Secondary Education Reform
and Youth Policy (SERYP)
Workplan Report
UNESCO, Paris
Renovation of Secondary Education
Global Information Networks
In Education (GINIE)
Institute for International
Studies in Education (IISE)
Maureen W. McClure
University of
Pittsburgh
27 September 2000
This report describes the work of the GINIE project from September 1999 to September 2000.
1. August 1999: Met with Armoogum Parsuramen at conference sponsored by USAID’s Human Capacity Development Center (HCD) in Washington, D.C. Discussed for website that serves as interactive clearinghouse and policy forum for UNESCO Member States.
· Need for UNESCO-based website:
* To coordinate Interagency efforts for secondary and youth education reform
1. Each Member of the Interagency consultation and interested UNESCO Member States would receive their own template page. This way organizations and Member States could share their good work with each other and with donor agencies.
2. If a member organization or Member State already had a secondary education reform website the template could simply create a link to it.
* To engage in policy reform dialogue with Member States early in the Inter-agency reform process
1. Regional, subregional, national offices and MOEs need the ability to share documents and dialogue. This is necessary for realistic reforms to be adopted.
* To construct space on the Internet where documents from multiple agencies are stored- UNESCO’s own database, for security reasons, is limited to its own documents
* To extend Intranet coordination across UNESCO regional, sub-regional, and National Commission offices related to secondary and youth education reform
* To design website with two types of access
1. Public access to general audiences, journalists and teachers
2. Members access for pre-publication task committee work and document review
2. September-October 1999: Initiated draft plan for site and review
· Designed the site with materials from the Interagency Consultation Group meeting in June 1999 (documents on the meeting, separate pages and forum for each Task Committee)
· Met with M Parsuramen, Richard Halperin and Colin Power about the site design at UNESCO, Paris
* Discussed need for regional and sub-regional approach
* Formal style of website considered appropriate for senior policy dialogue
· Agreed to focus on hypertext review of post-cold war initiatives by major multi-lateral and bi-lateral organizations
· Agreed to coordinate efforts with Philip Hughes
3. January 2000: Submitted draft site and review
· Updated the Members’ Section with meeting documents in preparation of the 2000 February Interagency Consultation Group meeting
* Participants attending February 7-8, 2000 Meeting
1. Annotated Agenda (Html, Pdf)
· Created a forum using USAID’s Non-Policy Paper (from January to April 2000)
· Created a teen forum (from January to September 2000)
* UNICEF offered to work with UNESCO on teen forum through its Voices of Youth
· Added Organization Policy Review papers by GINIE Director and graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh
Multi-lateral Organizations
Ø UNESCO
Ø Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Ø Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Ø Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Bi-lateral Organizations
Ø UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Ø Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
Ø Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ø French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ø Updated
Members’ site materials
Added Mark Bray’s paper: Privatization of secondary education: issues and policy implications
Information Paper from the June 1999 meeting
English Version Html Pdf MsWord
French Version Html Pdf MsWord
· Added policy and program-oriented annotated links to public site:
Education
for All: Country Reports
Country reports on Education for All are available on line with the most in-depth assessment of basic education ever undertaken. The reports can be search by country and by region.
Global Economic
Prospects and the Developing Countries 2000
This is a World Bank slide show about the recovery from the financial crisis and the prospects for developing countries. You can view slide show in several formats.
The Commonwealth of Learning is an international organization created by Commonwealth Heads of Government to encourage the development and sharing of open learning/distance education resources and technologies. COL is helping developing nations improve access to quality education and training.
The Gateway to Educational Materials
This page is the key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet.
UNESCO - Learning without Frontiers
Learning Without Frontiers (LWF) key concept is open learning environment. Several activities aim at developing clear ideas and directions that help to understand what is meant with open learning environment.
Working Group for International
Co-operation in Vocational and Technical Skills Development
This informal working group consists of bi and multilateral donor agencies and international organizations involved in international assistance to vocational and technical skills development. Its previous meeting papers are available.
· Added annotated youth links to the site:
Bosnian youth create MTV-style video clips describing a day in their life.
The UNESCO Cyber-Readers' Club is an interactive, Internet-based website which provides instantaneous access to great literature from all cultures of the world to readers around the globe.
The World Links
for Development (WorLD) program links students and teachers in secondary
schools in developing countries with students and teachers in industrialized
countries for collaborative research, teaching and learning programs via the
Internet.
· Added the translator function
4. Demonstrated draft site and review in Paris - February 2000
5. Updated site based on suggestions – March through July 2000
· Updated the February meeting documents provided by Philip Hughes
· Richard Halperin requested removal of translator functions
* Said that UNESCO will provide translations for site
* Armoogum Parsuramen reviewing request as of April 2000
· Added Organization and Country templates
*
Organizations
2. DFID
3. ILO
4. The Commonwealth of Learning
5. UNDP
6. UNESCO
7. WORLD BANK
· Created Web boards for Members’ Section to give members individual discussion forums for each task committee. Web boards were requested because Members were concerned about too much e-mail in their boxes. They wanted to receive occasional notices to direct their attention, but mostly they wanted a place where they could log on quickly to work with their task group and review pre-publication documents. Web boards were created for each task force and for special interest topics. They included:
* Reform Guidelines and Responses
* Regional and Sub-regional Review papers
* Website
* The Relationship between General Secondary and Vocational Education
* Major Issues in Curriculum Reform-Including Citizenship
* The Role and Conditions of Teachers
* The Role of Information Technology in Extending Access and Equity
* The Role of Distance Education in Extending Access and Equity
* The Role of Non Formal Education in Extending Access and Equity
* Organizations, Form and Management to Enhance Relevance and Efficiency
* Investigation of Common Reform Approaches
* Partnerships with NGOs for Public Participation and Decentralization
6. March 2000: Presented SERYP concept at the Comparative International Education Society (CIES) meeting in Austin, Texas actively encouraging scholars to become interested in secondary education reform research
· The discussions on secondary education reform were very successful. There was considerable interest and an agreement to continue to raise visibility at the meeting next year in Washington. More sessions would be devoted to secondary education with a special emphasis on policy-oriented case studies
7. June-August 2000: Constructed proposal for additional funding for next steps
· Added easy upload function to Members’ site
· Discussed site and its future with new UNESCO, Paris, counterpart, Rupert Maclean
· Submitted revised joint proposal to USAID
8. Consultation meeting postponed until February or March 2001
9. Additional USAID funding request approved for next steps September 2000 to September 2001
10. Upgraded site September 2000 http://ginie1.sched.pitt.edu/seryp/
· Reviews http://ginie1.sched.pitt.edu/seryp/members/review1.html