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This Colloquium offers an opportunity for debate and critical reflection on some of the key areas with which Michel Carton has been associated for much of his academic life. One of these has been the continuing trade-off between the global/international and the local/national trends, priorities, modalities and fashions in higher and technical education. In relation between the more developed and developing countries, development agencies have often been the carrier of this 'luggage' of trends and priorities. This global/local trade-off affects all levels of education and types of training, from early childhood to higher education and from apprenticeship to engineering training but also within these, it affects both the funding and the research priorities. Michel has been particularly concerned with these tensions in the field of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and of higher education.
Though it is not directly linked to the theme of this colloquium, a second enduring theme of Michel's work has been with the potential of international networking. He has applied his commitment to this in different ways.
First, he took a bold decision in the late 1980s that a degree of support to the formalisation of the NORRAG network, and of its bulletin, NORRAG News (www.norrag.org), would be valuable for NORRAG and for the Institut Universitaire d’Etudes du Développement (IUED) with which it would become associated. This is what the Chinese would call a win-win cooperation: people linked NORRAG and NORRAG News to a 'neutral' country, and to Michel Carton and Kenneth King who were advocates of a critical diversity of views. Twenty years later, NORRAG News is reaching more than 3000 members, and many more surfers.
Another aspect of Michel's networking concern was to be prepared, on behalf of NORRAG, to offer to run, at the request of the Swiss Development Cooperation, the Working Group for International Cooperation on Skills Development. From 1996 till 2008, Michel was primarily responsible for the success of this network. It drew together annually a very wide range of donors and “southern partners”, to discuss the latest issues and trends in TVET/Skills Development, under the chairmanship of academics.
Finally, Michel has been very active within the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), not only as the co-convenor with Kenneth King of the Working Group and Sub Committee on Training and Education, but also in the initiatives taken to establish an accreditation system for development studies’ programmes as well as an alternative development research evaluation system.
In these two areas, the global/local or the international/national, and the potential of critical knowledge sharing through networking, Michel has made a permanent mark.
PROGRAMME
13:45 – 14:00
INTRODUCTION
Jean-Luc Maurer, Professor, Graduate Institute
14:00 – 15:30
- TOWARDS GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE FRAMEWORKS ?
Chair: Ad Boeren, Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC), The Hague
Clubs, Associations and Networks in the Face of Globalisation
Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh and NORRAG
Growing Influence of Private Actors in Higher Education in Brazil
Claudio de Moura Castro, Positivo, Belo Horizonte
The Political Economy of Academic Journals: Writing the "Right" Things, the "Right" Way?
Simon McGrath, University of Nottingham
Facing Local Realities: Some Questions About the Relevance of Global Frameworks
Enrique Pieck, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
15:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15 ‘
- BEST PRACTICE IN GLOBAL SKILLS AND NATIONAL AGENDAS
Chair: Carlos Fortin, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton
Quality Skills Development in South Africa ? The lessons from 1990-2010
Adrienne Bird, Department of Higher Education and Training, Pretoria
Tertiary Non University Education in Latin America
Claudia Jacinto, Red Educación, Trabajo e Inserción Social en América Latina (RedEtis), International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), UNESCO, Buenos Aires
Basic Education and Skills Development: Challenges in Bangladesh and Way Forward
Manzoor Ahmed, Brac Institute of Educational Development (BU-IED), Dhaka
Skills’ Redistribution and International Mobility
Jean-Baptiste Meyer, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier
17:15 – 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 – 19:00
- INTERNATIONALISATION VERSUS ADAPTATION IN SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Chair: Kathryn Touré, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Dakar
African Perspectives for Rethinking International Engagements
Abedayo Olukoshi, United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP), Dakar
Adapting to ‘African’ Realities Versus International Outcomes
Peter Kallaway, University of Cape Town
Are European Frameworks International ?
Henning Melber, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala
Michel Carton, Retired Professor, Graduate Institute and NORRAG, Geneva
For more information and registration, please contact: mariejo.duc@graduateinstitute.ch
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