The 16th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (16CCEM) will be held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 11-14 December 2006. The theme of the Conference is 'Access to Quality Education: for the Good of All'. Held triennially, these conferences provide an opportunity for Commonwealth Education Ministers from all regions to exchange views and discuss developments in education, review progress over the past three years, and develop strategies for future work.

Catholic universities should pay more attention in all their disciplines to the Church's social doctrine, recommended participants at an international conference convoked by the Holy See. Such attention to social doctrine would allow the Gospel to penetrate deeper in the social fiber, in order to defend and promote human dignity, the common good, solidarity, and justice and peace, they stated last Friday (17 November 2006), the first day of the conference.

Between 20-25 participants drawn from policy advocacy coalitions and organisations working on the African Union attended a conference held on the 10-11th November in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Joined by staff from the AU Commission and five African Embassies they offered comments on the preliminary findings and recommendations of research into how African Governments, the AU Commission and CSOs prepared for the January and July 2006 Summits.

Fahamu, Networks for Social Justice, is seeking a dynamic, entrepreneurial and socially committed educator to join us as Programme Director of Fahamu’s Education for Social Justice programme. Based in Nairobi, you will have national, continental and international responsibilities for developing, managing and expanding distance-learning and other capacity building initiatives