Training: Stakeholders Consultation on Strengthening Capacity for National Education Accounts NEAS
Duration: 2 Days 29-30 Jan 2013
General Objective: To identify the status of NEAS in GCC & Yemen, Linking Educational Finance with learning outcome.
Content Day One:
Ms. Mahra Hilal Al Mutawie, Director, RCEP
Session 1:
Country presentations on status of NEAS in the GCC & Yemen.
Moderator: TBA
• Country presentations: Diagnosis / Analysis of current status of education financial data available at country level.
Session 2:
Resource specialists presentations.
Moderator: TBD
International perspectives:
• National education accounts: linking educational finance with learning outcomes Jacques van der Gaag, Brookings Institute
• The Quality Challenge: tools for decision making and research Massoud Moussavi, Causal Links, USA
• Need for strengthening capacity to collect, analyze and utilize reliable and comprehensive educational data to establish National Education Accounts Elise Legault, UIS
• National Education Accounts: Principles and Methodology, presentation of Kenya case Study
Ousmane Diouf, IIEP
Day Two:
Session 3:
Identifying key challenges and priorities for strengthening NEAS in the GCC & Yemen Workshop.
Group one workshop: Identifying challenges and priorities
Moderator: Member State (TBD)
Group two workshop: Identify priorities to develop a research agenda on national education accounts in the GCC & Yemen.
• Reporting to plenary with discussion
Session 4:
Developing the research methodology for study on NEAS in selected GCC States.
Chair: TBC
• Presentation on Research Methodology.
• Group work to identify purpose, key objectives, overarching questions and key priorities.
• Reporting group work to plenary.
• Question and Answer Session.
Session 5:
The way forward:
Chair: RCEP
• Applied Educational Research: Setting a research agenda for setting up NEAS in GCC & Yemen.
Target Group: MOE Senior Staff & Decision Makers. In Gulf states & Yemen
