ICTs in TVET in Africa: Call for Participation

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2nd UNESCO-UNEVOC Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Summit on Access to and Inclusion in TVET in Africa through New Technology-Based Solutions

May 28th, 2008

The Event

At this Summit, UNESCO-UNEVOC is seeking to promote best practice examples on the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in TVET in Africa.

Toward this goal, all organisations, groups and individuals involved in technical vocational education and training are cordially invited to submit information about their projects. The deadline for submissions is February 28th, 2008.

ICTs are becoming increasingly important in education and training because they open up new learning pathways. Furthermore, they expand and extend access to education and training for broad sectors of the population.

Topics

In technical and vocational education and training, the use of ICTs is still very limited in many parts of the world, and through TVET’s activities, UNESCO-UNEVOC attempts to foster their use. Some of the crucial issues that need to be addressed are:

• capacity development in the use of ICTs in TVET learning and teaching,
• the nature of participation and collaborative learning in the context of accessibility, connectivity and localisation.

Representatives of three selected projects will be invited to present their work at the Summit. Travel will be covered by the Commonwealth of Learning. The developments of one of these projects will be followed throughout the year. It is also planned to feature the selected projects on the UNESCO-UNEVOC website.

Submissions can be made through a form available online at
www.unevoc.unesco.org/TVETSummit

Contact

The completed forms should be send to Maja Zarini, Head of Communications, UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre, UN Campus, Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany, m.zarini@unevoc.unesco.org, phone: +49 – (0)228 815 01 15, fax: +49 – (0)228 815 01 99.

The information is also available at www.unevoc.unesco.org/TVETSummit.

January 23, 2008

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