Report by the Adult Education Thematic Working Group of the CARK Education Forum Enhancing the Quali

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Report by the Adult Education Thematic Working
Group of the CARK Education Forum Enhancing the
Quality and Access to Adult Education through
Education System Reform

• E.V.Boiko, deputy head of the group, Ministry of
  Education of the Kyrgyz Republic

June 6-8, 2005 Dushanbe, Tajikistan
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Guidelines when identifying goals and tasks in
Adult Education

• Goal 3. To ensure that the learning needs of all
  young people and adults are met through equitable
  access to appropriate learning and life skills
  programs.

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Guidelines when identifying goals and tasks in
Adult Education

• Goal 4. To achieve a 50 improvement in adult
  literacy rate, especially for women, and
  equitable access to basic and continuing
  education for all adults.

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AccomplishmentsWhat has been done?

• Management
• The Provision on Adult Education Coordination
  Council was developed and approved by the Board
  of the Ministry of Education of the Kyrgyz
  Republic in April of 2005.
• Regulatory framework
• The draft of the Adult Education Concept paper
  will be submitted for consideration of the Board
  of the Kyrgyz Ministry of Education in July of
  2005, the draft law on Adult Education will be
  submitted for consideration of the Kyrgyz
  Government.
• The documents of the government issue are being
  currently developed in accordance with the new
  Provision on Extended Professional Education
  approved by the Governmental Decree 53 of
  February 3, 2004.

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Ensuring an equitable access to the appropriate
learning programs for the young people and adults

• In Kyrgyzstan
• The UNESCO supported the Community Learning
  Centers project aimed at providing community
  members with knowledge and skills necessary for
  improvement of the quality of their life.
• There is need at present to provide additional
  trainings aimed at enhancement of capacity of the
  CLCs staff in management, evaluation and
  monitoring, work with focus groups. It is
  necessary to find trainers for delivery of
  various courses.

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Ensuring an equitable access to the appropriate
learning programs for the young people and adults

• In Kazakhstan
• The work on designing the human resources
  development model at the community level was
  continued in the Life Skills Shaping through CLCs
  project with the support of the UNESCO (Bangkok)
  and the UNESCO Cluster Office in Almaty.
• The seminar for trainers of the Community
  Learning Centers was held to train them how to
  shape life skills of the youth and adults.
• The Community Learning Centers project is gaining
  a wider political and financial support, both at
  the national and local levels.

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Ensuring an equitable access to the appropriate
learning programs for the young people and adults

• The International Conference Modern Trends in
  Human Resources Development Management in the
  Education System was held April12-13, 2005,
  which brought together scholars and practitioners
  from Kazakhstan, other Central Asian countries,
  Russia, Finland, Japan, Germany.
• The conference addressed the following issues
• Conceptual framework of human resources
  development management
• Economic education as a medium of shaping a
  competitive personality
• IT in the education administration system
• Human resources development management is the key
  factor in improvement of the quality of education.

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Efforts of the IIZ/DVV in Central Asia on
Development of the Adult Education System in
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

• In Kyrgyzstan
• In January of 2004 the IIZ/DVV in association
  with the Adult Learning Center commenced the
  project of the European Commission Social
  Partnership in Professional Education.
• The project supposes establishment of an
  effectively operating network of businessmen,
  Employment Departments and professional education
  providers as the core of social partnership in
  lobbying the Adult Education idea and elimination
  of the unemployment problem.

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Efforts of the IIZ/DVV in Central Asia on
Development of the Adult Education System in
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

• In Tajikistan
• The project Trainings for Migrant Laborers and
  the Unemployed in Tajikistan is implemented in
  association with the Scientific Technical
  Intelligentsia Association of Khudjant.
• Upon completion of courses, trainees take exams
  and receive certificates which are also
  recognized in Russia for employment purposes.
• Social booklets on selected frequently
  encountered problems of labor migration and
  unemployment are being published.
• An important place in solution of problems of
  migrant laborers is held by work with their
  family members.

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Efforts of the IIZ/DVV in Central Asia on
Development of the Adult Education System in
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

• In Uzbekistan
• Nurses training for the mahallya in Andijan
  Oblast.
• Vocational Training Courses for the Convicted
  Women (in Tashkent) and the Convicted Men (in
  Andijan).
• Tashkent Nights meetings
• Trainings for the unemployed at the Uzbek
  colleges.
• Providing assistance to the Unemployed Training
  Center at the Ministry of Labor and Social
  Security of Uzbekistan in Tashkent.
• The Adult Education working group was established
  in cooperation with the UNESCO and UNICED in the
  framework of the Conference in May of 2004.
• The brochure International and Regional
  Documents on Adult Education Issues was
  published.

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Plans for the FutureOur Major Steps in the
Future?

• 1. Development of the Regulatory Framework for
  Adult Education
• 1.1. To design the matrix of actions on
  implementation of the Adult Education Strategy
  which might serve as a model for the rest CARK
  countries in order to shape the general idea of
  policy and to develop the regulative framework
  for adult education in the CARK countries.
• 2. Building organizational structure of adult
  education
• 2.1. Building favorable conditions for the Adult
  Education Coordination Council and approbation of
  this model of interaction with all interested
  stakeholders to further apply this experience at
  the sub-regional level.

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Plans for the FutureOur Major Steps in the
Future?

• 3. Specialists Training
• 3.1. In order to organize the system of training,
  advanced training and professional re-training of
  specialists-andragogs for adult education
  organizations, further professional education,
  NGOs, universities implementing adult education
  programs, it will be necessary to develop a
  package of recommendations on creation of the
  model of advanced training and professional
  re-training of specialists-andragogs for the CARK
  countries.
• 4. Organization of the public events, especially
  during the Annual Education for All Week (aimed,
  firstly, to develop concrete teaching forms of
  adults secondly, to promote ideas of adult
  education, life-long learning).

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Plans for the FutureOur Major Steps in the
Future?

• 5. Social mobilization of the population and
  achieving a gender equality
• 5.1. Development of the draft of the training
  program for parents in the framework of the
  Development of Children of Pre-School Age at the
  Community Level project of the Asian Development
  Bank.
• 6. Fostering the international cooperation
• 6.1. Enhancement of the access to objective and
  actual information in formal and non-formal adult
  education, both in the CARK countries and abroad
  for all interested parties will presuppose
  collection and analysis of materials as well as
  the update of the home page of the AE TWG of the
  CARK Education Forum on the website of the
  IZZ/DVV in Central Asia (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).

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Plans for the FutureOur Major Steps in the
Future?

• 7. Community Learning Centers Support
• 8. Fostering exchange of experience with other
  countries
• 8.1. The TWG plans to organize 2 events in order
  to discuss the problems encountered in the adult
  education sphere and to provide consultations for
  all interested parties as follows
• 1) A sub-regional seminar for members of the AE
  TWGs of the CARK countries in Kazakhstan aimed at
  consolidation of efforts of all CARK countries in
  development of the Adult Education sphere
• 2). The Adult Education joint consultative
  national meeting of the Kyrgyz Republic for all
  interested parties in order to unite social
  partners in adult education sphere, organization
  and coordination of the adult education process.

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Plans for the FutureOur Major Steps in the
Future?

• 9. To assure a gender equality
• 9.1. It is recommended to conduct a special
  gender-related research on access of Tajik women
  to professional education, as the report of the
  National TWG showed that there is inequitable
  access to different levels of education for men
  and women the higher the level, the less number
  of women is represented.
• 9.2. Intensification of outreach activities
  related with family planning, reproductive
  health, promotion of a healthy lifestyle and
  peace culture.

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The Adult Education Thematic Working Group is
pleased to thank all partners for intensification
of their efforts in the adult education sphere
and for the provided materials.

• Thank you for your attention!