Commonwealth launches Education Good Practice Awards
1 May 2008
The Commonwealth Education Good Practice Awards 2009 were officially launched on 30 April 2008.
Projects, programmes, policies, strategies or significant initiatives which have made a positive difference to the status and condition of primary school children, their teachers, or the education system of a country may be submitted.
The closing date for submissions is 31 October 2008.
Entries must demonstrate relevance, measurable impact and effect, sustainability, efficiency and effectiveness, community participation and contribution and the potential to be replicated.
Work submitted must also address one or more of the following six action areas: Achieving Universal Primary Education; Eliminating Gender Disparities in Education; Improving Quality in Education; Using Distance Learning to Overcome Barriers; Supporting Education in Difficult Circumstances and Mitigating the Impact of HIV/AIDS on Education Systems.
The awards were formally launched by Dr Zulkarnain Awang, Secretary-General for the Ministry of Education in Malaysia, who is chair of the adjudication panel. Malaysia is hosting the 17 Commonwealth Education Ministers Meeting in June 2009, when the winners of the Education Awards will be announced.
“These good practice awards give governments, civil society and non-governmental organisations the opportunity to showcase as well as share their good practices with other countries across the Commonwealth,” he said at the Secretariat’s headquarters in Marlborough House, London, UK.
Ministers of Education first proposed the idea of awards for good and promising practices in Education across the Commonwealth in 2003. This led to the first Good Practice Awards being launched in 2005, which identified a number of worthy projects during the year-long period of adjudication.
The runner up from the first awards was a primary school in Cyprus which fought discrimination, decreased racism, and increased acceptance and tolerance among Greek, Turkish and Roma children.
First place went to a community-based peer counselling and education project in South Africa which engaged young people in mitigating the impact of HIV and AIDS on education systems.
“These are examples of outstanding initiatives and good practices which are contributing to the achievement of our global goals in education,” said Henry Kaluba, Head of Education at the Secretariat.
For more information on the awards and how to apply please click on the following link: http://www.thecommonwealth.org/educationawards
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