2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 - 10.00am to 12.00pm
Lerner Hall, Columbia University. New York, NY
UNESCO's invites to the International launch of the 2011 Education for All Monitoring Report "The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education".
Violent conflict is one of the greatest development challenges facing the international community. Beyond the immediate human suffering it causes, it is a source of poverty, inequality and economic stagnation. Children and education systems are often on the front line of violent conflict....
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Education for All - Global Monitoring Report 2009
Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance matters
Despite much progress since 2000, millions of children, youth and adults still lack access to good quality education and the benefits it brings. This inequality of opportunity is undermining progress towards achieving Education for All by 2015.
Who are these individuals and groups? What are the obstacles they face? How can governance policies help break the cycle of disadvantage and poverty? What policies work? Is education reform integrated into the bigger picture? Is the international community making good on its commitments?
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UNESCO World Conference 2009
UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development - Moving into the Second Half of the UN Decade
31 March - 2 April 2009 - Bonn. Germany
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Education for All - Global Monitoring Report
Education for All by 2015 - Will we make it?
is available for downloading in the six UN languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Russian and Spanisch.
Unlike the five earlier editions, this year’s Report does not focus on a single theme, but offers a mid-term review of progress across the six EFA goals since 1999. It identifies the main achievements and the main challenges.
Also viewable in the six languages is the Summary Report, which presents the key messages and highlights in a shorter and less technical form.
Other resources of interest include the regional overviews and background papers searchable by author, theme, year, country or region.
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UNESCO launches new Literacy Portal
In support of its efforts to achieve global literacy, UNESCO has launched its new Literacy Portal. The Portal consolidates UNESCO´s literacy programme and serve as a gateway to sharing information on projects and activities all around the world
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UNESCO Online Platform
UNESCO opens online platform for planning multi-stakeholder implementation of WSIS Plan of Action
UNESCO has now opened an online platform to facilitate initial contacts among stakeholders and to launch activities under the Action Lines of the Geneva Plan of Action that are in the area of competence of the Organization.
This includes the following action lines:
- C3: Access to information and knowledge
- C7: E-learning and E-science
- C8: Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content
- C9: Media
- C10: Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
Development of Home Economics Education - Version 1979
UK document for UNESCO on trends in Home Economics - 1979: New trends in the Home Economics Education
Edited by
Vincent G. Hutchinson
Head of the
Department of Home and Professional Studies,
F. L. Calder College of Education,
Liverpool (United Kingdom)
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