Centre of African Studies University of Edinburgh

ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

27-28 April 2005

Re-integrating

Education, Skills and Work in Africa

Towards informal or knowledge economies?

Towards autonomy or dependency in development?

Themes include: the sustainability of the millennium development process in education, looking beyond ‘Education for All’, African education and skill in the world’s development agenda of 2005, post-basic education and training for poverty reduction and knowledge development, skills and enterprise for poverty or growth, aid for autonomy or dependency in education and training.

Speakers and discussants include: Christopher Colclough (Cambridge); Ruth Kagia (World Bank & Kenya); Keith Watson (IJED); John Lwanda (University of Edinburgh & Malawi); Peter Williams and Lalage Bown (Council for Education in the Commonwealth, UK); Nobuhide Sawamura (Hiroshima University); Jonathan Jansen (University of Pretoria, SA); Kenneth King (University of Edinburgh); Keith Lewin & Pauline Rose (University of Sussex); Kilemi Mwiria (Ministry of Education, Kenya); Jacques Charmes (IRD, Paris); Fred Fluitman (ILO, Turin); Simon McGrath (University of Nottingham); Holger Hansen (CAS, University of Copenhagen); Rungano.J. Zvobgo,
Midlands State University, Zimbabwe; Ingemar Gustafsson (Sida, Stockholm); Lennart Wohlgemuth (Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala); Yumiko Yokozeki (JICA, Tokyo); Wolfgang Kuper (GTZ, Germany); Claver Yisa (Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Scientific Research, Rwanda); Botshabelo Maja (Ministry of Labour, SA);

Conference Fee: £ 60.00

Edinburgh Staff: £ 40.00

Student: £ 25.00

Conference Dinner: £ 16.00

Venue: Raeburn Room, Old College, University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh.

Bookings and information:

Conference Registration 2005, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh,

21 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, Scotland

Tel. +44 (0)131 650 3878; Fax: +44 (0)131 650 6535; Email: African.Studies@ed.ac.uk