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Education
UNESCO aims to:-
Promote primary and lower secondary education as a fundamental right for every Caribbean citizen;
Contribute to the improvement of educational services delivered in the Caribbean at primary and lower secondary levels;
Promote experimentation, innovation and the dissemination of best practice.
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Education & ICTs
UNESCO works towards ensuring that the benefits of the new information and communication technology are made available to children and young people, with a view to improving their daily life and opening up job opportunities for them.
Education for Sustainable Development
In December 2002, the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and UNESCO was designated as lead agency for the promotion of the Decade.
Education Plans & Policies
UNESCO assists policy and decision-makers to develop a clear vision and relevant implementation strategies to take up the challenge of achieving sustainable human development, poverty reduction, the promotion of universal human values and tolerance, and the challenge of new information and communication technologies.
Literacy
Literacy plays and important role in the vision and hopes for equity, justice, peace and development around the world.
Non-Violence Education
UNESCO promotes Non-violence as an holistic theory and practice that rejects aggression and violence in order to achieve goals or resolve conflicts in a constructive way.
Caribbean's Education & HIV/AIDS Clearinghouse
This site provides access to Caribbean-related resources and facilitates charing of information on key events in the region and internationally.
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 01 May 2007 CUPIDE public lecture series on distance education:
The current situation and perspectives for distance education in Haiti will be explored on May 4 as part of a series of public lectures held throughout the Caribbean, under the auspices of the UNESCO-UWI Caribbean Project for Integrated Distance Education (CUPIDE). More |
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23 Jan 2007 UNESCO and OECS host meeting of Ministers of Education on HIV & AIDS
The UNESCO Office for the Caribbean, in partnership with the OECS Secretariat and the Education Development Centre, will host a special leadership meeting for Ministers of Education on Advocacy and Leadership in HIV & AIDS and Education, on 27 January, 2007 in Roseau, Dominica. More |
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07 Dec 2006 Caribbean Launch of 2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report
More than 200 persons, including children, from five countries participated in the Caribbean launch of the 2007 EFA Global Monitoring Report held on December 6 in Kingston, Jamaica. Organized by the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean in partnership with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, the event brought together a diverse array of stakeholders from more than 50 organizations engaged in early childhood care and education. More |
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16 Oct 2006 Launch of EDUCAIDS Jamaica
Kwame Boafo, the newly appointed Director of the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean, and Minister of Education and Youth of Jamaica, the Honourable Maxine Henry-Wilson, formally launched the EDUCAIDS initiative to strengthen the country’s education sector response to HIV and AIDS. More |
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12 Feb 2005 UCC to offer distance teaching IESALC
LAST year, the privately run University College of the Caribbean (UCC) graduated its first batch of 700 students since the institution gained university status, cementing for founding chairman Winston Adams that UCC has made a difference to the tertiary education market. More |
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12 Feb 2005 UWI director outlines critical areas in ASC development IESALC
If Antigua State College is to remain the core tertiary institution of Antigua & Barbuda, these are the "critical" areas that the Director of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Tertiary Level Institutions Unit Dr. Bevis Peters said needed to be implemented: Academic affairs. More |
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11 Feb 2005 Northerrn Caribbean University (NCU) to open $55m Kingston campus IESALC
Northerrn Caribbean University (NCU) is scheduled to open its $55 million Kingston campus on Thursday.
The new campus, located at Half Way Tree Road, has a capacity for 600 students, and will centralise the two off-campus operational bases for the Mandeville-based NCU. More |
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SANDWATCH Workshop on an Educational Tool for Sustainable Development Port Royal, Jamaica 29 Nov 2005 - 01 Dec 2005
UNESCO Office for the Caribbean and Jamaican National Commission for UNESCO will hold a workshop for Jamaican educators on Sandwatch. Sandwatch is an educational approach to sustainable development, evolved from the UNESCO Small Islands Voice and Associated Schools Network project Sandwatch. The project originally started in the Caribbean in 2001, and since then, it has been introduced in many schools in Small Island Developing States around the world. More |
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Education and HIV/AIDS Quarterly Report by UNESCO Office for the Caribbean - March 2007 UNESCO
The purpose of this e-report is to share information on support to the education sector by the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean and other UN entities in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the region. It is not an official document of the organisation. If content of this report is used in another report or publication,
acknowledgement of the source would be appreciated. More |
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Workshop Programme
Joint Board of Teacher Education
in Association with CIDA/GOJ ENACT Programme
and United Nations Educational
Scientific and Cultural Organization More |
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