Oficina Internacional de Educación

Regional Focal Points are highly prestigious institutions or specialists in curriculum that are responsible for designing, managing and following up activities and projects in each defined region and within the framework of the Community of Practice in Curriculum Development. All activities are being agreed upon between the IBE and the regional Focal Points.

 

Through the Focal Points we currently cover the following regions:

Africa:

 

Africa in general:
Mrs L.N. Nzomo, Director, Kenya Institute of Education
Mr. Teeluck Bhuwanee, Programme Specialist of Secondary and Technical Education, UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Africa (BREDA, located in Dakar, Senegal)

Asia:

 

East Asia:

We are currently establishing a focal point for East Asia (China, Japan, ROK, DPRK and Mongolia)
 
China:
Mr. Zhou Nanzhao, Director of the Center of Education in the 21st. Century (China National Institute of Educational Research -CNIER-, Ministry of Education of China, Beijing)

 

South, Southeastern Asia and the Pacific:
UNESCO regional office in Bangkok – Education for Sustainable Development - see website.

 

Gulf Arab States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the Yemen):
Mr. Ali Bubshait, researcher, Gulf Arab State Educational Research Center (GASERC, located in Kuwait City, Kuwait)

 

Europe:

 

Eastern and South Eastern Europe:
Mr. Alexandru Crisan, Executive President, Center Education 2000+ (Bucharest, Romania)

 

Commonwealth of Independent States - CIS (Armenia, Azerbajdjan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) and Latvia:
Mr. Iouri Zagoumennov, Head of Department, Comparative Education Department at the National Institute of Education of the Ministry of Education of Belarus

Nordic European Region:
Ms. Irmeli Halinen, Director of Preschool and Basic Education Development and Ms. Ritva Järvinen, Planning Specialist, Finnish National Board of Education.

 

Latin America and the Caribbean:

 

Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil):
Ms. Silvina Gvirtz, Dean, and Mr. Mariano Palamidessi, professor and researcher, School of Education of the University of San Andres (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

 

Andean Region (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela):
Mr. Manuel Bello, Dean, and Ms. Veronica Villaran, researcher and teacher, Faculty of Education of the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia

 

Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama):

Ms. Floridalma Meza Palma, former Technical Vice-minister, Ministry of Education of Guatemala
Mr. Marvin Herrera, Secretary, Educational and Cultural Council of Central America (CECC)