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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Education
- Tue Sep 12 2006
Major OECD report fails to call for greater public investment in education
The OECD's influential annual report stops short of urging member governments to significantly increase their investment in public education.
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Education
- Thu Sep 07 2006
ICAE World Assembly in Nairobi
The International Council for Adult Education (ICAE) will hold its World Assembly January 17-19, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya alongside the World Social Forum. The Assembly is open to all ICAE members, partners, friends as well as to all those networks aligned closely with the adult education and learning movements.
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Education
- Thu Aug 31 2006
Lebanese, Iraqi and Palestinian children denied education as the new school year starts
The Lebanese government is working in collaboration with Unicef and the UNESCO to ensure that all children across the south attend school by the newly revised national school start date of 9 October - three weeks later than the norm. However, there is some scepticism as to the government's capacity to fulfil its pledge.
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Education
- Fri Jul 28 2006
Kenya: stopping pregnancy from being the end of the educational road
Are the effects of teenage pregnancy on the education of girls being addressed with sufficient vigour in Kenya? With statistics indicating that pregnancy accounts for 31 percent of all school drop-out cases among girls, this is a question that begs asking.
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Education
/Indigenous Peoples
/African Descendants
- Wed Jul 26 2006
Brazil: race quotas accused of racism
The imminent approval of a law that establishes obligatory quotas for Afro-Brazilians and indigenous peoples at public universities, has sparked a resurgence of the controversy about how to combat racism and inequality in Brazil.
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Education
- Wed Jul 19 2006
More schools, but many children aren't learning
World Bank investments in education may be sending more children to school across the world, but the quality of learning is poor and many children are not gaining better skills as originally hoped, the Bank's own watchdog says.
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