Transcript Item 9 Chair’s summary: Conclusions and Next Steps The 3rd Meeting of the Group of National Experts on the Education of Migrants, Paris ,

Item 9
Chair’s summary:
Conclusions and Next Steps
The 3rd Meeting of the Group of National Experts on
the Education of Migrants, Paris , 26-27 October 2009
Conclusions (1)
The Group:
• Adopted the agenda [EDU/EDPC/MI/A(2009)3/REV2
• Adopted the summary record [EDU/EDPC/MI/M(2008)2
• Noted Update by the Secretariat and Chair of the ad hoc meeting on the
outputs:
– Country background reports (CBRs) on website
www.oecd.org/edu/migration
– Country notes (CNs): Norway published; others to be published by
2009
– Handbook for policy makers (title to be revisited) to be published by
2009
– 2 Ad hoc meetings
• Noted:
– CERI’s work on Teacher Education for Diversity
– DELSA’s work on Jobs for Immigrants
– ETP’s work on Assessing Progress in Improving Equity
– European Commission’s Follow-up of the Green Paper
– Council of Europe’s Language of Schooling
Conclusions (2)
• Agreed that:
– The overall three-chapters structure will NOT be revised;
– The overall scope will NOT be revised (i.e. what education policy can do); but
– Adding contexts stressing the importance of universal measures and ways in
which national policy can have an influence in classroom (e.g. governance,
legislation, etc), possibly separate from chapter 1 as “introduction”
– Policy suggestions will consider the complex interactions and trade-offs of
different policy interventions
– More discussion on both universal and targeted measures, paying special
attention to the “heterogeneity” of immigrant students be reflected while
without making migrant education as a separate track.
– An executive summary will be prepared as a short snapshot for ministers and
high-level officials
– Due to the high political sensitivity, the policy suggestions are presented as
‘options’ rather than ‘recommendations’
– The Secretariat will reflect further on the best title to describe the purpose
of the book
– and will provide more information or source of information e.g. website
address) for policy examples
Conclusions (3)
• Agreed that:
– Chapter 1 will be revised by:
• Adding brief overview of education systems/organisation of classes
with a comparative perspective
• Clarifying the storylines behind statistical information; statistics alone
cannot read easy
• Link better ‘policy implications’ from Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 and 3.
– Chapter 2 and 3 will be revised in light of your comments
• Agreed that:
– There will be no international conference to mark the closure of the
project.
– Instead, there will be national seminars country by country for effective
dissemination as well as part of the national implementation process.
Action Plan
Next steps Countries
• Written comments to the Secretariat by 13 November
• Main policy messages to be presented at the EDPC on
25-26 November
• Revised draft to be put on OLIS by late November
• Final comments on EDG by early December
• To be published in December 2009 or January 2010