Educational Institutions providing or promoting primary and secondary education are invited to submit their projects, programmes, policies, or strategies which have made a positive difference to their teachers, students or educational system in respect of the following Action Areas: -
• achieving Universal Primary Education;
• eliminating Gender Disparities in Education;
• improving Quality in Education;
• mitigating the impact of HIV in education systems;
• supporting Education in difficult circumstances;
• using Distance Learning to overcome barriers;
• using Education to promote Sustainable Development;
• promoting Civil Paths to Peace.
Winners will be sponsored to present their initiative at the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers in the Bahamas 22-26 June 2015.
CRITERIA FOR SUBMISSIONS
Relevance: The good practice demonstrates a socio-culturally sensitive and economically appropriate response to the context and challenge of education delivery in a specific country.
Measureable impact and effect: The value of the good practice is measures through qualitative and quantitative indicators to demonstrate impact and effect.
Sustainability: The good practice is or can be projected to have a positive impact and effect whether intermittently at intervals, or on a consistent long-term basis.
Efficiency and effectiveness: The good practice demonstrates the efficient and effective use of resources in its implementation.
Community participation and contribution: The success of the good practice is enhanced or enriched through community and civil society participation, ownership or contribution.
Replication: Given similar conditions and circumstances, the good practice has the potential to be replicated in other Commonwealth Countries.
Submissions must be made by completing all sections of the application form available at www.thecommonwealth.org/education and sent to educationawards@commonwealth.int no later than Thursday January 15th 2015, or posted to:-
The Coordinator
Education Good Practice Awards
Commonwealth Secretariat Marlborough House
Pall Mall, London SW1Y %HX,
United Kingdom
For more Information on this award and application forms, please contact the Co-ordinator at educationawards@commonwealth.int or telephone the Secretariat at +44 207 747 6223. Late submissions, as well as submissions from individuals will not be accepted.
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