PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER COLCLOUGH (founding Director, UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report on Education for All): ‘Education for All at Mid-Term: Can it be Achieved by 2015?'
On February 9, 2010 at 6:00PM - 7:30PM, at Lecture Room 1S3, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge (http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/about/reachus/)
Christopher Colclough is Commonwealth Professor of Education and Development at Cambridge University and Director of the newly established Centre for Education and International Development at the University. A development economist, he has published extensively on problems of human resources and development in low and middle-income countries. He was the founding Director (2002-5) at UNESCO of the Global Monitoring Report on Education for All – an independent annual report which charts global progress towards the six ‘Dakar’ goals and the two Millennium Development goals for education and gender parity.
He is currently leading a consortium of seven research institutions, from five countries, in a Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty’ (RECOUP). Earlier research, as a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, included the design and direction of a multi-country research programme on gender and primary schooling in Africa, work on the linkages between primary education and economic development, on education financing, on development theory and on economic adjustment in Africa. Amongst advisory assignments for many governments and agencies, he served as consultant to the ANC and subsequently to the Department of Education in South Africa (1994-2000), providing advice on financing the new government’s education policies.
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I do agree with you Sela. Even when the aid reaches its destination in remote places in developing countries it is usually neither stable nor sustained which makes the whole aid project fragile and reaching nothing beyond the surface.
What do you think?
Any aid given hardly reaches non-aid projects which are often in remote places where it is most needed. Education for all in 2015 is very ambitious unless it is acknowledged that all assistance does not go beyond roadside villages and towns.