Date: May 13, 2008
Time: 12:30pm - 4:00pm

New trends in education philanthropy and the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in schools middle-income and developing countries have given shape to diverse forms of public-private collaboration, creating opportunities to better serve the learning needs of diverse populations.

The goal of the first half session is to address issues on how to effectively use ICT in education by bringing perspectives from policymakers as well as from the private sector. The panel will discuss concrete examples these PPP have been successful and if these examples can be replicated and transferable inside the country and in different regions. The panel will discuss the challenging aspects to work with the government and the private sector.

The second half of the seminar will focus on the preliminary findings of the study, "The Role and Impact of Public-Private partnerships in Primary and Secondary Education", currently under development. The study will describe the best available evidence of the impact and scale of different types of Public-Private Partnerships on educational outcomes around the world and discuss the policy implications of the studies presented at the conference on PPPs that took place in June 2007.

Agenda

Speakers Bios

Dr. Reyes Tamez Guerra - was designated as the Nuevo Leon Secretary of Education in January 2007 and was appointed Secretary of Public Education by President Vicente Fox on December 1st, 2000. He served as rector of the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (UANL) between 1996 and 2000. During his administration as rector, he led a reform movement aimed at an integral betterment of the Institution. This has allowed the UANL to achieve high levels of development as measured by international indicators of quality. He undertook studies at both Master and Doctor of Science levels, in the field of Immunology at the National School of Biological Sciences of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) in Mexico City.

Vicky Colbert de Arboleda - Co-author and founder of the Escuela Nueva education model, worldwide known for its effectiveness in the improvement of quality of basic education; initiated in Colombia in the rural multigrade, it has been adapted to urban and migrant populations and has been adopted by 16 countries, reaching over 5 million children. She has developed, expanded and sustained this innovation from Escuela Nueva Foundation, an NGO she founded to ensure the quality and sustainability of the Model in Colombia and abroad. Recipient of national and international awards such as: Outstanding Social Entrepreneur of the Schwab Foundation, Leading Social Entrepreneur and Senior Fellow of Ashoka, World Technology Award in Social Entrepreneurship and the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.

Harry Anthony Patrinos is Lead Education Economist at the World Bank, where he leads the Economics of Education team. He specializes in all areas of education, especially school-based management, demand-side financing and public-private partnerships. He is the co-editor of the book, Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Human Development in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). He received a doctorate from the University of Sussex.

Felipe Barrera-Osorio is Senior Education Economist at the World Bank. He specializes in the areas of impact evaluation, education and poverty, with special emphasis on basic education, conditional cash transfer, public-private partnership, and user fees, among others. Mr. Barrera received a doctorate degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Michael Latham works at CfBT Education Trust. Over the past two decades he has worked in Asia, Africa and the USA/Caribbean in an operational and business development capacity. One of his key areas of work is in the area of Public Private Partnerships in Education. He has presented papers and conducted training in this field on behalf of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, the Institute for Development Studies, the World Bank Institute and Harvard University. As a member of the World Bank’s ‘Economics of Education Thematic Group’ he worked with the EdInvest team in the development of a Handbook and Toolkit on Non Government Participation in Education. He is currently engaged by the WB/IFC as the Technical Assistance Manager for the Private Education Support Projects in Ghana and Kenya.