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Quality in education
will be the theme of the fifth Research and Policy Dialogue being
organised by Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development
(AKU-IED) in Lahore from March 4 to 5, 2003.
Participants
will include Khushnood Lashari, Secretary Education, Government
of Punjab, representatives of federal and provincial governments,
academic institutions and community, as well as policy think-tanks,
NGOs, and researchers from both public and private sectors.
The dialogue will explore
and debate issues of quality across the education sector in Pakistan, with particular
focus on quality at the different stages of schooling and the current system.
Finally, it will also recommend steps towards achieving quality in the education
system in the country.
This programme concludes
the series of five dialogues on key issues in education. Four policy
dialogues on Teacher Education, Decentralisation in Education and
Effective Resource Utilisation through Public-Private Partnership
in Education, and Curriculum Reforms, were held earlier in Karachi,
Islamabad, Quetta and Peshawar in 2002 and early 2003.
Aga Khan University
is part of Aga Khan Development Network, a group of private international
development agencies, founded by His Highness the Aga Khan, which
work in the developing countries of Asia and Africa.
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