CREATE Breaking News

This page provides an update of recent progress on CREATE, including work by the country teams and individual researchers.

CREATE Teams

Ghana

	The CREATE Country Analytic Review is being published by the Ministry of Education along with a Policy Brief based on its findings. A National Symposium will take place to provide a forum for policy dialogue on the issues raised in the Review and to discuss thematic research taking place within CREATE. Dates and more details will be available in due course.

South Africa

CREATE was asked to make a submission to the Ministerial Committee on Retention in South Africa. The final report is now available on the CREATE website and recognises the CREATE model of access in its thinking [click here for a full copy of the report]. A meeting of the National Review Group is also planned in May 2008 alongside a review, planning, and dissemination workshop at the University of Witwatersrand.By this time new Pathways to Access papers should be available. Gift Luxomo has also joined the South African team.

India and Bangladesh

	CREATE is planning a joint dissemination event with RECOUP at NUEPA in December 2008. RECOUP and CREATE partners will present findings from field work and secondary data analysis to a regional audience based on the research outputs available at that time. BRAC-IED from Bangladesh will present insights from their fieldwork.

CREATE People

On 21st April 2008, CREATE hosted a Review Team at the University of Sussex as part of its midterm review process. The day-long meeting was a productive and positive discussion of the project, its progress to-date and its future development. A final report on the review is expected in the next month. (from left to right: Keith Lewin, Terri Kelly, Sue Kinn, Henrietta Wells, Angela Little, Kwame Akyeampong and Jim Keery)

Professor Keith Lewin and Dr Pauline Rose met with DFID advisors in February to discuss contributions to the core script that DFID is developing. Short briefing papers on access issues will be produced.

Dr Pauline Rose, who has been leading on research on multiple providers with a special interest in Bangladesh, will be on secondment to the EFA Global Monitoring Report in Paris for two years from 30 March 2008.

Dr. Kwame Akyeampong has been invited to contribute to the Ghana Education Sector review by the World Bank and will also be developing thematic work on the impact of capitation systems on access in Ghana.

Dr Yusuf Sayed, formerly Senior Policy Analyst to the EFA Global Monitoring Report, has joined the South African research team to advise on fieldwork products and to undertake a study of the impact of fee free schooling.

Dr Nicole Blum, who has been working with the CREATE teams in London and Delhi, has joined CREATE in Sussex as a Research Fellow with special responsibility for the communications strategy.

Dr Fran Hunt (CREATE Research Fellow, Sussex) is on maternity leave and has given birth to a baby girl.

Caine Rolleston, CREATE researcher in London and ESRC-funded PhD student, will spend 3 months from April at ISSER at the University of Ghana, during which time he will work with members of the CREATE Ghana team.

Luke Akaguri (DPhil Candidate, Sussex) will be undertaking fieldwork in Ghana from mid-2008 on private education and the poor.

Eric Ananga (DPhil candidate, Sussex) will also undertake fieldwork in Ghana focusing on the experiences of drop outs.

Stuart Cameron (DPhil candidate, Sussex) is currently undertaking field work in Bangladesh at BRAC IED on household decision making on schooling in urban areas.

Asayo Obha (DPhil candidate, Sussex) is extending her work in Kenya to include a follow up study of access to secondary schools after the recent policy changes.

Anupam Pauchari (Commonwealth Scholar, Sussex) will be undertaking fieldwork in Rajasthan later this year to explore relationships between multiple providers and the State.

Gaurav Siddhu (DPhil candidate, Sussex) is developing his proposal to undertake research on health and nutrition and transitions into secondary schools in India.

Stephanie Buckland (Commonwealth scholar, Sussex) will join CREATE in September 2008 to work on cross border migration and access issues in Southern Africa.

New Publications
Professor Keith Lewin is launching a new book: ‘Strategies for Sustainable Financing of Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa’ at the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) biennial Ministerial conference in Maputo in May where he will be an invited speaker. The book is published by the World Bank and is available at: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFRREGTOPSEIA/Resources/Study1_Financing.pdf

CREATE policy briefs are now available on line (click here). The first four draw from the Country Analytic Reviews. Subsequent policy briefs take up specific themes or topics and provide four pages of focused discussion to inform policy dialogue.