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Education is key to the development of Africa.
Today a little more than half of African adults are literate and some 60 per cent of children go to school. UNESCO works to keep education high on the agenda of governments and development partners working in the region.
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Africa Week at UNESCO
May 20, 2005 - (UNESCO) A series of events, entitled “Africa Week”, will take place next week at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Africa Week is organized on the occasion of Africa Day, celebrated on May 25 every year.
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Unshackling literacy in Africa
April 18, 2005 – (UNESCO Institute for Education) If Africa’s populations are to attain an acceptable level of well-being, the search must go on for ways of meeting the challenge of illiteracy, concludes a new UNESCO publication.
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Planning quality education for all in North Africa
This week national Education for All coordinators from five North African countries will discuss the issue of quality education. They will meet at a three-day regional seminar in Tunisia. The seminar will examine how the Education for All goals have been taken into consideration in national plans of the region. It will also seek to define the notion of quality of education in an operational way.
The countries concerned are Algeria, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
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UNESCO supports African teachers
African teachers are at the heart of UNESCO’s efforts. The Organization is launching a new initiative for teacher training in sub-Saharan Africa. This programme will help countries develop the policies, teacher education, and labour practices that will be required, if the Education for All goals are to be achieved.
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Education for All conference opens in South Africa
February 7, 2005 - (UNESCO) Education for All is the theme of a three-day meeting that opens today in Johannesburg, South Africa. Participants are national EFA Coordinators, NGO representatives and education experts from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The gathering "Joining Hands and Taking Action for Education for All" is co-hosted by World Education, the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and UNESCO.
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Saving lives, saving minds
January 28, 2005 - (UNESCO) New minimum standards for education in emergencies aim at giving over 50 million children a chance to learn, reports the just-published issue of UNESCO's Education Today newsletter. The standards are highly relevant for the countries devastated by the recent tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
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Wanted! Teachers
Thirty million teachers are needed to achieve Education for All by 2015. Faced with an unprecedented teacher shortage, some countries are now turning to low-paid, poorly trained teachers. The recent issue of UNESCO's Education Today newsletter looks at the trade-off between quantity and quality.
It also report with an project in Cambodia which provides skills training to children and youth and on recent education initiatives around the world.
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Great success for non-formal learning centres in Madagascar
January 17, 2005 - Intensive literacy classes have proven effective in Madagascar. After just 48 days of intensive learning, more than 3 out of 4 participants could be considered “literate.”
This is one of the encouraging findings of a recent evaluation report of the Government of Madagascar / United Nations System Joint Programme for the Promotion of Basic Education for All Malagasy Children.
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UN launches $27 million flash appeal for education after Tsunami
January 7, 2005 - (UNESCO) Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today launched a $977 million flash appeal for emergency aid to tsunami victims. Some $27 million are needed for reestablishing education in Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Seychelles, Somalia and Sri Lanka. This amount will cover the critical work of some forty UN agencies and NGOs from January to the end of June 2005.
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