<<February 25, 2000>>
Dr. Marco Antonio R. Dias <mardias@club-internet.fr>
Timo Portimojarvi <hotipo@uta.fi>
Dear Marco:
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(1) Many thanks for your excellent bio (ATTACHMENT I).
Dear Electronic Colleagues:
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(2) Sorry I could not attach this to my last listserve distribution,
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this arrived to me just a few minutes later of my distribution.
Dear Timo:
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(3) Pls include this in our Tampere event web site at
<http://www.uta.fi/EGEDL/Outline>.
Thanks.
Best, Tak
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ATTACHMENT I
Brief Biography of
Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias
Journalist in the sixties, he worked for several newspapers
in Belo
Horizonte (Minas Gerais) and S o Paulo. He was director of "Folha
de
Minas"(1963), editor of "Ultima Hora-SP"(1965)
and director of Radio Jornal de
Minas (1968-69).
In 1963, he was adviser of the Ministry of Education Paulo
de Tarso
Santos, in charge of links with the Parliament, member of a team
highlighted
by the presence of experts such as Paulo Freyre, Herbert Jos«
de Souza
(Betinho) and others.
BS (Bacharelado-five years) in Law by the Federal University
of Minas
Gerais (1964), he completed previously a course on Philosophy
in Rio de
Janeiro (three years). Later he got a diploma of "troisime
cycle" at the
University of Paris (1968) at the French Institute of Press and
Information
Sciences (Communication).
Author of several articles, chapter of books, documents on
communication, education, political matters, published in Portuguese,
Spanish,
French and English. In 1993, the Catholic Pontificial University
of Minas
Gerais published "O fato e a vers o do fato - um jornalista
nos anos
sessenta".
During almost 18 years, from October 1981 to February 1999,
he was
director of the Division of Higher Education in UNESCO, in charge
of
coordinating the program on higher education of the organization
at the world
level. He represented UNESCO at the Council of United Nations
University
(Tokyo), launched and coordinated the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme
of this
organization and was the main organizer of the World Conference
on Higher
Education which took place in Paris from 5 to 9 October 1998.
Retired since February 1999, he was invited to become member
of several
councils such as the Advisory Council of the College of Americas
of IUO -
Interamerican University Organization; of the Research Institute
of ANDIFES,
the Association of Public Universities in Brazil; of the International
Advisory Council of UNI-Sol (Universities Solidarity for the Health
of
Disadvantaged) a network of universities created by an international
conference held in Arizona (USA) in 1999, under the parrainage
of WHO and
UNESCO (Social Sciences Sector). He was also invited to be vice-president
of
Global University System (GUS), an international electronic network,
created
during another international conference in Tampere, Finland, in
1999.
Since September 1999, he assists the Rector of the United Nations
University in matters linked to the follow-up of the WCHE and
in the
organization and support to networks. He advises also the Polytechnic
University of Barcelona, in charge of the secretariat of the UNESCO/UNU
Forum
for Higher Education, created for the follow-up of the World Conference
on
Higher Education.
On special invitations, he attended conferences, made presentations
and
discussed projects in countries such as Finland, France, Spain,
United States,
Canada, Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
For his activities as director of the Division of Higher Education,
the
French Government decided to give him the decoration "L«gion
d'honneur"
(November 1999). In 1993, the President of Brazil granted to him
the
decoration of Ordem Nacional do M«rito Educativo’.
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Dr. Marco Antonio R. Dias
Vice President, Global University System
Consultant of United Nations University
Former Director, Division of Higher Education of UNESCO
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Timo Portimojarvi
Assistant
(Media Culture, Media Education)
Department of Teacher Education
University of Tampere
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