Opening Session

• Opening Remarks by Masaharu Nakagawa, Senior Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
  (Read by Isao Kiso, Director-General for International Affairs on Behalf of Masaharu Nakagawa)
• Opening Remarks by Tetsuro Fukuyama, Senior Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan(Read by Hiroki Owaki, Deputy Director-General on Behalf of Tetsuro Fukuyama)

 

• Executive Summary

 

Special Lecture

• “Educational Development and International Cooperation Toward 2015 and Beyond”
  Koichiro Matsuura, Former Director-General, United Nations Educational,
  Scientific and Cultural Organization
• Summary and Questions & Answers with Special Lecturer

 

Keynote Speech

• “Beyond the Controversy of Quantity vs. Quality: Challenges for Education in the post 2015”
  Fay King Chung, Former Minister of Education, Sports and Culture of Zimbabwe
• Summary, PPT and Questions & Answers with Keynote Speaker

 

Panel Session 1 
“Five Years Left until 2015: What Should be Our Priority?”

• Moderator:
  Prasad Sethunga,
  Head, Department of Education, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

  Panelists:
  Charles Aheto-Tsegah,
  Director, Planning, Budgeting, Monitoring & Evaluation Division, Ministry of Education, Ghana
  Hideo Eguchi,
  Deputy Director General, Human Development Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
  Divya Jindal-Snape,
  Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Social Work and Community Education, University of Dundee, Scotland
  Carolyn Rodriguez,
  Head, Knowledge Management Office, Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization – Regional Center for Educational Innovation and Technology (SEAMEO INNOTECH)

 

• Dialogue between Speakers and Participants

 

Panel Session 2
“Educational Challenges of the Post 2015 – What does a Vision for the Near Future Tell Us?”

• Moderator:
  Akira Ninomiya,
  Director, Hiroshima Study Center, the Open University of Japan

  Panelists:
  Carol Mutch,
  Senior Advisor to the Chief Education Officer, Government of New Zealand
  Sylvia Schmelkes,
  Head, Institute for Research on Development of Education, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico
  Abdul Rashid Mohamed,
  Dean, School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
  Pierre Kouraogo,
  Associate Professor, Department of Anglophone Studies and Department of Translation and Interpretation l’UFR/LAC – University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

 

• Dialogue between Speakers and Participants

 

Concluding discussions

• Concluding discussions