Education
- Fri Mar 02 2007
Calls to improve post-primary education in Eastern and Southern Africa
Experts and education officials from 20 countries in Eastern and
Southern Africa are calling upon governments and development agencies
to pay greater attention to the large number of children who fail to
proceed to secondary school because of limited opportunities.
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Education
- Thu Feb 15 2007
WSF 2007: Proposal for action on the right to learn
Numerous organizations working on education and other social movements from around the world gathering at the World Social Forum in Nairobi that took place 20 to 25 January 2007 issued the following proposal on the right to learn.
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Education
- Mon Feb 05 2007
War enters the classrooms
The United Nations has indefinitely suspended elementary school classes for tens of thousands of Gaza City's children following a weekend of unprecedented factional violence, which turned this isolated enclave into a war zone and left at least 27 dead and 250 wounded.
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Education
- Fri Jan 19 2007
ICAE World Assembly in the framework of the WSF
From 17 to 19 January, in the framework of the WSF, the ICAE will be holding its 7th World Assembly, "Adults' Right to Learn: Convergence, Solidarity and Action", with the participation of some 200 educators from around the world.
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Education
- Thu Jan 18 2007
World falling behind on 2015 education goal
Access to education increased dramatically over the past century but 323 million children worldwide are still not in school and efforts to achieve universal primary education by 2015 are likely to fail, a new study said.
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Education
- Fri Jan 12 2007
Education at the WSF 2007
The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) together with other international organizations will hold a series of workshops during the World Social Forum 2007 in Nairobi regarding the role of education in social movements.
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Education
- Fri Nov 10 2006
ICAE 7th World Assembly draft programme
See the draft programme of the 7th World Assembly of the International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) to be held January 17-19, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya alongside the World Social Forum. (PDF)
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Education
- Fri Oct 13 2006
Adults' right to learn: convergence, solidarity and action
The Kenya Adult Learners' Association and the Pan–African Association for Literacy and Adult Education are facilitating the commission on Adult Learner’s Movement and Mobilisation during the International Council for Adult Education, 7th World Assembly which takes place between 17th and 19th January 2007 in Nairobi.
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Education
- Thu Oct 05 2006
Investment in quality teachers needed to achieve education for all
Governments around the world must improve salaries and working conditions in education if they are to avert a predicted shortage of 18 million teachers and achieve the Millennium Development Goal of Education for All by 2015.
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Education
/World Peace and Security
- Tue Sep 12 2006
43 million children out of school because of conflict
More than 43 million children living in countries wracked by war and armed conflict are being left without the chance to go to school, according to a new report by Save the Children.
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