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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
Decembre 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'.
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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.
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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.
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for All Task Force under preparation
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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).
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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)
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