UNESCO - Education for All

2001

NetAid World Schoolhouse in search for new education projects December 21, 2001 - Netaid invites its members to submit two-page concept papers for consideration for the Netaid World Schoolhouse, a campaign launched to make access to quality education a reality for all children. Projects should promote access to education for the poorest and most excluded children and concept papers should be received in English, French, or Spanish by 15 January 2002. Instructions for submission of concept papers / Current examples of NetAid World Schoolhouse projects Comfort zone can end wars December 14, 2001 - Poverty, deprivation and lack of education have long been recognized as a potent cocktail for encouraging conflict. The Times Educational Supplement reports on how the world's major powers are facing this challenge. There are references to The World Education Forum in Dakar 2000 and the recent High-Level Group meeting on EFA. More Save the Children UK policy paper on education in emergencies December 14, 2001 - Save the Children in the United Kingdom has published a policy paper on education in emergencies, which provides practical guidelines for field staff as well as positions to support SC UK's advocacy work. More India makes education a fundamental right December 14, 2001 - Education is now a fundamental right for all Indian children in the age group of 6-14 years. This is the result of the 93rd Constitutional Amendment Bill recently passed in Lok Sabha, India's House of the People. The Bill has been pending since 1997. More Agreement reached on major education reform in the United States December 12, 2001 - The House-Senate conference committee of the United States yesterday agreed on a final version of President George Bush's education reform bill, the "No Child Left Behind Act." The agreements reached will result in fundamental reforms in classrooms throughout the United States. This is the most sweeping reform of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) since it was enacted in 1965. More The UIS Governing Board puts Education for All on the agenda December 10, 2001 - The Governing Board of UNESCO's Institute for Statistics (UIS) has unanimously agreed that the EFA Observatory, the monitoring body on Education for All will be a priority for the Institute's activities in 2002. The final resolution of the Board recommended that UIS should 'play a prominent part in compiling the EFA Monitoring Report 2002 in order that there should be an independent and robust analysis of countries' progress towards the Dakar goals'. More EFA consultation in Pakistan November 27, 2001 - The Pakistan Government accords high priority to the provision of basic education to children in need and other disadvantaged groups of population, said the Federal Minister for Education, Mrs Zobaida Jalal yesterday during a national consultation meeting on Education for All. More on paknews.com National EFA co-ordinators of East and South-East Asia to meet in December November 27, 2001 - The fourteen national EFA co-ordinators of East and South-East Asia are invited to attend a meeting from 10-12 December in Bangkok, Thailand, to consider the status of national EFA action plans in the subregion. MoreEducation for All Task Force under preparation November 27, 2001 - As stipulated in the Communiqué of the recent High-Level Group meeting in Paris, UNESCO is now working to set up a Task Force to operationalize the Dakar Framework for Action. More National EFA co-ordinators of East and South-East Asia to meet in December November 27, 2001 - The fourteen national EFA co-ordinators of East and South-East Asia are invited to attend a meeting from 10-12 December in Bangkok, Thailand, to consider the status of national EFA action plans in the subregion. More Education for All Task Force under preparation November 27, 2001 - As stipulated in the Communiqué of the recent High-Level Group meeting in Paris, UNESCO is now working to set up a Task Force to operationalize the Dakar Framework for Action. More Educating the world - opinion article by Gene Sperling in today's New York Times November 22, 2001 - "If the world really wants Afghanistan to reinvent itself as a stable and functional nation, it must help Afghans assure education for their children. And at the same time, the United States and other wealthy nations should seize the moment to get all of the world's children into school," writes Gene Sperling, Director of the Forum on Universal Education at the Brookings Institution today in the New York Times. More New regional website on Education for All in Latin America and the Caribbean November 22, 2001 - UNESCO has launched a new website devoted to EFA in Latin America and the Caribbean. Hosted by UNESCO Santiago, the new website, features the action of fifteen multilateral and bilateral development partners working together to move forward education in this region. The site is available in English and Spanish. At least 17.5 million children work in Latin America, ILO Says November 21, 2001 - At least 17.5 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 work in Latin America, many of them in high-risk areas, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said in a recent two-day meeting of human rights attorneys in San Jose, Costa Rica, according to the Chinese Xinhua News Agency. More Development Committee: EFA is one of the most powerful instruments in the fight against poverty November 19, 2001 - Education for All was singled out as one of the most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and laying the basis for sustained growth in a communiqué adopted yesterday by twenty-four Ministers of Finance or Development at the 64th meeting of the Development Committee held in Ottawa, Canada. The Development Committee is a forum of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund that advises the Boards of Governors of the Bank and the Fund on critical development issues. Up-date on EFA efforts in Africa November 16, 2001 - The second issue of the EFA Africa E-Bulletin is now available. Published by UNESCO Dakar, this issue covers EFA action in Congo, Cape Verde, Cameroon, Mozambique and Senegal. It also reports on several recent events concerning EFA in Africa. More New information kit and brochure on EFA November 15, 2001 - A new information kit and brochure on EFA, published by UNESCO, take stock of the major issues facing the EFA movement some eighteen months after the World Education Forum in Dakar. While the information kit has been designed as an easy-to-use and up-to-date source of quick reference for all those involved in the EFA endeavour, the EFA brochure is aimed at a more general public. Information Kit / Brochure (to receive a hard copy of either of the two) Education is not a tradable good, warns-EI November 14 , 2001 - Education International, in a meeting about the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) with the World Trade Organisation, insisted that the objective of Education For All can only be attained through quality education services publicly funded and regulated by the State. More New study on lessons in education spending November 9, 2001 - Schooling for all is achievable provided governments are willing to reform both private and public costs, improve efficiency, and give expenditures on primary schooling their proper priority. This is the conclusion of a new study by Christopher Colclough and Samer Al-Samarrai of the Institute of Development, University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. More First meeting of the High-Level Group on EFA opens on Monday October 27, 2001 - Twenty-nine key decision-makers including Ministers/heads of development agencies, Education Ministers and civil society organizations will gather next week for the first meeting of the High-Level Group on EFA (29-30 October, UNESCO's headquarters in Paris). More 32 Countries Risk Failing Education Pledge October 26, 2001 - 32 countries are at grave risk of failing to enrol all children in primary schools by 2015. In fifteen of these countries, less than half of children are attending school. This warning is contained in a monitoring report released today on Education For All (EFA), a global compact that commits countries to achieve universal primary school enrolment, reach full gender equality in primary and secondary enrolment, and cut adult illiteracy levels in half, all by 2015. Press Release - Reference documents Key decision-makers to participate in high-level group on EFA Several prominent leaders and eighteen ministers of education and international co-operation from developing and developed countries will attend the first meeting of the high-level group on Education for All, 29-30 October at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris. More - Provisional Agenda - Provisional List of Participants New web forum to promote public debate on education in Latin America and the Caribbean UNESCO's Regional Office of Education for Latin America and the Caribbean has launched a new internet-based consultative forum on the Regional Education Project, 2001-2015. The forum will be available from 17 September to 31 October 2001 and the results will be presented at the meetings of Vice-Ministers of Education (November 2001) and of Ministers of Education (March 2002). More Meeting of African national EFA co-ordinators in Paris National co-ordinators from forty African countries gather in Paris this week to discuss the preparation of national EFA action plans and develop regional mechanisms for the EFA follow-up. The three-day meeting was opened by UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education John Daniel. (Speech) More