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Education Ministers to Address Teacher Recruitment and the impact of HIV/AIDS

26 August 2004

 
 Teacher Recruitment is an impartant issue for Commonwealth States
Commonwealth Education Ministers, senior officials and representatives of civil society from some 27 countries will meet in the United Kingdom to address the international recruitment of teachers and the impact of HIV/AIDS on the education sector in small states.

The meetings, organised by the Commonwealth Secretariat with the support of the UK's National Union of Teachers, will take place from 30 August to 2 September 2004 at Stoke Rochford Hall Conference Centre, Lincolnshire.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon, who will be addressing Education Ministers on 31 August, said: "These two meetings address the same challenge -- how Commonwealth countries, particularly small developing states, can maintain a workforce of teachers able to deliver the Millennium Development Goal of achieving universal primary education by 2015."

The Ministerial Meeting on the Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol will take place on 1 September when Ministers will consider the final draft of the Protocol. It was developed by a working group chaired by Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General Winston Cox at the request of the 15th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers held in Edinburgh, UK, in October 2003. The Protocol is designed to provide appropriate and ethical codes of conduct for the international recruitment of teachers.

The Small States Ministerial Meeting on HIV/AIDS and Education will take place on 2 September. It will focus on the role of education policy and practice in preventing the loss of teachers and reductions in school enrolment as a consequence of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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