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Day 1 Details
 April 4th, 2012                        
9:30 -11:00 Session 1 Opening: Welcome and Two Keynote Addresses
11:00 - 11:30 Tea break 
11:30 - 13:30 Session 2 Learning relevance and learning outcomes; at what cost?  
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 16:30 Session 3 Early beginnings for bridging the Quality Inequality Gap
16:30 - 17:00 Tea break 
17:00 - 18:30 Session 4 Teacher education:  models that work
 
Day 2 Details
 April 5th, 2012
9:00 -11:00 Session 5 Teacher education models that work
11:00 - 11:30 Tea break 
11:30 - 13:30 Session 6 Education financing for bridging the inequality gaps
13:30 - 14:15 Lunch break
14:15 - 16:15 Session 7 Learning relevance and learning outcomes; at what cost?
16:15 - 16:30 Tea break
16:30 - 18:15 Session 8 Closing; Conversations, Keynote & Vote of thanks ETS/ITA-SAFED
18:15 Tea and Refreshments
 
Day 3
 April 6th, 2012                      
(for out of station guests) Visit to the Walled City & Museum
 
Day 1 Go to Top
 April 4th, 2012
Session 1
9:30 - 11:00
Opening
Speakers
Baela Raza Jamil - Director Programs ITA
Dr. Michael Nettles Senior Vice President ETS
    (Video Conference)
Dr. Rukmini Banerji - Director ASER Centre India
Chair/Co-chairs
Bushra Gohar - MNA
Javed Aslam - Chairman P&D Punjab
Tea Break 11:00-11:30
 
Session 2
11:30-13:30
Learning relevance and learning outcomes: at what cost?
Speakers
Ravish Amjad - Research and Policy Analyst
    ASER Pakistan
Dr. Tariq Rahman - Dean School of Education
    Beaconhouse University
Aziz Kabani -Director Sindh Education Foundation
Chair/Co-chairs
Saira Afzal Tarar - MNA
Prof. Hafiz Iqbal - Dean IER University Punjab
Khadim Hussain - M.D Bacha Khan Trust
    Educational Foundation (BKTEF)
Lunch 13:30 - 14:30
 
Session 3
14:30-16:30
Early beginnings for bridging the Quality Inequality Gap
Speakers
Junko Miyahara - Coordinator Asia Pacific
    Regional Network for Early Childhood (ARNEC)
Amima Sayeed - Senior Manager Teachers
   Resource Centre
Kate Anderson Simons - Monitoring &
   Evaluation Consultant Brookings Institute
Chair/Co-chairs
Shahnaz Wazir Ali - MNA & Special Adviser
    to the Prime Minister on Social Sectors
Aslam Kamboh - Secretary Schools Punjab
Suman Bhattacharjea - ASER Centre India
Tea Break 16:30-17:00
 
Session 4
17:00-18:30
Teacher education models that work
Speakers
Gordon MacLeod - Director IG Research and
   Evaluation
Bernadette Dean - Principal St. Joseph’s College
Rahila Fatima - Senior Manager
    The Citizens Foundation (TCF)
Chair/Co-chairs
Muhammad Siddique Memon - Secretary Education
    & Literacy Sindh
Dr. Shahid Siddiqui - Professor & Director, Centre for     Humanities & Social Sciences, Lahore School of     Economics  (LSE)
Ameena Saiyid - M.D. Oxford University Press
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar - V.C Islamia     Univ.Bahawalpur
ETS Praxis Video-Conference:
     Sharing the Praxis series for Teachers' Licensure Presenters
    18:30-19:45
Praxis Team:
    George Powell and Seth Weiner
     Michael Nettles Senior Vice President ETS
 
Day 2 Go to Top
 April 5th, 2012
Session 5
9:00-11:00
Teacher education models that work
Speakers
Nadeem Irshad Kayani - Director Directorate of Staff
   Development (DSD)
Wenbin Hu - Manager Cambridge Education    Consultants
Tayyaba Tamim - Associate Professor
    Lahore School of Economics (LSE)

Chair/Co-chairs
Raja Mohammad Anwar - Chairman Punjab Education     Foundation
Munir Badini - Sec. Education Balochistan
Sarwat Jehan - Director PITE Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Zehra Arshad - National Coordinator
   Pakistan Coalition for Education
Tea Break 11:00-11:30
 
Session 6
11:30-13:30
Education financing for bridging the inequality gaps
Speakers
Ambreen Raza - MD Punjab Education Foundation
Yamini Ayiar - Director Accountability Initaitive India
Leah Verghese & Sujatha Muthayya - CCS & Azim    Premji Foundation India
Attaullah Wahidyar - Director Ministry of Education    Afghanistan
Chair/Co-chairs
Masooma Habib - Senior Fellow Center for Research &     Economics and Business Lahore School of Economics
Arshad Saeed Khan - Senior National Specialist
    Education UNESCO
Nargis Sultana - Program Officer Foundation Open     Society Institute
Lunch Break 13:30 – 14:15 p.m
 
Session 7
14:15-16:15
Learning relevance and learning outcomes; at what cost?
Speakers
Salaeya Butt - Research Manager Society for
    Advancement of Education (SAHE)
Zubeida Mustafa - Senior Journalist Social Sector
Arif Naveed - Senior Research Associate Sustainable
   Development Policy Institute (SDPI)
Chair/Co-chairs
Abbas Rasheed - Executive Director SAHE
Dr. A.H. Nayyar - Professor LUMS
Dr. Noreen Khalid - Program Manager Girls Education     Oxfam
Working Tea 16:15-16:30
 
Session 8
16:30-18:15
Closing; Conversations, Keynote & Vote of thanks ETS/ITA -SAFED
Speakers
Dr. Iffat Farah - Freelance Educational Developer
Ali Moeen Nawazish - Youth Ambassador GEO & OMS
Kasim Kasuri - CEO Beaconhouse School System
Chair/Co-chairs
Ahsan Iqbal - MNA , Deputy Chairman PML- N
Dr. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy - Professor LUMS
    & Quaid-e-Azam University
Tea and Refreshments 18:15
 
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