Full Coverage: Education

30.06.2005 Students from across the U.S. are spreading the message to global leaders that children everywhere need access to education--and they are taking with them representatives of those who never get a chance to go to school, in the form of cut-outs known as "buddies." Follow the "buddies" on their travels to this week's G8 Summit activities, September's U.N. Summit on the Millennium Goals, and beyond!

30.06.2005 Four Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, in the U.S. for graduate study, describe in half-minute videos their impressions of life in the States and how the experiences they have had will help them bring about positive change in their communities back home.

30.06.2005 European SchoolNet's two year P2P project ((Peer Reviews and Observatory on Policy and Practice in ICT) aims to to monitor and to stimulate change in ICT policies and and practice at European, national, regional and school level and builds on results of the Ernist project.

30.06.2005 Twenty teachers of different ethnic backgrounds will take part in a workshop on children's human rights education in Skopje on 1 July. Later on, they will be able to educate some 600 pupils all over the country

29.06.2005 The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) has teamed up with Italian NGO L'Umana Dimora Onlus to add years of practical EU experience to its Training for Young Environmental Leaders programme. The programme provides advanced training in organisational development, project management and environmental topics in a stimulating international atmosphere.

29.06.2005 In most African societies, children are supposed to be seen not heard. On Friday, June 24, at Eroet Primary School grounds, Soroti district, Eastern Uganda, things were different. Children talked their hearts out as adults in various ranks sat and listened, often uncomfortably.

28.06.2005 A cluster of over 20 government departments and agencies in the education sector have established a landmark framework for sharing data between their organisations and potentially the wider public sector.

27.06.2005 Beyond the tourist havens of Buenos Aires and Patagonia, Argentina's economic fall-out is still visible: nearly 75% of children live in poverty and the political distrust--which cemented the economic collapse--continues as Kirchner’s administration is removed from the people. But in Tucumán, mothers team up to provide children with food and shelter--and alternatives to the gangs and drugs in their community.

27.06.2005 With some 400 floppies and 300 compact discs prepared by students as part of their project, the Institute of Community Medicine in Madras Medical College has enough data to run its web site, www.icm.tn.gov.in.

27.06.2005 Madrassas have all along remained the preserve of men but this one has broken new ground.

27.06.2005 Eleonora Veninova, Ivana Bidikova and Aleksandar Mickov Take Stage at PROMAX&BDA 2005 to Accept Top Prize in UNICEF's Voices of Youth 'Make a Difference' One-Minute Video Contest

26.06.2005 The Global Forum event was not only the first event for GeSCI to
co-host but it also signified the next stage in GeSCI's work in two of our priority countries.

24.06.2005 The Millennium Project has submitted a report to the UN secretary general, that provides the best strategies for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The UN Millennium Project is headed by Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the MDGs. The bulk of its analytical work has been carried out by 10 thematic task forces comprising more than 250 experts from around the world.

24.06.2005 At the press conference held yesterday in Berane, Radivoje Papovic, the Rector of the University in Kosovska Mitrovica, and his Deputy Rade Grbic invited all high school graduates from Montenegro, as well as IDP students from Kosovo, to continue their studies at their institution.

24.06.2005 The leaders of the world's richest countries will be meeting on July 2, 2005 in Gleneagles, Scotland. This is the opportunity that non governmental organisations and other development organisations are looking for to take their agendas over education, poverty and debt to the richest nations and make them do something. Oxfam tells you how to participate.

24.06.2005 Information and communication technologies offer innovative and interesting tools to make teaching and learning more meaningful. Integration of ICTs in educational policies and programmes has gained priority in both developed and developing countries.

24.06.2005 It took some persuasion to get the women attending a rape-trauma counseling meeting to agree to start a literacy program. But when the program debuted in Bunia, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, over 200 women enrolled, and now the women say they stand up for their rights, and by doing so, can protect other women from violence in the future.

23.06.2005 De acordo com a pesquisa, o índice de matérias pautadas por questões que podem provocar reflexão (Índice de Relevância Social - IRS) superou o número das consideradas não-relevantes para a formação cidadã dos adolescentes. Essa tendência vem se consolidando a cada ano. Em 2001 o IRS era de apenas 45,97%. Já em 2002 subiu para 53,85%. Nos dois anos seguintes evoluiu para 54,84% e 57,54%, respectivamente.

23.06.2005 The Centre for Environment Education (CEE), an autonomous NGO of the Indian government is reaching out to schools all over the country with environmental education. One of its programmes - National Environment Education Programmes for Schools (NEEPS) - is run in collaboration with a number of partners all over India.

22.06.2005 For preschoolers in some Las Vegas neighborhoods, the sight of the big white bus with black cow splotches brings cheers. As they scramble aboard, these children enter a classroom that ensures they know the basics--letters, colors, and numbers--before they start school.