.
| Jun 9
Santiago,
Chile | Conference on Lifelong Learning: The New Challenge in Human Capital
Policy development in Chile has taken a rather sectoral approach with a stronger focus on the school system and tertiary education at the university level. In fact, post-secondary vocational education, labour force training, skills certification systems, and institutional and financial arrangements supporting lifelong learning remain almost untouched topics within the policy research and development field. This situation either inhibits policy decisions and/or limits the impact of isolated reforms not based on a sound rationale. The overall objective of this activity is to stimulate policy development and discussion on Lifelong Learning, with a special focus on Post-secondary Vocational Education and Training in Chile. With DFID funding, the Bank financed a research study on Lifelong Learning in Chile that can be found here. | May 16-17
Saint Lucia | Caribbean Forum for Lifelong Learning
On May 16 and 17 2006, a Caribbean Forum on Lifelong Learning took place in Saint Lucia, hosted by the World Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank, the UK Department for International Development (DfID), and the Caribbean Association of National Training Agencies (CANTA). The Forum was organized by the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). The purpose of the Forum was to discuss lifelong learning policies that would (i) better align the output of the education and training system with labor market needs; and (ii) improve portability of skills and diplomas within the Caribbean. The forum brought together more than 50 key persons representing Ministries of Education (four ministers participated), education and training institutions, regional institutions, and donors. | June 5-7
Issyk-Kul,
Kyrgyzstan | Central Asia Tertiary Education Workshop
The third workshop of the Central Asia Tertiary Education Country Case Studies takes place from June 5 to 7 in Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan | Apr 17-18
Almaty, Kazakhstan | Central Asia Tertiary Education Workshop
The second workshop of the Central Asia Tertiary Education Country Case Studies takes place from April 17 to 18 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. | Mar 2-4
Samarkand, Uzbekistan | Central Asia Tertiary Education Workshop
The first workshop of the Central Asia Tertiary Education Country Case Studies took place from March 2 to 4 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The objectives of the workshop were to familiarize the country teams with and fine tune the framework that they will be using for the preparation of country case studies, and to reach agreements on how the reports will be produced. These two objectives were fully realized during the two-day workshop. | | | 2005
| Dec 4-6
Cairo, Egypt | Regional Conference on Job Creation, Skills and Labor Markets in MENA
The two and a half day Middle East and North Africa (MNA) regional conference, funded jointly by the MNA Region and by a DFID grant to WBIFP, was organized to focus policy attention on what is recognized to be the most pressing issue in the MENA region: high and rising youth unemployment, lagging job creation, and the imperative of raising and sustaining high economic growth rates over the next 2 decades to create 90 million new jobs (almost double current levels) to meet population growth. | Oct 6-7
Armenia, Quindío, Colombia | LAC Regional Conference: Cycles in Tertiary Education: Integrating Technical and University Education with Lifelong Learning | Official Website (in Spanish)
This conference debated the benefits, challenges, tools and policy choices related to a more integrated tertiary education system in Latin America and the Caribbean. It provided examples and discussed how integration of tertiary education and standardized cycles bring challenges in defining competences of graduates, establishing qualification frameworks, redesigning of curricula, developing agreements with new external partners, elaborating certification and exam mechanisms, and assuring quality of providers. | Oct 2-4
Dubrovnik, Croatia | Second ECA Education Conference
The 2nd ECA Education Conference was organized by The World Bank and co-hosted by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports and the University of Zagreb. One hundred and sixty-five representatives from 20 European and Central Asian countries attended the conference, including ministers from participating countries and international experts in tertiary education. The main topics of the conference were: Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education; Financing Higher Education; Linkages between Higher Education, Research and Industry. Additional information:
http://mt.educarchile.cl/mt/jjbrunner/archives/2005/10/chile_higher_ed.html
| Apr 26-27
Buenos Aires, Argentina | Global Workshop on Migration of Talent and Diasporas of the Highly Skilled
A two-day global workshop on leveraging Diasporas of the Highly Skilled was held in Buenos Aires on April 26-27, 2005. The workshop focused on the design of public policies to leverage expatriate skills abroad for the benefit of the countries of origin. It put a particular emphasis on facilitation of “brain circulation” rather than trying to reverse “brain drain.” The coverage of the workshop was global and our audience was practitioners rather than academics. The workshop discussed lessons of Diaspora initiatives, both successful and failed in a variety of countries: India, Colombia, South Africa, Scotland and focused more closely on design and future directions of on-going Diaspora initiatives (“networks of talent”) in Argentina, Chile and Mexico and other Latin American economies. | 
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