IIEP Strategic Seminars

Presented below are the themes and dates of all IIEP Strategic Seminars: 

October 2009

Education and the economic crisis: is education a victim or part of the solution?
Presented by Gregory Wurzburg, Senior Economist, Directorate for Education, OECD; Yaël Duthillleul, Technical Advisor, Council of Europe Development Bank; and N.V. Varghese, Head of Governance and Management in Education, IIEP.

May 2009

Why do impoverished children perform well in school?
Presented by Stephen P. Heyneman, Professor of International Education Policy at the Vanderbilt University

February 2009

Planning for change.The role of Medium-Term planning in
the policy-planning-budgeting chain - the preparation of the Egypt Strategic Education Plan
Presented by Dr. Klaus Bahr

January 2009

Improving the quality of Basic Education in Brazil: the role of teachers.
Presented by Abdeljalil Akkari, Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland

December 2008

Are there new challenges to educational planning?
Presented by Isabel Da Costa 

October 2008

Measuring the opportunity divide: schools and educational inequality
Presented by Albert Motivans and Yanhong Zhang, UNESCO Institute for Statistics

April 2008

Lifelong learning: an empty vessel?
Presented by Dr. Abrar Hassan, former Head of the Education and Training Policy Division, Directorate for Education, OECD.

 

February 2008

White knight or Trojan horse? The private sector and Education for All
by Alexandra Draxler.

 

January 2008

Improving school quality: Is leadership the cure-all?
Presented by Gaby Hostens, Director of International Education Policy, Ministry of Education, Flanders.

 

November 2007

A global model of very long term economic development
presented by Mr Diery Seck, Director of the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP),

 

May 2007

Access to the campus or access to knowledge?
The challenges of transforming higher education in South African
by Professor Michael Cross,

 

April 2007

How much does it cost to educate a child? And who pays? Benchmarking national efforts to finance universal primary education
by Albert Motivans

 

March 2007

Society, children, technology and self-organisation in education
by Sugata Mitra

 

February 2007

Distance Learning for Development: Achievements, Trends and Plans
Sir John Daniel, Commonwealth of Learning