{"id":3322,"date":"2021-09-18T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/aftra-conference-comes-to-lesotho"},"modified":"2021-09-18T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T12:04:14","slug":"aftra-conference-comes-to-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/aftra-conference-comes-to-lesotho","title":{"rendered":"AFTRA conference comes to Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\">Lesotho<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Africa Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities (AFTRA) conference is rotationally held every year within member states and this year the conference will be held in Lesotho on May 14-18, 2019 under the theme \u201cTeaching<\/p>\n<p>and learning in Africa for global competitiveness,\u201d AFTRA is an intergovernmental organization for the regulation of teaching in Africa. It draws its membership from the 54<\/p>\n<p>African countries, their ministries of education, statutory national agencies regulating the teaching profession, universities and colleges of education,<\/p>\n<p>national teachers union, and civil society organizations in education. It was inaugurated in Abuja, Nigeria in October 2010 by the then Nigeria\u2019s Honorable<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Education. The organization aims to ensure an African continent with a globally competitive teaching profession. It intends to raise teachers\u2019 education, practice and status to the highest possible<\/p>\n<p>standards in the African continent. According to the statement issued by the Ministry of Education and Training, the conference is special as it will award AFTRA Medal of honor to deserving ministries and presidents who have made<\/p>\n<p>meaningful contributions in the education of their countries. There will also be the convocation of special ministerial sessions to present to African Ministries of Education, the<\/p>\n<p>10 year report of AFTRA and partners (AFRICAN Union Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) Teacher Development Cluster amongst others. The expectation is that the African<\/p>\n<p>Union Honorable Commissioner of Human Resources, Science and Technology will be the rapporteur of the special Ministerial Session. The statement further showed that the best teachers who have made remarkable contributions to the development of the teaching profession in African member states will also be recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. The Africa Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities (AFTRA) conference is rotationally held every year within member states and this year the conference will be held in Lesotho on May 14-18, 2019 under the theme \u201cTeaching and learning in Africa for global competitiveness,\u201d AFTRA is an intergovernmental organization for the regulation of teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":3321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,8,16],"tags":[233,246,228,245],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-education","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AFTRA conference comes to Lesotho - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/aftra-conference-comes-to-lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFTRA conference comes to Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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