| 2011 | |
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| April 4 |
ComSec/Government
of Mauritius. Planning meeting for 18CCEM. Marlborough House.
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RCS. Launch
of Me and My Net (a global malaria initiative)
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| April 5 |
ComSec Social
Transformation Programmes Division. Launch of 2012 Education Good Practice
Awards. Marlborough House. 2p.m.
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| April 6-8 | ACU. Conference of Executive Heads. Higher education in hard times - risk, reputation, reform: developing new business in a changing environment. Hong Kong. www.acu.ac.uk/hongkong2011 |
| April 14 | ICS. Language Policy/Practice Series. Mr Rakesh Bhanot, Founder Editor, Language Issues. Topic: Living a multi-lingual life in the Commonwealth, Rm. ST275 Senate Ho. 17:30 - 1900 |
| April 17-19 | CBC. Africa Investment Forum 2011, featuring sessions on Education and the role of the private sector in its provision. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
| April 19-20 | RCS. National Youth Summit - Marlborough house/ Commonwealth Club |
| April 26-30 | EACLALS (European branch of ACLALS) Triennial Conference. Under construction: gateways and walls. Istanbul, Turkey. |
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| May 1 | RCS. Entries for Essay Competition close. |
| May 2-6 | ComSec. Second 18CCEM Planning Mission to Mauritius. |
| May 4 | RCS/ Plan International. Discussion meeting on recent publication Because you're a girl: growing up in the Commonwealth. C'wealth Club, 1830. http://www.thercs.org/society/research |
| May 9 | CEC. Rebuilding the Athens of West Africa: Education in Sierra Leone in the 21st. Century. Celebrating 50 years of independence. Cttee Room 7 House of Commons 1730-1930. |
| May 9-11 | ComSec. Workshop on Evidence-Based Advocacy for Gender Mainstreaming in Education. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. |
| May 9-13 | ComSec. Regional Consultation on Teachers Professional Standards, Mauritius. |
| May 11 | CEC. CSFP Support Group. ACU, Woburn House, 20-24 Tavistock Sq. 1300 |
| CF. Regional (Cyprus/Malta/UK) Civil Society pre-CHOGM Consultation: Marlborough Ho. | |
| May 12 | CF. Board Meeting. |
| CF. Briefing for CW associations on new grant reporting procedures. Marlborough Ho. 1400 | |
| May 13 | Comsec/CF. Commonwealth Organisations' Consultation. Marlborough House. 1100 |
| Mid-May | COL. VUSSC Trans-Qualifications Framework (TQF) Portal Meeting, Vancouver, Canada |
| May 15-17 | RCS. Reinvigorating Commonwealth Civil Society: The International Meeting of the RCS 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Contact international@thercs.org |
| May 17 | ICS/
University of West of England. One-day seminar The United Kingdom Overseas
Territories: Continuity and Change. Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, U.of
London 1000. More information: dmkillingray@hotmail.com |
| May 18 | CF. Online registration for the Commonwealth Peoples Forum begins. www.cpf2011.org . |
| CEC. ExtraordinaryBoard & Committee Meetings. Marlborough Ho. From 1130 . | |
| May 19 | ICS.
Language Policy/Practice Series. Virgilio Juvane, Education Adviser, Commonwealth Secretariat. Topic: Language policy and practice in Mozambique: mapping nuanced transitions. Venue: STB3/6 (Stewart Ho., basement; Senate Ho., U. of London) 1730-1900. |
| May 19-21 | COL. Regional Focal Points Meeting (Africa). Mauritius. |
| May 25 | COL-UNESCO. Open Education Resource workshop, Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania |
| May 25-27 | CAM. Commonwealth Museums: Culture, Economy, Climate Change and Youth. Triennial General Assembly and programme hosted by the National Heritage Board, Singapore at the Asian Civilisations Museums. |
| eLearning Africa - 6th International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training (including COL representation/presentations). Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. | |
| May 28 - June 1 | Canadian Association for the Study of Educational Administration (CASEA), (affiliated via Canadian Society for the Study of Education to CCEAM). National Conference. |
| May 31-June | ComSec. Second meeting of Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment Protocol Advisory Council. Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire. |
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| June | CASTME. Generator. Mauritius. |
| June |
CBC. Africa
Business Forum, featuring sessions on Education across Africa, London.
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| June 1 |
RCS. Entries
for Photographic Awards close
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| June 7-8 | COL Board of Governors Meeting. Vancouver, Canada. |
| June 7-9 |
ComSec. Consultation
meeting with the Pacific Assn. of Teacher Educators. Apia, Samoa
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| June 8-9 |
ComSec/UNESCO
International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA). Sixth
Commonwealth Research Symposium on Teacher Mobility, Recruitment and Migration.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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| June 8-12 |
Caribbean-Canada
Emerging Leaders' Dialogue 2011. Growth through connection - enabling
sustainable progress, Barbados.
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| June 13-14 |
CBC. Caribbean
Investment Forum, featuring sessions on Education in the Caribbean region.
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
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| June 16 |
ICS. Language
Policy/Practice Series. John Beaven, Translation Department, General Secretariat,
European Union, Brussels. Room G34, Senate Ho, Ground Floor. 1730-1900.
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| June 13-14 | CBC. Caribbean Investment Forum, featuring sessions on Education in the Caribbean region. Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. |
| June 23-26 | SPACLALS (South Pacific branch of ACLALS) with Victoria University, Conference on Reading and Writing in the Pacific, Wellington, New Zealand. |
| June 27-30 | Caribbean Regional Forum on Early Childhood Education and Development. French's House, Kingstown, St Vincent and the Grenadines. |
| June 28 |
CEC. AGM and
Annual Conference Breaking in, Breaking through - Commonwealth Women in
Science and the Professions. At British Council HQ, Spring Gardens, London
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| June 29 | CASTME.
AGM 14.00 - 14.30. Venue to be confirmed. Consultative Committee Meeting 14.30. Venue to be Confirmed |
| June/July | COL. VUSSC/INTEL Capacity Building in ICT, Pacific Region. To be confirmed |
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| July 1 | RCS. Entries for Vision Awards close |
| July 7 or 14 | CEC. Governing Board. |
| July 11-14 | Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting (CLMM). Sydney, Australia. |
| July 13-15 | SAACLALS (Southern African branch of ACLALS). With Association of University Teachers of Southern Africa. Annual conference. Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. |
| July 14 | ICS. Language Policy/Practice Series. Symposium on Pan-Commonwealth themes: details to be confirmed. Room 275, Stewart House, U of London. 1400-1700. |
| July 18 (week of) | ComSec/Malaysia MoHE and partners. 3rd planning meeting on Commonwealth Tertiary Education Facility (CTEF). London. |
| July 22-24. |
SLACALS (Sri
Lankan branch of ACLALS). Biennial Conference. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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| July 24 |
CTG. Convention,
incl. election of new members of CTG Co-ordinating Committee. The Convention
is within the 6th World Congress of Education International (Jy 19-26),
Cape Town.
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| August 27-28. | EACLALS (European branch of ACLALS) Conference on Postcolonialism and Labour, London |
| August 30-31 | ACU. Meeting of contributors to ACU History. London |
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| September 2 | Commonwealth Foreign Ministers, meeting in New York, expected to receive Civil Society Statement addressed to Perth CHOGM. |
| September 5-7 | COL. Regional Focal Points Meeting (Pacific). New Zealand. |
| September 7-13 | C'wealth Games Federation. IV Commonwealth Youth Games. Douglas, Isle of Man, UK. |
| September 13-15 |
UK Forum for International
Education and Training. 11th International Conf. on Education and Development.
Global Challenges for Education:Economics, Environment and Emergency.
Oxford
www.ukfiet.org/conference. Enquiries to sjeffery@cfbt.com |
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September 25-28 |
St Edmund's College,
Cambridge with The Open University and COL. 14th Cambridge International
Conference on Open, Distance & e-Learning 2011. Theme: Internationalisation
and Social Justice: the role of Open Distance and e-Learning, Madingley
Hall, Cambridge. camcon@st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk,
http://www2.open.ac.uk/r06/conference
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| September 26-28 |
COL. Regional
Focal Points Meeting (Asia). Malaysia
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| September 27 | CYEC. Annual Forum and AGM. . |
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| October 3-7 | Australian
Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL - affiliate of CCEAM). - Global Emerging Leaders' Summit. October 3 and 4 Adelaide, Australia. - Annual National Conference and AGM. October 5-7 Adelaide, Australia |
| October 10-14 | Nigerian Association for Educational Administration and Planning (NAEAP - affiliate of CCEAM) Conference. Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma |
| October 24-27 | Commonwealth Youth Forum. Perth, Australia. |
| October 25-28 | Commonwealth Peoples Forum (civil society) - including a strand on education. Perth, Australia. |
| October 28-30 | CHOGM. Perth, Australia. |
| Oct 25-Nov 11 (tbc) | UNESCO General Conference. Paris. |
| October 28 | CEC/CCE with Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Schooling and the Transformation of Young Women' s Lives: Commonwealth Perspectives. Cambridge. |
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| November (tbc) | COL. Regional Focal Points Meeting (Pacific). New Zealand. |
| November 11-20 | RCS. Commonwealth Gala Awards Week (winners of Young CW Competitions in London) |
| November 12 | CCL/CCLEF in association with the Commonwealth High Commissioners and their spouses. The Commonwealth Fair, Kensington Town Hall, 1130-1800. Admission £5.00. To raise money for girls' secondary education in the Commonwealth. Details at www.ccl-int.org |
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| December 2011 | CEC. The Gladwyn Lecture. Palace of Westminster. |
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| 2012 | |
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| January 9-11 | Education World Forum, London. |
| January 27-29. | IACLALS (Indian branch of ACLALS) Annual conference. Venue tbc. |
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| February 6 | Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth, Head of the Commonwealth |
| Late Feb/ early Mar | CEC. Commonwealth Secretary General's Briefing on CHOGM 2011 and the EPG report |
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| March 12 | COMMONWEALTH DAY |
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| April 12 | WIACLALS (West Indian branch of ACLALS). 31st Annual conference. Date and venue tbc. |
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| May 21-25 | CCfE/LCD and others. Workshop on Achievable Education for All. Uganda. |
| May 26-28 | CACLALS (Canadian branch of ACLALS). Annual conference. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. |
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| July 8-10 | British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society (BELMAS, affiliate of CCEAM), Annual Conference, Educational Leadership in an Age of Globalisation. The Robinson's Executive Centre, Wyboston Lakes Centre. |
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| August 27-30 | 18th
CONFERENCE OF COMMONWEALTH EDUCATION MINISTERS (18CCEM). Mauritius. Presentation of Education Good Practice Awards. |
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| September 20-22 | CCE. The Power of Caribbean Poetry - Word and Sound Cambridge (Homerton College/Faculty of Education) http://caribbeanpoetry.educ.cam.ac.uk |
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| October 3-5 | Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL - affiliate of CCEAM). Annual National Conference and AGM. Brisbane, Australia. |
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| November 3-7 | CCEAM. Biennial Conference, Board Meeting and BGM. New Trends, New Challenges in Educational Leadership and Management, Grand Resort Hotel. Limassol, Cyprus. |
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| 2013 | |
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| ACU Centenary (1913-2013) | |
| Date tbc | COL. The Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7). Venue tbc |
| October-November | CHOGM |
| Contacts/Key to acronyms (* = CCfE members, + = Associates) | TOP |
ACS* - Association of Commonwealth Studies email: michael.twaddle@sas.ac.uk
ACEAB* - Association of Commonwealth Examination and Accreditation Bodies
ean21@cam.ac.uk
ACLALS* - Association of Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies
email: Ranjini.Mendis@kwantlen.ca
ACU* - Association of Commonwealth Universities www.acu.ac.uk
BECM* - British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol www.empiremuseum.co.uk
CAM* - Commonwealth Association of Museums www.maltwood.uvic.ca/cam/
CAPA* - Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa polymis@swiftkenya.com
CASTME* - Commonwealth Association of Science, Mathematics & Technology
Teachers www.castme.org
CBC+ - Commonwealth Business Council www.cbcglobelink.org
CCE - Centre for Commonwealth Education, U.Cambridge www.commonwealth.org.uk/CentreForCE/ci
CCEAM* - Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management
www.cceam.org
CCEM - Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers
www.15ccem.org and www.16ccem.org
CCfE - Commonwealth Consortium for Education www.commonwealtheducation.org
CCL - Commonwealth Countries
League www.ccl-int.org
CCLEF - Commonwealth Countries' League Education Fund www.ccl-int.org.uk
CEC* - Council for Education in the Commonwealth www.cecomm.org.uk
CF - Commonwealth Foundation www.commonwealthfoundation.com
CHEC* - Commonwealth Human Ecology Council www.chec-hq.org
CHOGM - Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
CLGF - Commonwealth Local Government Forum www.clgf.org.uk
COL - Commonwealth of Learning
www.col.org
ComSec- Commonwealth Secretariat www.thecommonwealth.org
CPSU* - Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit www.cpsu.org.uk
CRT+ - Commonwealth Rel;ations Trust (of the Nuffield Foundation) www.nuffieldfoundation.org)
CSCUK - Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom
www.cscuk.org.uk
CSFP - Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
CTG + - Commonwealth Teachers' Group
CUSAC - Commonwealth Universities Study abroad Consortium www.acu.ac.uk/cusac
CYEC+ - Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council www.cyec.org.uk
ESU* - The English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth www.esu..org
ICS* - Institute of Commonwealth Studies www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies
LCD* - Link Community Development www.lcd.org.uk
LECT* - League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers www.lect.org.uk
NAEAP - Nigerian Association for Educational Administration and Planning
www.naeap.net
RCEAM - Rajasthan Council for Educational Administration and Management
RCS+ - Royal Commonwealth Society www.rcsint.org
ROSL+ - Royal Over-Seas League www.rosl.org.uk
UNESCO - United nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
www.unesco.org
VUSSC - Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth www.col.org/vussc
This Calendar is compiled on behalf of the Commonwealth
Consortium for Education by
Peter R. C. Williams Hon. Sec., Commonwealth Consortium for Education, www.commonwealtheducation.org
Personal contacts: peterrcwilliams@onetel.com
Telephone: +44 (0)1306 501788
PLEASE ADVISE THE COMPILER OF ANY APPROPRIATE EVENTS
FOR INCLUSION.
THE NEXT EDITION OF THE CALENDAR IS EXPECTED TO ISSUE IN July 2011.