Date :

18 February 2010

Time :

14:15 – 15:30

Presenters :

Prof Vinayagum Chinapah

Prof Chinapah joined IIE in 1976 and served in different professional and research capacities from a lecturer up to the present position. He took leave from IIE in 1992 to be at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris as Director of the Joint UNESCO-UNICEF International Programme on Monitoring the Quality of Education and Learning Achievement which covered some 80 countries world-wide between the period of 1992 and 2006. He served for one year as UNESCO Regional Education Adviser for the Arab States, UNESCO Regional Office, Beirut, Lebanon (2007  – 2008) before returning back to lead IIE in January 2009.

Prof Chinapah is a member of various research associations and research councils. He is an author and co-author of some 65 books, chapter in books, scientific journal articles as well as some 150 reports, conference papers, training manuals and prototypes for capacity building workshops world-wide. He has done research, training and consultancies for several UN, international, bilateral and Swedish agencies in some 140 countries over the past 35 years.

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The audio presentation for the seminar is available for download

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Venues

Cape Town: HSRC, 12th Floor, Plein Park Building (Opposite Revenue Office), Plein Street , Cape Town. Contact Vuyokazi Ngxubaza, Tel (021) 4668004, Fax (021) 461 0299, or VNgxubaza@hsrc.ac.za , Cell: 082 0508453   

Durban: First floor HSRC board room, 750 Francois Road, Ntuthuko Junction, PODS 5 and 6, Cato Manor. Contact Johannes Khoele, Tel (031) 2425400, Cell; 084 2406 003 or JKhoele@hsrc.ac.za 

Pretoria: HSRC Video Conference, 1st floor HSRC Library Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius Street, Pretoria. Arlene Grossberg, Tel: (012) 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za , Baby Twala, Tel (012) 302-2368, E-mail: Btwala@hsrc.ac.za.