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EDUCATION

Nepal

Nepal joined UNESCO on May 1, 1953. The Organization has an office there, based in Kathmandu.

A UNESCO Chair for Teacher Education has been established in 1997 at Kathmandu University.

Nepal is also home to one UNEVOC centre. As of September 2006, Nepal has 86 schools participating in UNESCO’s Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet).

Asia and Pacific countries meet in Dhaka to accelerate literacy 2008-01-17 9:26 am UNESCO

Fourth UNESCO Regional Literacy Conference to open in New Delhi 2007-11-27 11:00 am UNESCO

Designing mother tongue/bilingual literacy programmes in Asia 2007-06-19 11:00 am UNESCO

Global Action Week: UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific network promotes EFA 2007-05-03 2:00 pm UNESCO Bangkok

Asia-Pacific region assess progress towards Education for All@ 2007-02-27 11:00 am UNESCO Bangkok
Some 100 participants from countries, civil society organizations and UN agencies involved in education are attending the workshop. They will contribute to the review of draft national EFA MDA reports and preparations for the sub-regional reports.

Countries that regularly participate in the coordinators’ meeting are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Lao PDR, Korea (Republic of), Korea (DPR), Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste and Viet Nam.

Contact: efa@unescobkk.org

Asia-Pacific: UNESCO and UNICEF host workshop on early childhood policy@ 2007-02-06 11:00 am UNESCO Bangkok
Participants from China, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and Viet Nam are expected to endorse new regional guidelines and an overall workplan.

Contact: m.hayashikawa@unescobkk.org

Case study on Girls’ Education in Nepal 2006-01-10 2:00 pm UNESCO Kathmandu
Winning people’s will for Girl Child Education” describes the process, outcomes and lessons learnt from a UNESCO project to educate girl children in two communities in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.