This report is a product of an ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) seminar on the first external evaluations of quality assurance agencies, held in Paris in July 2008. The seminar took stock of the achieved reviews of agencies to learn lessons from these first outcomes and, hence, provided a platform for…

A summary of major concerns of UNESCO's Educational Innovation for Development program in six world regions is presented in this conference report. The conference included educational network participants from Asia, the Caribbean, Southeast Europe, the Arab States, Africa, and Central America. The program encourages innovative educational efforts…

An overview of 19 papers presented at the meeting indicates that countries in the Asia and Pacific region are aware of socioeconomic changes and the need for national educational systems to provide adequate responses to these changes. New personnel profiles and educational training programs are needed. Factors which will affect the development of…

Presented to the first session of the advisory committee on Regional Co-operation in Education in Asia and Oceania, this report summarizes the preparatory studies and reflections on the scope and design of the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) future programs, as discussed by a group in Bangkok in April, 1980.…

Educators from Holland and member countries of the Council of Europe attended a symposium on innovation in primary education in the Netherlands. Much of the discussion was based on the evaluation report, "Lessons from Practice: the Primary Education Act Reviewed." Participants evaluated initial, partial research results, and compared…

The Seventh Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) was devoted to a tripartite review of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) component of APEID. APEID had undertaken four development themes in its second cycle: universalization of education at early school levels and…

This working document suggests guidelines and strategies for the development of education in Africa during the 1990s. The first chapter, "Educational Development in Africa during the 1980s," identifies the following: the main educational challenges in the early 1980s and the responses proposed by the Conference of Ministers of Education…

The report of the Eighth Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) reviews APEID's activities for 1981-82 and proposed third-cycle program (1982-86), and includes group reports on universalization of primary education, promotion of scientific and technological creativity, and…

Papers designed to help build multidisciplinary training networks for rural development are collected in this document, an outgrowth of a regional training workshop attended by participants from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Thailand, and India. The six papers deal with the objectives of the workshop which were to:…

Program accomplishments for 1982-86 and plans for 1987-91 are summarized in this report. The third cycle (1982-86) program areas discussed are: (1) universalization of education (access to education at first level by both formal and nonformal means); (2) education for promotion of scientific and technological competence and creativity; (3)…

The report of the Ninth Regional Consultation Meeting on the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) reviews activities and progress for 1982-83 in eight program areas: (1) universalization of education (access to education at first level by both formal and nonformal means), (2) promotion of scientific and technological…