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Past Issues - August 2004 Note: Most hyperlinks will open in a new window. Please close the new window in order to be automatically returned to the GCE site. NEW IMF HEAD BACKS EFA AFTER UGANDA VISIT Following a visit to Uganda, the IMF’s new Managing Director issued a statement calling on rich countries to give more aid for the Education for All initiative, the fight against HIV/AIDS and malaria, and infrastructure development as well as the MDGs in general. Rodrigo de Rato, who succeeded Horst Kohler earlier this year, also stressed the need for rich countries to open their markets to African exports and abolish trade-distorting subsidies. However, he called on African governments to foster economic growth and remove obstacles to business activity. Rato’s visit included meetings with schoolchildren, MPs and civil society. Impressed by the children’s eloquence, Rato said that he “fully shares the dream of … the children of Uganda, that important inroads will be made in the years ahead to improve the quality of life of the poor.” He added that “raising economic growth in Africa, particularly to attain the Millennium Development Goals” would be one of his top priorities in the job. 6 August 2004 ECUADOR: BUDGET BREAKTHROUGH FOR CAMPAIGNERS After taking part in the World's Biggest Lobby in April, the citizens' movement Social Contract for Education in Ecuador (CSLE) scored a significant victory this June when the Ministry of Education created a special budget line to achieve 100% enrolment in Year One of primary school from 2005 onwards. This programme will benefit around 100,000 girls and boys, and is seen as the first step towards achieving universal completion of at least 10 years of quality basic education. GCE congratulates CSLE on the lobby and campaign efforts they put into achieving this milestone. For more info contact Milton Luna or Cecilia Viteri from CSLE: miltonlunatamayo@yahoo.com 3 August 2004 COMMONWEALTH SEEKS DEAL ON TEACHER “POACHING” Commonwealth Education Ministers will meet in the UK later this month to agree on guidelines for cross-border recruitment of teachers. Developing countries in the Commonwealth are losing large numbers of teachers to more lucrative posts in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and believe they should be compensated for the resources they have invested in training these migratory teachers. Following hot debates on teacher ‘poaching’ during the Commonwealth education conference in Scotland last October, a working group met in February to negotiate a protocol. The draft agreement, to be finalised later this month, establishes the right of teachers to migrate in search of career opportunities, but also contains measures to prevent “exploitation” of scarce human resources in poor countries. A similar protocol already exists in the health sector, while some countries, such as South Africa and the UK, already have bilateral deals providing compensation for teacher flows. 3 August 2004 ©2004 GCE You are welcome to reproduce items from the GCE E-News for any non-profit use, as long as you credit GCE together with any original source mentioned in the article. |
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