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International Cooperation to Achieve the Education for All Goals: Strategies and Challenges for UNICEF and its Partners in Kenya

October 8, 2013

12:45-2:00pm
Tuesday, 8 October, 2013
206 Runme Shaw Building, HKU Main Campus

Speakers: Suguru Mizunoya
Chair: Mark Bray

This seminar will provide a short history of the education sector in Kenya, highlighting major events such as the introduction of Free Primary Education, post-election violence in 2008, the Horn of Africa Drought Crisis, and promulgation of the new constitution and Education Act in 2013. It will discuss ways in which Development Partners are working with the government, while also highlighting some tensions and challenges. The discussion will include focus on political and financial issues which are relevant to the wider EFA agenda in Africa and beyond.

Suguru Mizunoya has recently joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Programme of Global Political Economy), having previously worked for UNICEF and Chaired the Education Development Partner Group in Kenya. He has also worked in UNICEF’s regional office in Bangkok, and for the World Bank and ILO. His research includes financing and planning of education systems, impact evaluation, and cost-benefit analysis of education policies.

All are welcome!

China-Africa Research

December 18, 2012

China-Africa Educational Aid and Development Cooperation Papers by Kenneth King and Bjorn Nordtveit

Nordtveit, B 2011. An emerging donor in education and development: A case study of China in Cameroon International Journal of Educational Development

King, K. 2010a. China’s Cooperation with Africa, and Especially South Africa, in Education and Training. A Special Relationship and a Different Approach to Aid? Journal of International Cooperation in Education

King, K. 2010b. African students value the results of studying in China. Nature

King, K. 2010c. China’s cooperation in education and training with Kenya: A different model? International Journal of Educational Development

Nordtveit, B 2009. Western and Chinese development discourses: Education, growth and sustainability. International Journal of Educational Development

King, K. 2006a, China and Africa: new approaches to aid, trade and international cooperation, main paper at the Annual General Meeting of the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC), 24 March, 2006, HKU, Hong Kong.

King, K. 2006b China and Africa: towards a new paradigm in human resource development? keynote paper at the Roundtable on Comparative Culture and Education in African and Asian Societies, on 26th May, HKU, Hong Kong; it was published in Chinese in Africa and Asia, the Journal of IWAAS, Institute of West Asian and African Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in February 2007

King, K. 2006c China’s partnership discourse with Africa, Royal African Society (RAS) and South African Institute for International Affairs (SAIIA), China in Africa in the 21st Century: Preparing for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, 16-17 October 2006, Johannesburg, published in special issue on Sino-African relations of International Politics Quarterly (Peking University, in Chinese).

King, K. 2006d, Aid within the wider China-Africa partnership: a view from the Beijing Summit, paper to Workshop on China-Africa Links, 11-12 November 2006, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

King, K. 2006e The Beijing China-Africa Summit of 2006: the new implementation implications of aid to education, paper to the Symposium of China-Africa shared development, supported by Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Institute of West-Asian and African Studies, CASS, and the Department for International Development (DFID), UK, 18-19 December 2006, Beijing (published by CASS in May 2007)

King, K. 2007a, China’s aid to Africa: a view from China and Japan, lead paper to the JICA seminar on China’s Aid to Africa the Beijing Summit and its Follow-up, 29th January 2007, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Tokyo (being offered to the Journal for International Cooperation in Education (Hiroshima University).

King, K. 2007b , The politics and policies of skill: China, Africa, India, lead paper to the CESA/CESHK conference, 8-11 January 2007, University of Hong Kong.

King, K. 2007c, China’s ambitious training aid for Africa: implications for the Mainland and for Hong Kong lead paper at symposium on China’s training aid for Africa, 27th April 2007, Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong.

King, K. 2007d African Studies in the UK and Europe: Lessons for China and the UK?, Presentation at the Foundation of the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University, 1^st September 2007, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China