Alex also met with the World Bank to introduce the IPN and to pave the way for Lynn from MiET who will meet with them again in June! No concrete outcomes yet but a good start to discussions with the World Bank!
The final meeting of the trip was with Ranjit Sidhu, another former associate of Betsy and Alex when he worked at the National Asscoiation of Partners in Education (NAPE), here in Washington. He now is a director of ACT inc which is a national organisation which provides tests and assessments. They have, in particular , assessments for workplace readiness (ie in the learning to earning arena). Ranjit has contacts across the US which we hope to be able to tap in to. He is interested in the conference in South Africa and will also talk to the International arm of ACT. He talked about new routes to accessing partnership activity across the US and also mentioned the Community College movent and ACT’s work with them and the Partnership approaches they adopt.
http://act.org/
Again, we will be keeping in touch and hope he will join us in Durban!
The final meeting of the trip was with Ranjit Sidhu, another former associate of Betsy and Alex when he worked at the National Asscoiation of Partners in Education (NAPE), here in Washington. He now is a director of ACT inc which is a national organisation which provides tests and assessments. They have, in particular , assessments for workplace readiness (ie in the learning to earning arena). Ranjit has contacts across the US which we hope to be able to tap in to. He is interested in the conference in South Africa and will also talk to the International arm of ACT. He talked about new routes to accessing partnership activity across the US and also mentioned the Community College movent and ACT’s work with them and the Partnership approaches they adopt.
http://act.org/
Again, we will be keeping in touch and hope he will join us in Durban!
Ranjit and Alex
