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Partnerships in HE: Norway’s support to the education sector. Education is job number one!. The education strategy. Education - Job number 1, Norwegian Strategy for Delivering Education for All by 2015 was launched in January 2003. http://www.odin.dep.no/filarkiv/168658/utdanning-eng.pdf
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Partnerships in HE: Norway’s support to the education sector Education is job number one!
The education strategy • Education - Job number 1, Norwegian Strategy for Delivering Education for All by 2015 was launched in January 2003. • http://www.odin.dep.no/filarkiv/168658/utdanning-eng.pdf • General • Holistic approach (all levels of the education system) • Sector programmes emphasised - country ownership • Donor co-ordination - ease the burden on recipient countries • Capacity building and decentralisation
The education strategy • Continued emphasis: • Girls and women (particularly through UNICEF) • Quality (especially teacher education, e.g. in The Palestinian Areas, Madagascar, Angola) • HIV/AIDS and education (e.g. Zambia)
Strategy for strengthening research and higher education (1999) • To help build up research competence in developing countries • To promote South-South collaboration • To promote a dialogue with research institutions in the south as a part of an integrated Norwegian - South policy • To strengthen competence and capacity in key subject areas of strategic importance to recipient countries and where Norwegian institutions have particular expertise and competence.
Examples of channels of support:HE related to EFA and MDG goals • Pilot program: research and partnherships within teacher education (2005-2007) • NUFU program for institutional partnership in HE and research: research programs on language of instruction, Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Competence Building in Special Needs Education towards Inclusion" - Ethiopia - Uganda - Norway • Institutional partnerships TE: Bangladesh (training of trainers)Zambia (HIV/Aids, multi-grade teaching • Norad Fellowship Program (M.Phil in Int. and comparative education)
Linking HE to EFA and MDG Goals: Some challenges • Maintaining a holistic approach to education (Norwegian support to HE decreasing) • Perceiving and using synergy effects of HE and research to reach EFA and MDG goals • Developing theory on direct and indirect links between HE and Poverty Reduction • Institutions of higher learning: Maintaining a proper balance between autonomy and social responsibility