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Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 1 BACKGROUND TO UNESCO RECOMMENDATIONS Wataru Iwamoto.

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2 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 1 BACKGROUND TO UNESCO RECOMMENDATIONS Wataru Iwamoto Director, Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education UNESCO

3 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 2 UNESCO Standards Setting Role Developing Normative Instruments Developing Standard Setting Documents Revised Recommendations Concerning TVE (2001)

4 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 3 History of UNESCO Recommendations 1962: Recommendations Concerning TVE 1974: Revised Recommendations Concerning TVE 2001: Revised Recommendations Concerning TVE

5 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 4 Drastic Change of Society Globalisation Information Technology Abandonment of Centrally Planned Economies Change of Nature of Work

6 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 5 Demands for New Skills TVET Needed to Adapt to Meet New Challenges of the World of Work Necessity to Revise Standard Setting Document

7 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 6 Second International Congress of TVE Seoul April,1999 Recommendations UNESCO’s 31 st General Conference in 2001: Recommendations adopted

8 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 7 Life-long education Ministry of Labour Ministry of Education UNESCO ILO

9 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 8 World Forum on Education Dakar,April 2000 1.Expansion and improvement of early childhood education 2.Attainment of Universal Primary Education 3.Ensuring that learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning & life skills programme 4.Improving adult literacy 5.Gender equity 6.Improving educational quality

10 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 9 To be discussed in this seminar Possibilities and challenges in implementing UNESCO and ILO documents Feasibility of initiating sub-regional mechanism

11 Regional Seminar Kaduna 8-11 December 2003 Division for Secondary, Technical and Vocational Education 10 Seoul +5Conference in October,2004 in Bonn, Germany Monitoring the levels of implementation of the Recommendations of UNESCO


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