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CONFERENCE  PROGRAMME
Monday December 5th

Time

What

Speakers

Topic

09.00

Departure by bus from University of Oslo, Helga Eng’s House, Sem Sælandsvei 7 

10.00

Departure by bus from Gardermoen airport (arrival hall, 1. floor)

13.00aprx

Arrival at Radissson SAS Beitostølen. Registration.

13.15

Lunch

 

 

14.30

Opening session

Professor Dr. Birgit Brock-Utne, Project Leader, NETREED

Welcome and introductory remarks

Local Student from
Municipality Cultural School


15.00

Key note speaker

 

Dr. Catherine A. Odora Hoppers

 

Evaluation Undressed:  Citizen's Demand for Transparency and Good Faith in the
Context of Accountability and Democracy.

15.45

Plenary discussion.

Chair:  Birgit Brock-Utne

 

16.30

Coffee /tea

 

 

17.00 - 18.15

Parallel sessions / paper presentations.

Group 1: Evaluation
Chair:
Malcolm Mercer

Group 2: Language
Chair: Birgit Brock-Utne

Group 3: Quality
Chair: Catherine Odora Hoppers

Group 4: HIV-Aids
Chair: Ellen Carm

Frances Olsen
Evaluating the Master of Laws program at Addis Ababa University in the context of East African Graduate Law Programs in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda


Ulla Ambrosius Madsen
Shaped in the Shade of Liberalistic education Reforms. Comparative studies of Schooling and education in Recife, Hanoi and Lusaka.

Rhoda Kidami Peterson
The use of an African language at University Level. The example of Kiswahili department at the university of Dar-es-Salaam.

Heidi Biseth
Language issues in Education influenced by global trends - South African experiences

Roald Skøelv/ Titus Tenga
LITERACY – why is the situation unsatisfactory and how can it be improved?

Nurul I. Shekh
Quality Matters in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh. Education, quality, Bangladesh, relevance.

Anita Samsukal Meisal
HIV/AIDS and Education: A case study of a public primary school in Kwazulu-Natal
Involving key stakeholders
Kristine Uldal
The role of education in the battle against HIV/AIDS

Tatu Sultan Lungo
The Quality of HIV/AIDS Education Integrated in the Secondary School Curriculum of Tanzania

19.30

Dinner

 

 

21.00

Cultural event

Local actors
Dance to the house  orchestra

 

CONFERENCE  PROGRAMME

Tuesday December 6th  

Time

What

Speakers

Topic

07.00-09.00:

Breakfast


 

 09.00:

Key note speaker

Dr. Cream Wright, Global Chief of Education UNICEF, New York.

Setting Global Goals and Measuring Local Results - Ideology and Partnership in Education Evaluation.

09.45

Plenary discussion.

Chair: Roald Skøelv

 

10.30

Coffee/tea

 

 

11.00

Keynote speaker  

Malcolm Mercer

 

Evaluating education programmes - on whose terms and to what effect?

11.45

Plenary discussion.

Chair: Karl Øyvind Jordell

 

13.00

Lunch

 

 

15.00

Ski / Outdoor activities / Swimming / Spinning / SPA

16.30

Coffee/tea

 

 

17.00 - 18.30

Informal discussion in four groups

Evaluation of Education.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Chair:
Cream Wright

Chair:
Malcolm Mercer

 

Chair:
Anette Haug

Chair:
Birgit Brock-Utne

19.30

Dinner

 

 

 21.00

 Cultural event

Dance to the house orchestra

 

  

CONFERENCE  PROGRAMME

Wednesday December 7th

Time

What

Speakers

Topic

07.00 - 09.00

Breakfast

09.00 - 10.30

Outdoor leisure time

10.30 –

11.45

Parallel sessions/ paper presentations

Group 1: Evaluation
Chair:
Ulla Ambrosius Madsen 

Group 2: 
Language
Chair:
Heidi Biseth

Group 3: 
Quality
Chair: Roald Skøelv/ Titus Tenga

Group 4:
Gender. Economics of Education
Chair:
Hilde Thyness

Elizabeth Paradiso Urassa
Rethinking Access to Learning

Gréta Björk Guðmundsdóttir
Approching the Digital Divide

Tove Nagel
A participatory,
illuminative evaluation
of the Quality Education. Project in Amhara
region, Ethiopia

Birgit Brock-Utne
The interrelationship between language and culture. Some claim that language is culture. But culture is more than 
language
.

Line Kjølstad Gran
Speaking in kiswahili, Learning in English
Tanzanian views on the language of instruction at their university

Camilla Solland
Norwegian procedures for qualification of refugee's education: A study of assessment guidelines since 1990, form a  perspective of globalisation

Maria del Pilar Gonzalez Vigil
Stress and Education: Comparative Study on Development of Stress Management
Strategies in Swedish and Peruvian Students

Ellen Carm
Global policies versus national needs and priorities in education: a case study of Zambia.

Anne Lyhne-Hansen

How payments for schooling affect the students’ attitude toward their studies and shows in their results.

Mirja Mohammad Shahjamal Causes Behind Gender Difference in Mathematics: Case From the Primary Schools of Norway and Bangladesh

Legis N. Noer Said
Title will follow

12.00

Check out time

12.30

Concluding remarks 

Roald Skøelv

Evaluation and feedback

13.00

Lunch

 

 

14.15

Departure from Beitostølen

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