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The Role of International Cooperation in Education and Training for Work in Latin America
Concerning the particularities of international cooperation in education and training for work in the region, the seminar will be focused on the following questions:
• What are the main characteristics of the recent economic, political and social context of education and training for work in the region?
• Which have been the main trends in terms of national policies in the field of education and training for work?
• What have been the approaches and actors in international cooperation for education and training for work in the past 10 – 15 years in Latin America?
• What has been the role of international cooperation specifically in the following two key subjects:
a) The development of national training institutions;
b) The disadvantaged youth programs?
• What types of relationship have been developed between donors and beneficiaries in the implementation of the programs?
• Which are the new forms of cooperation that have developed in the region, especially triangular and horizontal cooperation?
• Which are the approaches and debates in the region concerning monitoring, evaluation and dissemination strategies?
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What room for skills development in "post-primary education"?
As more and more co-operation agencies look beyond universal primary or basic education, a new terminology has appeared in the discourses of several of them: “post-primary education” or “post-basic education and training”. This switch, or diversification, from the term “secondary education” to “post-primary (or basic) education” suggests that post-EFA might cover a wider scope than merely secondary school. The meeting of the Working Group (WG) in Paris aims at exploring the extent to which “post-primary education” includes components of skills development:
- What do co-operation agencies mean by “post-primary education” or “post-basic education and training”? What is included or not, and what room is given to skills development?
- Does the term “post-primary education” cover the same contents for different agencies?
- How does this new terminology resonate with the language used in partner countries?
- What lessons can be learned from the activities of agencies in “post-primary education”, in relation with skills development?
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Skills Development Policies and International Co-operation in East and South-East Asia
The Hong Kong meeting will be the first regional meeting of the WG. A second regional meeting will take place in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in May 2007.
The main objectives of the regional meetings are:
- to deal with the issue of Skills Development (SD) policies and
international co-operation in that field from a regional point
of view;
- and to get closer to international co-operation agencies who work in the region, both from the region itself and from outside.
The regional meetings are meant to enlarge the scope of agencies that participate to the WG. They represent an opportunity to contrast models of international co-operation in SD that have been mentioned during previous WG meetings with different models. |
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The background document prepared by the WG Secretariat on |
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