Research and Evaluation on Education in the South

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Main Speakers
 


Dr. Mmantsetsa Marope,
World Bank Senior Education Specialist.
 

Mmantsetsa Marope joined the World Bank in 1999 as a Senior Education Specialist working in the East and Southern Africa sub-region.

Prior to her engagement at the World Bank Marope was a Regional Coordinator for the Education Research Network for East and South Africa (ERNESA). The Network covered twelve countries in east and southern Africa. Its key mission was to develop capacity for education research and its interface with policy development and management.

Before joining ENERSA, she was a professor in the faculty of education at the University of Botswana with key teaching areas as evaluation research, curriculum and instruction and psychology of learning. Mmantsetsa has extensive experience in development work as a consultant.

  

Professor Yash Tandon,
Executive Director of the South Centre Secretariat in Geneva.

Yash Tandon is the Executive Director of the South Centre, an Intergovernmental organization of the developing countries, based in Geneva.

Prior to this he served as the Founding Director of the Southern and Eastern Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) in Uganda.

Dr Tandon’s long career in national and international development spans as a policymaker, a political activist, a professor and a public intellectual.

He was member of Zimbabwe and Uganda delegations at separate times at the WTO conferences. He was deeply involved in the struggle against the dictatorship of Idi Amin and has spent time in exile.

Dr. Tandon has taught at several universities worldwide including the Makerere University (Uganda), the Dar-es-Salaam University (Tanzania), the London School of Economics (UK) and Columbia University (US).

He has written over one hundred scholarly articles and has authored and edited books on wide ranging subjects including on African politics, Peace and Security, Trade and WTO, International Economics, South – South Cooperation and Human Rights.  He has also served on several advisory committes.

Dr. Tandon is a national of Uganda and received his degrees in economics and international relations from the London School of Economics, UK.

Birgit Brock-Utne

Professor Birgit Brock-Utne,
Project manager of NETREED will be the moderator of the conference.

Birgit Brock-Utne is Professor of Education and Development at the University of Oslo, Director of the M.Phil. in Comparative and International Education and
project leader of NETREED.

Her research interests include education in Africa, language in education, higher education in Africa and donor influence on education in the developing world. From 1987 until 1992 she was a Professor at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania where she learnt to speak Kiswahili.

She is the Norwegian coordinator of the NUFU project LOITASA (Language of Instruction in Tanzania and South Africa) and has co-edited four books from the project (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 with Zubeida Desai and Martha Qorro).

Her publications further include Whose Education for All? The Recolonization of the African Mind (2000, republished by africanabooks.org in 2006) and  Language of Instruction for African Emancipation (ed.2005, with Rodney Kofi Hopson)

Workshops
A group of five to six experienced evaluators will give
workshops connected to the theme of
Evaluation of Education from the South.

 

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