Briefs

Rebuilding Iraq’s universities A multi-million dollar initiative to rebuild and revitalize Iraq’s once thriving universities was launched last October by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Misnad, Qatar’s First Lady, and UNESCO. More

Education at the World Summit on the Information Society Equitable access to education is key in the building of knowledge societies. This was one of UNESCO’s key messages to the World Summit on the Information Society last December, in Geneva, Switzerland. More

Africa gets 150 new community multimedia centres UNESCO and the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation has launched a multi-million dollar project to provide marginalized communities in Mali, Mozambique and Senegal with access to information and communication technologies, including Internet. More

Repetition at high cost in Latin America and the Caribbean Due to low performance, high numbers of students repeat the school year in many Latin American and Caribbean countries. More

Education rights of indigenous peoples On your first day at school you find that the teachers do not speak your language, in fact, they don’t even want you to speak your language. More