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Association of Commonwealth Universities The Meeting of Council Kerala, 4-7 April 2005

Association of Commonwealth Universities The Meeting of Council Kerala, 4-7 April 2005. COL’s Purpose

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Association of Commonwealth Universities The Meeting of Council Kerala, 4-7 April 2005

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  1. Association of Commonwealth Universities The Meeting of Council Kerala, 4-7 April 2005

  2. COL’s Purpose “to help countries use technology, particularly the demonstrably successful technology of distance learning, to improve the scope, scale and impact of their education and training systems or, more generally, to make the opportunity to learn more widely available to the people of the Commonwealth.”

  3. COL’s Purpose “…any learner anywhere inthe Commonwealth shall be able to study any distance teaching programme available from any bona fide college or university in the Commonwealth”.

  4. Association of Commonwealth Universities The Meeting of Council Kerala, 4-7 April 2005 Sir John DanielPresident – Commonwealth of Learning Commonwealth Universities: What Contribution to Development?

  5. Millennium Development Goals • Poverty and hunger • Primary education • Gender equality • Health (3) • Environment • Partnership

  6. Poverty and hunger Target (2015): Halve the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day and those who suffer from hunger

  7. COL’s contribution to the MDGs Fighting hunger and sustaining a liveable environment means empowering millions of farmers and smallholders and giving rural people more control over their lives.

  8. Lifelong learning for farmers

  9. Lifelong Learning for Farmers • 4 Principles: • Mobilise the farmers • Consortia of information sources • Use technology • Involve banks and commerce

  10. Primary education Target (2015) Ensure that all boys and girls complete primary school

  11. COL’s contribution to the MDGs The bottleneck to achieving primary education and gender parity is the training and retraining of millions of teachers. Success at primary level will create huge pressure at secondary level.

  12. Teacher Training

  13. Gender equality Target (2005) Eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education

  14. Gender equality Target (2015) Eliminate gender disparities at all levels of education

  15. Women and ICTs

  16. Gender Resources www.colfinder.org/dev

  17. Health • Reduce child mortalityBy 2015: reduce by 2/3 the mortality rate for under fives • Improve maternal healthBy 2015: Reduce by ¾ the ratio of women dying in childbirth • - Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • By 2015: Halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS

  18. COL’s contribution to the MDGs To improve the health of mothers and childrenand arrest the spread of disease, ordinary people want information that connects with their lives.

  19. MEDIA EMPOWERMENT Partnership with the WHO

  20. COL works in partnership: • Partnership with the WHO • Partnership with NGOs

  21. Environment • Environmental sustainability • Integrate principles of SD into policy • By 2015: Reduce by ½ those without safe water • Improve lives of > 100 million in slums

  22. COL focuses on Education for Sustainable Development

  23. Global Partnership * Good governance* Small States, Youth & Technology

  24. The Virtual University for Small States of theCommonwealth

  25. Democracy and good governance: the foundation for development

  26. C.K.PrahaladThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

  27. C.K.PrahaladThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid ‘for companies with the resources and persistence to compete at the bottom of the world economic pyramid, the prospective rewards include growth, profits and incalculable contributions to humankind’

  28. C.K.PrahaladThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid ‘if the four billion people at the bottom of the world economic pyramid achieved an APR in HE of 35%, that would represent 150 million students’

  29. C.K.PrahaladThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid ‘radical innovations in technology and business models’ ‘an ideal of highly distributed small scale operations married to world-scale capabilities’

  30. Communication links are altering dramatically the way that poor villages in the developing world function.

  31. C.K.PrahaladThe Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid ‘We have proved to the world that if you build a market for the rich, the poor wouldn’t participate. If you build a market for the poor, the rich would participate’

  32. New Technologies for Higher Education CONNECTIVITY + FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

  33. New Technologies for Higher Education eLEARNING + RE-USABLE LEARNING OBJECTS

  34. New Technologies for Higher Education See: http://www.col.org/lor/index.htm

  35. New Technologies for Higher Education CONNECTIVITY + OPEN EDUCATION RESOURCES

  36. The UNESCO-OECD Guidelines A great service to cross-border higher education

  37. Association of Commonwealth Universities The Meeting of Council Kerala, 4-7 April 2005 Sir John DanielPresident – Commonwealth of Learning Commonwealth Universities: What Contribution to Development?

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