Education

13.05.2008 Best practices in preventing and eliminating child labor through education by Child Rights Information Network helps users design and implement capacity-building activities for children in situations of child labour. The book documents experiences of over 80 NGOs and possibilities of change through educational interventions.

23.04.2008 UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report: Education for All by 2015? Will we make it? provides a mid-term assessment of where the world stands on its commitment to provide basic education for all. The report stresses on the need to make education more inclusive through adequately financed and targeted measures.

11.04.2008 Using Edu-tainment for Distance Education in Community Work is a guide to creating distance education radio, TV and internet programmes in the Edu-tainment format. Clear and concise, the book is a valuable resource for NGOs, donors, programme managers, writers and producers working in developing countries.

10.05.2007 Kailash Satyarthi, President, Global Campaign for Education, a movement of Global March Against Child Labour, asserts the need for a massive increase in aid for education. He claims that the World Bank and the European Commission are deluding people on education funding, as was witnessed at the Education Conference held on 2nd May 2007 at Brussels.

04.05.2007 The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006 aims to shine a stronger policy spotlight on the more neglected goal of literacy - a foundation not only for achieving EFA but, more broadly, for reaching the overarching goal of reducing human poverty.

11.01.2007

23.11.2006 The South Asian region contains most of the children in the world who are denied sustained access to basic education. Most of the countries in the region share a common socio-cultural context albeit one which is itself very varied.

08.09.2006 The 2006 Global Monitoring Report, Literacy for life, measures the world's progress towards achieving the six Education For All goals, and especially the neglected one of universal literacy.

28.07.2006 The document makes recommendations for improving access to primary education of good quality for all children, especially the poorest. It compiles the outcomes of the several experts’ meeting on Primary Education for All Children.

08.06.2006 The right to education is at the very heart of UNESCO's mission and is an integral part of its constitutional mandate.

05.06.2006 The present report contends that view, argues that gender equality is not coherently assimilated neither by the current theoretical trends in education nor by the practices of the formal and informal systems, and provides conceptual clarity.

12.02.2006 Mr Rohit Dhankar, Director Digantar says that "language teaching in Digantar is directly linked with our perception and understanding of education. To share our way of language teaching we will have to start with the relevant parts of this perception and understanding"

09.02.2006 Education for all cannot be achieved without dramatic improvements in the quality of learning. Yet in many countries, a large gap exists between the number of students graduating from school and those among them mastering a minimum set of cognitive skills.

09.02.2006 Partnerships for Girls' Education document and analyse the achievements and challenges of actual partnerships for girls' education, sharing detailed case studies from Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Peru, and sub-Saharan Africa, and suggesting strategies for progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

09.02.2006 UNICEF highlights the importance of protecting rights of child which is also in accordance with fulfilling MDGs

09.02.2006 The study focuses on the largest low-income countries that are furthest from the goal, home to about seventy five percent of the children out of school globally. By analyzing education policies, and financing patterns in relatively high-performing countries, the study identifies a new policy, and financing framework for faster global progress in primary education.

09.02.2006 This is the year that the world will miss the first, and most critical of all the Millennium Development Goals – gender parity in education by 2005. Over the next decade, unless world leaders take drastic action now, unacceptably slow progress on girls’ education will account for over 10 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths, will cost poor countries as much as 3 percentage points in lost economic growth, and lead to at least 3.5 million avoidable cases of HIV/AIDS.

09.02.2006 The EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006 aims to shine a stronger policy spotlight on the more neglected goal of literacy - a foundation not only for achieving EFA but, more broadly, for reaching the overarching goal of reducing human poverty

24.10.2005 The government of India is seriously thinking of asking all private schools in India to reserve 25 per cent seats for poor children. The draft committee on Right to Education Bill 2005 feels that without the participation of private institutions, it is impossible to achieve universalisation of education.

19.10.2005 This brief is based on the Report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality.