20-10-2009 Secondary Education in India: Universalizing Opportunity, World Bank’s latest report highlights the significance of secondary education in breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty and in determining the country’s economic growth. It recommends the use of innovative technologies and public-private partnership model for facilitating higher education in India.
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11-09-2009 UNGEI’s Overcoming Barriers to Girls’ Education in South Asia critically analyses the steps taken by South Asian countries in overcoming obstacles to girls’ education. The report offers feasible policy options and tools for advocacy to governments and other stakeholders to improve women’s access to learning.
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28-08-2009 Teachers can make a significant difference in fighting HIV/AIDS argues Leadership in the HIV and AIDS Response: A Toolkit for Teachers’ Unions to Promote Health and Improve Education. This publication trains teachers to help people make correct health-related choices to prevent the spread of infection.
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07-08-2009 Effective sexuality education is critical to reduce the risk of HIV, unintended pregnancy and coercive or abusive sexual activity, says UNESCO’s International Guidelines on Sexuality Education. The document outlines steps to ensure that children and youth have access to information needed in their personal, social and sexual lives.
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28-07-2009 A latest manual from UNAIDS, A Strategic Approach: HIV & AIDS and Education, brings out the need for enriching young minds with the basics of HIV/AIDS virus. Aimed at policymakers and practitioners, it shows how quality learning can help to mitigate the impact of the disease.
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02-07-2009 The Magic Bus, an illustrative flipbook by the International HIV/AIDS alliance, helps children to learn the basics of HIV/AIDS and its treatment. It beautifully weaves stories in simple language using cartoons that a facilitator can use to build awareness on the dreaded disease.
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26-06-2009 UNICEF has developed a manual on Child-Friendly Schools, that addresses total needs of a child as a learner and aims to create an environment that offers quality education to every youngster. It also includes an e-learning package for capacity building.
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10-06-2009 Save the Children’s new report: Last in Line, Last in School 2009 finds that nearly 40 million children worldwide are out of school in conflict-affected fragile states. With global financial crisis threatening investment in basic services, the report urges governments to prioritise education aid for children in emergencies.
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18-05-2009 State of the World’s Mothers 2009, the tenth annual report of Save the Children focuses on the inextricable link between the well-being of mothers and their children. The report provides effective solutions to early education challenges and the need for strategic policies in carrying out proven programmes.
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01-05-2009 World Bank’s latest report Educating Girls in the 21st Century highlights the gender disparities at the level of secondary education. Linking the issue with economic development, the report advocates interventions like scholarships and female teacher recruitment to increase enrollment of the girls.
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