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About NETREED
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Main Speakers
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Dr. Mmantsetsa Marope,
World Bank Senior Education Specialist.
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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.
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Professor
Yash Tandon,
Executive Director of the South Centre Secretariat in Geneva.
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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.
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Professor
Birgit Brock-Utne,
Project
manager of NETREED will be
the moderator of the conference.
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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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