PCF5:CYP - Open Schools: Assessing the impact in reaching the marginalised communities

Title of session
Open Schools : Assessing the impact in reaching the marginalised communities

Session details

 * Date: 14 July 2008
 * Time: 14.00
 * Room: Committee Room 1

Session papers

 * Dr. Zobaida Akhter, Working status of secondary and higher secondary school certificate students of Bangladesh Open University: the impact of poverty alleviation (117)
 * Dr. Kabir Mia, Elimination of worst forms of chid labour and poverty alleviation through distance education (538)
 * Dr. Sushimita Mitra, Social justice in education: the role of open schooling (136)

Key Issues that arose in the session

 * How to conduct personal contact programmes and find suitable tutors for prison centres
 * Have tracer studies for the certified jail inmates
 * Develop appropriate technology for child labour for ODL e.g. community radio
 * Staff development for all ODL functionaries
 * Provide vocational skills to the jail inmates

Points for future action (Policy, recommendations, commitments etc.)

 * Develop specific programmes for child labour
 * User-friendly policy for integration of ODL graduates of prisons
 * Explore appropriate technology for vulnerable groups including prison inmates