Summit

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World summit on sustainable development.

Abstract: News p 405 The world summit on sustainable development in Johannesburg will take place in a region where the excess mortality attributable to hunger and disease may exceed 300 000 in the next six months.1 Although most press comment contrasts the conditions in countries affected by famine with those that can be expected at the Sandton convention centre, the famine brings home the core message of sustainable development: it is about people and their survival. Sustainable development is, of course, about climate change and rising sea levels. It is about the loss of biodiversity and spreading deserts. But it is also about providing food, shelter, and health to everybody on this planet in such a way that future generations can do the same. It is no secret that preparations for the summit have been difficult. Reaching consensus on such a wide and interlinked range of issues, in a way that meets the needs and aspirations of countries north and south, will not be easy. Clear …

The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa

Abstract: The Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, held in November of 2006 helped to focus more world attention on the state of the African economy, which has seen far too many worries and failures and far too few successes As the author states "It forced the West to focus on something new: Chinese aid and other forms of economic engagement were sharply on the rise in Africa China was on a track to become the African continent's largest trading partner, outpacing Great Britain and the United States Nearly 900 Chinese companies had invested in Africa by then (2002) – in factories and farms, retail shops and oil wells

Preparing teachers and developing school leaders for the 21st century: lessons from around the world

Abstract: This report from the OECD has been prepared to support the second International Summit on the Teaching Profession held in New York in March 2012 and hosted by the US Department of Education, the OECD and Education International. The summit was designed to review how to best improve the quality of teaching, teachers and school leaders. The report presents available research about what can make educational reforms effective, and highlights examples of reforms that have produced specific results, show promise or illustrate imaginative ways of implementing change. The report acknowledges that the kind of teaching needed today requires teachers to be high-level knowledge workers who constantly advance their own professional knowledge as well as that of their profession. However, to attract and develop knowledge workers, education systems need to transform the leadership and work organisation of their schools to an environment in which professional norms of management complement bureaucratic and administrative forms of control, with the status, pay, professional autonomy, and the high quality education that go with professional work, and with effective systems of teacher evaluation, with differentiated career paths and career diversity for teachers. The summit is organised around three interconnected themes and the report addresses each of these. Chapter one, 'Developing effective school leaders' [drafted by Beatriz Pont in collaboration with Pauline Musset, Andreas Schleicher, Diana Toledo Figueroa and Juliana Zapata], contains the following sections: a changing profile of school leadership; supporting, evaluating and developing teacher quality; goal-setting, assessment and accountability; strategic resource management; leadership beyond school walls; distributing leadership; developing leadership for tomorrow's education systems; appraisal of school leaders; conclusions; Chapter two, 'Teacher development, support, employment conditions and careers' [drafted by David Istance and Stephan Vincent-Lancrin in collaboration with Dirk Van Damme, Andreas Schleicher and Kristen Weatherby], contains: changes in the demand for student skills; a demanding agenda for teachers; understanding learning to improve teaching practices; designing ecosystems for a 21st-century teaching profession; conclusions; Chapter three, 'Preparing teachers: matching demand and supply' [drafted by Andreas Schleicher in collaboration with Dirk van Damme and Pauline Musset], contains: a challenge of teacher shortages; making teaching an attractive career choice; compensation schemes to match teacher supply and demand; establishing effective employment conditions; ensuring high-quality initial teacher education; providing for attractive careers; meeting the need for ongoing professional development to address issues of teacher supply; conclusions. The appendix contains selected comparative data from OECD sources.