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| SERIES
ON EDUCATION THEMES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE |
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 Paris,
15 March 2000 - This new series has been planned by Inter
Press Service ahead of the World Education Forum which will
take place in Dakar, Senegal, from 26 to 28 April 2000. |
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| Some
180 countries are participating in the April global conference
to plan solutions and policies for meeting the Education for
All (EFA) goals in the new century. The EFA initiative began
in 1990 in Jomtien, Thailand. |
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| In
preparation for Dakar, governments were mobilised to critically
assess their achievements and identify more effective and appropriate
strategies, the results of which have been presented and debated
at six regional conferences between December 1999 and February
2000. |
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| The
IPS features will focus on education themes and also the efforts
of non-governmental organisations to universalise education.
They will be drawn from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America,
North America and The Caribbean. |
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| This
package of ten stories is the first of five scheduled to move
between March 10 and April 25. The series has received financial
assistance from the International Consultative Forum on Education
for All. |
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The following articles were featured
in the first package
released on 10 March:
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| (CHINA)
Beijing - It should have been a cause for jubilation but it
made hundreds of Chinese parents worry when the Ministry of
Education announced that primary school students were not going
to get homework in the coming semester. |
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(TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO)
Port of Spain - Continuing education -- evening classes for
working people -- has undergone a huge transformation over the
last decade in Trinidad and Tobago as thousands of people of
all ages seek to improve their marketability. |
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| (EASTERN
EUROPE) Berlin/Warsaw - The great upheaval in the politics
and the economy of Eastern Europe over the last 10 years --
since the end of the Cold War -- has had a major impact on education,
which was one of the success stories of communism. |
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| (MEXICO)
Mexico City - At the World Education Forum to be held in Dakar
in April, Mexico will share its 32 years of experience in teaching
by television and its more recent advances in the use of satellites
and Internet in education. |
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| (DEVELOPMENT)
IPS World Desk - Progress in educating girls in Sub-Saharan
Africa has been ''excruciatingly slow'' over the last 10 years,
says an education expert from the region. |
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| (SWAZILAND)
Mbabane - Troubled by an unemployment rate of 45 percent and
devastated by a high HIV infection rate of at least 25 percent,
Swaziland has decided its salvation lies in the educational
advancement of its people. |
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