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Since 1934, the International Bureau of Education has
organized the International Conference on Education (ICE),
which provides a forum for dialogue between ministers of
education. While ministers play the most active role
during the ICE, other partners also participate in the
dialogue: researchers, practitioners, representatives of
intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations.
Participants are invited by the Director-General of
UNESCO. Despite its intergovernmental nature, the
Conference is open to all those concerned by the topic to
be discussed.
The theme of the ICE of 2001 will be "Education for all for
learning to live together: contents and learning strategies
- problems and solutions". Two major topics will be
covered: Discussion Unit I will focus on "Quality
education for all: living together, democracy and social
cohesion", while Discussion Unit II will cover "Quality
education for all: knowledge, technology and the future of
the school".
For each session of the ICE, the IBE asks Member States
to present a national report on the development of
education. These reports are distributed widely, both
during the Conference to delegates and afterwards to
governmental documentation centres. They represent a
major source of up-to-date information for the preparation
of IBE's databanks, World data on education and
INNODATA, as well as contributing to past editions of the
UNESCO World education report.
The main objectives of the forty-sixth session of the ICE
will be to examine and to discuss in an open and profound
manner aspects connected with the quality of education
for all and to launch a new phase of international dialogue
on the contents, methods and structures of education.
The Conference is also intended to be innovatory in its
organization and dynamic. The context of UNESCO gives
it a global dimension and it should draw the greatest
possible benefit from what represents its real worth: the
inter-regional dimension, so that each region may benefit
from the experience of the others.
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