UNESCO IN THE WORLD — UNESCO IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
 1993
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CO-OPERATION FOR DEVELOPMENT
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SCIENTIFIC CO-OPERATION IN CHINA
In 1946 the Preparatory Commission
creating UNESCO proposed the setting up of field science co-operation
offices to maintain more effective contact between the scientists and
technologists in those parts of the world remote from the main centres
of research and development and their colleagues at these centres. This
proposal was later endorsed and authorized by both the First and Second
Sessions of UNESCO’s General Conference.
Since UNRRA came to an end in China, the East Asia P.S.C.O. has taken over
the responsibility of ensuring that engineering equipment to the value of
about two million dollars reaches the various colleges and universities
for which it had been bought by UNRRA.
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TECHNOLOGIES IN THE SERVICE OF EDUCATION IN CHINA
A pilot project in China was based in Szechuan, run by an ex-
missionary, Hubbard, assisted by the Canadian artist, Norman McLaren, who is still
remembered today for his pioneering work in cinema. The project was intended to bring
adult education of a
practical nature to the peasants living in villages of a given zone; young teachers
travelled about, giving talks on health topics, food and farming problems, their main
arm being filmstrip projectors. To prepare the strips, McLaren and a local team of
artists worked by hand - they had no cameras or such-like sophisticated equipment.
Hubbard had obtained, free, from a closing U.S. airforce base a vast quantity of exposed
film.McLaren would cut off an appropriate length, etch on the black emulsion frame after
frame of pictures to tell the story of, say, how to combat the malarial mosquito. (15) His
assistants copied this to produce a dozen more, and then McLaren and a few of the gifted
artists went over the black-and-white strips to colour each frame. With these materials
the lecturers would hold their classes at dusk in each village, their projectors fed from
the batteries of their jeeps or small vans.I drafted in Avenue Kléber the booklet telling
this story, and a full collection of the splendid strips was
dutifully deposited in our archives. To conclude, the project was closed when the advancing
People’s Army reached the region, but we heard that Hubbard was then invited by the
Government in Beijing to continue his work with the Ministry of Agriculture.
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THE ‘SETI’ PROJECT, OR EDUCATION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Since joining UNESCO in 1953, Nepal has co-operated with UNESCO in over 200 educational
activities including the very successful ‘SETI’ project on Education for Rural Development.
The villages of the SETI zone can only be reached by foot and are rarely visited. Food was
limited, clean water rare, hygiene minimal, health care practically unavail-able and
education inadequate, es-pecially for girls.The Seti project was set up to help the
villagers improve the quality of their lives.
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NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL EQUIPMENT CENTRE (NEEC) Supported by UNESCO, the National Educational Equipment Centre (NEEC) was established in 1964, with its headquarters at Lahore. It is an autonomous organization administered by an independent board of Governors headed by the Federal Education Secretary. The main function of the Centre is to meet the increased demand for basic equipment and apparatus. The revision of curricula and increased emphasis on the new methods of instruction necessitated massive use of low-cost teaching materials in the classroom. NEEC was assigned the task of meeting this challenge.
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Colin N.Power (Australia) Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO, since 1989 Can anyone justifiably say that Education has mastered the communication technology so that its message can unravel the mysteries of learning to the teeming millions of illiterates - of whom 75 per cent are women and girls - in this region? Closing Address, MINEDAPVI, Kuala Lumpur, 1993
Shri P.V.Narasimha Rao Closing Session, Education For All Summit of Nine High-Population Countries, New Delhi, 1993
Victor Ordoñez Ministerial Review Meeting, Nine High-Population Countries, Jakarta-Bali, 1995
President Suharto Ministerial Review Meeting, Nine High-Population Countries, Jakarta-Bali, 1995
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This project aims to promote primary education for all, with particular attention to young girls and disadvantaged groups, and to develop technical and vocational train-ing, non-formal education and the application of new communication technologies to education.
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FOOTNOTES:
(15) The Healthy Village, UNESCO, 1951.
* Cumulative, in millions of current dollars (not re-evaluated) utilized for the implementation of projects involving UNESCO.
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