CREATE Symposia: UKFIET Conference 11-13th September, 2007

The CREATE Team ran a one day symposia at the UKFIET Conference ‘Going for Growth? School, Community, Economy, Nation’ on 11th September 2007, in Oxford UK.

Conference proceedings

CREATE was represented by all partner institute coordinators as well as a number of researchers involved in the project. Presentations covered the conceptual framework of CREATE, country studies and cross national reviews. Copies of papers were made available to participants.

The timetable of events was as below. Follow the links for presentation summaries, full papers and / or links to documents:

Times	Title	Speaker (s)	Key document and link

11.00- 11.20	Introduction to CREATE	Prof. Keith Lewin	Improving Access, Equity and Transitions in Education: Creating a Research Agenda Power point presentation
11.20-11.40	Reconceptualising Access in Bangladesh	Dr Manzoor Ahmed	Access to Education in Bangladesh: Analytic Review of Primary and Secondary Education and Research Insights Power point presentation
11.40-12.00	Reconceptualising Access in Ghana	Dr Jospeph Ghartey Ampiah and Dr Kwame Akyeampong	Access to Basic Education in Ghana: The Evidence and the Issues and Research Insights Power point presentation
12.00-12.20	Reconceptualising Access in South Africa	Dr Shireen Motala	Educational Access in South Africa; An Analytic Review and Research Insights Power point presentation
12.45-1.30 Lunch	Open meeting: Mix and Mingle CREATE, EdQual and Recoup
1.30-1.50	Reconceptualising Access in India	Prof. R Govinda	Access to Elementary Education in India: Identifying Gaps and Priorities and Research Insights Power point presentation
2.00-3.00	CREATE Reviews and Studies – Presentations and discussion based on CREATE Pathways to Access papers	Dr Pauline Rose	NGO provision of basic education: alternative or complementary service delivery to support access to the excluded?
		Dr Pat Pridmore	The Impact of health on education access and achievement: A cross-national review of the research evidence.
		Dr Mairead Dunne and Dr Kwame Akyeampong	School Processes, Local Governance and Community Participation: Understanding Access.
		Caine Rolleston	Policies on Free Primary and Secondary Education in East Africa
		Tony Somerset	Primary School Enrolment Trends over Four Decades
3.30-4.30	CREATE Reviews and Studies – Presentations and discussion based on CREATE Pathways to Access papers (continued)	Prof. Angela Little	The Political Economy of EFA – Towards a Conceptual Framework
		Dr Nicole Blum	Small Schools in India, NGO Experiences
		Dr Frances Hunt	An Analytic review of School Drop Outs
		Prof. Brahm Fleisch	School Participation from Birth-to-Twenty: Evidence from South Africa’s Childhood Cohort Study
		Dr Alison Croft	Disability and access to basic education in low income countries
4.30-5.00	Group Discussions on CREATE

Also in attendance and part of the CREATE Team were members of the Consortium Advisory Group (Paud Murphy, Prof. Swarna Jayaweera, Steve Packer and Prof. Pai Obanya) Anupam Pachauri and Dr Moses Oketch.

Below are photos from the event