GENDER MAINSTREAMING OFFICE

UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

Announces her

1st INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY
CONFERENCE

THEME:

GENDER AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA: EMERGING ISSUES

MARCH 12th – 13th, 2013

VENUE: CONFERENCE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN, NIGERIA

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Gender Mainstreaming Office (GMO)

Students Affairs Building

University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Website:www.ui.edu.ng/content/gender-mainstreaming-office

E-mail:gmpunibadan@gmail.com

ABOUT GMO

Gender Mainstreaming Office (GMO) is a unit of the University of Ibadan under the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, (Academic). The University of Ibadan has been in the forefront of gender research and advocacy in Nigerian and African Universities since 1986.

The Initiative in UI

In 2007, the MacArthur Foundation gave a grant to initiate the Gender Mainstreaming Programme (GMP) in UI. The programme was designed to formulate a Gender Policy (GP) for the university, and to introduce gender mainstreaming process as a core program in the University of Ibadan so that the institution can apply a gender lens to all aspects of its activities routinely. This will enable women and men to share resources and power on a fair basis, make and implement policies which will ensure equity and redress any form of disadvantage. An additional grant from the University enabled the GMP to prepare a separate Sexual Harassment Policy. A Series of workshops for sensitization, advocacy, consensus-building and peer education led to the formulation of the GP and SH policy and the establishment of the GMO. This forth-coming conference is the first to be held by the GMO.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACT AND MANUSCRIPT

Prospective authors are expected to submit abstracts, indicating the sub-theme category of their abstracts to:

gmoconference2013@gmail.com

or

gmoconference2013@mail.ui.edu.ng

Abstracts should not be more than 250 words on 12 point, MS Word, Times New Roman

Authors should include their phone number(s), functional e-mail addresses and institutional affiliation.

The full paper should not be more than 7,000 words

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15st January, 2013

Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 31st January, 2013

Submission of full paper: 10th February, 2013

REGISTRATION FEES

Local participants: N10,000.00

(Students N7, 500)

International participants $100.00

(Students $75.00)

Gender remains a benchmark for the measurement of institutional and national advancement, and, the vanguard for engineering positive societal change and transformation. Gender responsiveness has remained relevant in the assessment of a nation’s human development index. In Africa, education, as a key instrument of human and societal advancement, has the mandate to offer direction and shape societal values to further enhance the quality of life of women and meninthe society.

Gender equity in higher education (HE) in Africa has gone beyond the traditional issues of social and cultural factors that impede men and women’s access to higher education. The first International Interdisciplinary Conference of Gender Mainstreaming Office, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with the theme: Gender and Higher Education in Africa: Emerging Issues, provides the context for scholars from diverse disciplinary and theoretical orientations to re-visit gender issues in higher education in Africa.

Conference Objectives

To explore divers ways in which gender intercepts higher education in Africa in ways previously undocumented;

To examine emerging issues in gender-related problems and challenges across African institutions;

To provide an inter-disciplinary context for understanding core gender-related issues.

Sub-themes

Gender Equity in Higher Education

Gender, Leadership and Governance in Higher Education

Gender, e-learning and Distance Education in Higher Education

Gender, Quality Assurance and Higher Education

Gender-based Violence in Higher Education

Gender, Research and Curriculum Development in Higher Education

Gender, Global Economic Recession, Cost Sharing and Higher Education

Gender and Mentoring in Higher Education

Gender, Institutional Culture and Higher Education

HIV/AIDS and Gender in Higher Education

Femininity and Masculinity in Higher Education

Gender, Science and Technology in Higher Education

Gender, Civil Conflict and Higher Education

Gender, Agriculture and Higher Education

Institutional Framework for Engendering Higher Education in Africa

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