[TimorLesteStudies] Timor-Leste: Building a post-conflict education system

[Bob Boughton]

Boughton, B. (2011). Timor-Leste: Building a post-conflict education 
system. In L. Symaco & C. Brock (Eds.), Aspects of Education in 
South-East Asia (pp. 177-196). Oxford: Symposium Books.
http://www.symposium-books.com/books/bookdetails.asp?bid=77
SUMMARY
Timor-Leste, South East Asia's newest nation, achieved its 
independence in 2002, after five hundred years of colonial 
occupation, and a brief period of direct United Nations rule. Its 
population of only one million people remain among the poorest in the 
region, though this is set to change in coming years as a result of 
revenue flowing into the state budget from its newly-won off-shore 
oil reserves. The first independence government which was led by 
FRETILIN, the party which had launched the liberation struggle in 
1974, was committed to a rapid expansion of education and health 
services, and significant progress has been made, particularly in 
primary schooling and adult literacy. A major political crisis in 
2006-07 revealed the ongoing differences between elements of the old 
Resistance, the Catholic Church and the international donors, and, 
while stability has returned to the country, the legacies of 
colonialism and war are expected to have a major impact on the 
emerging education system in the foreseeable future.


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Dr. Bob Boughton
Associate Professor, Adult Education & Training
School of Education
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351, Australia

phone:	+61 2 67732913
email: bob.boughton at une.edu.au


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