Commonwealth launches education award
May 06, 2008
THE Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards 2009 were officially launched on 30 April 2008. Projects, programmes, policies, strategies or significant initiatives which have made a positive difference to the status and condition of primary school children, their teachers, or the education system
By Vision Reporter
THE Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards 2009 were officially launched on 30 April 2008. Projects, programmes, policies, strategies or significant initiatives which have made a positive difference to the status and condition of primary school children, their teachers, or the education system of a country may be submitted.
Entries must demonstrate relevance, measurable impact and effect, sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness of the contribution. They must also reflect community participation and contribution and the potential to be replicated.
Work submitted must also address one or more of the following six action areas:
Achieving Universal Primary Education;
Eliminating gender disparities in education;
Improving quality in education;
Using distance learning to overcome barriers;
Supporting education in difficult circumstances and
Mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on education systems.
The awards were formally launched by Dr. Zulkarnain Awang, Secretary-General for the Ministry of Education in Malaysia. Awang is also chair of the adjudication panel.
Malaysia is hosting the 17th Commonwealth Education Ministers Meeting in June 2009, when the winners of the Education Awards will be announced.
“These good practice awards give governments, civil society and non-governmental organisations the opportunity to showcase as well as share their good practices with other countries across the Commonwealth,†Awang said at the Secretariat’s headquarters in Marlborough House, London, UK.
Ministers of education first proposed the idea of the awards for good practices in education across the Commonwealth in 2003. This led to the first Good Practice Awards being launched in 2005, which identified a number of worthy projects during the year-long period of adjudication.
For more information, go to http://www.thecommonwealth.org/educationawards.
The closing date for submissions is October 31.
THE Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards 2009 were officially launched on 30 April 2008. Projects, programmes, policies, strategies or significant initiatives which have made a positive difference to the status and condition of primary school children, their teachers, or the education system of a country may be submitted.
Entries must demonstrate relevance, measurable impact and effect, sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness of the contribution. They must also reflect community participation and contribution and the potential to be replicated.
Work submitted must also address one or more of the following six action areas:
The awards were formally launched by Dr. Zulkarnain Awang, Secretary-General for the Ministry of Education in Malaysia. Awang is also chair of the adjudication panel.
Malaysia is hosting the 17th Commonwealth Education Ministers Meeting in June 2009, when the winners of the Education Awards will be announced.
“These good practice awards give governments, civil society and non-governmental organisations the opportunity to showcase as well as share their good practices with other countries across the Commonwealth,†Awang said at the Secretariat’s headquarters in Marlborough House, London, UK.
Ministers of education first proposed the idea of the awards for good practices in education across the Commonwealth in 2003. This led to the first Good Practice Awards being launched in 2005, which identified a number of worthy projects during the year-long period of adjudication.
For more information, go to http://www.thecommonwealth.org/educationawards.
The closing date for submissions is October 31.