Transcript Background to UNESCO Recommendations.ppt

BACKGROUND TO UNESCO
RECOMMENDATIONS
Wataru Iwamoto
Director, Division for Secondary, Technical
and Vocational Education
UNESCO
Regional Seminar
Kaduna 8-11 December
Division for Secondary, Technical
and Vocational Education
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UNESCO Standards Setting Role
• Developing Normative Instruments
• Developing Standard Setting Documents
•Revised Recommendations Concerning TVE
(2001)
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History of UNESCO
Recommendations
•1962: Recommendations Concerning TVE
•1974: Revised Recommendations
Concerning TVE
•2001: Revised Recommendations
Concerning TVE
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and Vocational Education
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Drastic Change of Society
• Globalisation
• Information Technology
• Abandonment of Centrally Planned Economies
Change of Nature of Work
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Demands for New Skills
TVET Needed to Adapt to Meet New Challenges of
the World of Work
Necessity to Revise Standard Setting Document
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Second International Congress of TVE
Seoul April,1999
Recommendations
UNESCO’s 31st General Conference in 2001:
Recommendations adopted
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and Vocational Education
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UNESCO
•Ministry of
•Education
ILO
Ministry of Labour
Life-long education
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World Forum on Education
Dakar,April 2000
1. Expansion and improvement of early childhood
education
2. Attainment of Universal Primary Education
3. Ensuring that learning needs of all young
people and adults are met through equitable
access to appropriate learning & life skills
programme
4. Improving adult literacy
5. Gender equity
6. Improving educational quality
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To be discussed in this seminar
• Possibilities and challenges in
implementing UNESCO and ILO
documents
• Feasibility of initiating sub-regional
mechanism
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Seoul +5Conference in October,2004 in Bonn,
Germany
Monitoring the levels of implementation of
the Recommendations of UNESCO
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