RESOUR> UNESCO EDUCATION WEB DIGEST (28 February 2003)

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Summary of news articles featured on UNESCO's education website
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>> Distance Learning
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Open and Distance Learning: Trends, Policy and Strategy Considerations

The present paper aims to review open and distance learning in the context 
of present challenges and opportunities, describe relevant concepts and 
contributions, outline some significant current global and regional 
trends, suggest policy and strategy considerations and identify UNESCO's 
initiatives in this area, including its role in capacity building and 
international co-operation.

The globalization of distance education provides many opportunities for 
developing countries for the realization of their education system-wide 
goals. Two main factors have led to an explosion of interest in distance 
learning: the growing need for continual skills upgrading and retraining; 
and the technological advances that have made it possible to teach more 
and more subjects at a distance.

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001284/128463e.pdf

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>> Emergency Assistance
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Guidelines for education in situations of emergency and crisis: EFA 
strategic planning

Education in situations of emergency and crisis is one of the Education 
for All 'flagship programmes'. In order to support this component, this 
guideline outlines major key points to be considered in developing an 
emergency response in education. It provides orientations and 
recommendations and strategic planning for achieving EFA in situation of 
emergency, crisis and reconstruction. The target groups are education 
planners, government officials, NGOs, civil society and other partners 
involved in the EFA process at national and international levels.

It is currently available in English (PDF)

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001282/128214e.pdf

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>> Higher Education
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Globalization and the Market in Higher Education

How are governments and universities responding to the challenge of a 
global market and the growing privatization in higher education?

As higher education opens up to world markets and the World Trade 
Organization turns its attention towards universities, quality, 
accreditation and qualifications are becoming issues of major concern to 
university leaders, governments, students and parents. What are the 
possibilities of dealing with these issues in a concerted way? What are 
national and regional authorities doing to tackle what promises to be most 
important issues since the development of mass higher education?

Drawing on contributions from scholars, leaders and practitioners, this 
book entitled Globalization and the Market in Higher Education, Quality, 
Accreditation and Qualifications examines if it is possible to create an 
international framework in quality assurance and accreditation.
The 224-page book is edited by Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic of the UNESCO 
Higher Education Division and is published by UNESCO Publishing/Economica, 
with the co-operation of the International Association of Universities

http://upo.unesco.org/

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>> HIV/AIDS
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International Clearinghouse on HIV/AIDS Education
 
The International Bureau of Education (IBE) is establishing an 
international clearinghouse on curriculum processes and practice in 
education for the prevention and mitigation of HIV/AIDS.
The fundamental service of the clearinghouse is a web site featuring a 
range of curriculum-related materials, documentation and information on 
HIV/AIDS education at primary and secondary levels of schooling.
As far as possible, efforts are being made to disseminate pertinent 
materials online or make links to existing digital publications. At the 
same time, printed bibliographic data from the clearinghouse databanks 
will be sent to selected institutions which do not have easy access to the 
Internet.

http://www.unesco.org/education/ibe/ichae/

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>> ICT?s in Education
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Training of decision-makers in Asia and the Pacific on ICT policies in 
education

A series of workshop is currently taking place in Bangkok to assist 
decision-makers from Asia and the Pacific in the development or 
improvement of educational ICT policies. The workshops that took off on 
February 18 are organized jointly by the UNESCO Institute for Information 
Technologies in Education (IITE) and the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional 
Bureau for Education (UNESCO Bangkok). They will continue until April 25.

http://www.policy-seminar-bkk.iite.ru/

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>> Languages
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Promoting immigrant minority languages

As regional minority languages gain increasing recognition and better 
treatment in Europe, what is the condition of the languages spoken by 
immigrant communities in the continent? Is their use encouraged, or are 
these languages seen as obstacles to the integration of these newcomers? 
Can they, should they, be taught in school to the children of these 
immigrant families?
http://portal.unesco.org/ev.php?URL_ID=9602&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201

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Celebration of International Mother Language Day

The world celebrated International Mother Language Day on February 21. The 
aim is to encourage all forms of promotion, development and teaching of 
the mother language. ""Languages constitute an irreducible expression of 
human creativity in all its diversity," says the Director-General of 
UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura in a message on the occasion of the Day .

http://www.unesco.org/education/imld_2003/

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>> Literacy
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Today, literacy remains a major global challenge.

While societies enter into the information and knowledge society, and 
modern technologies develop and spread at rapid speed, 860 million adults 
are illiterate, over 100 million children have no access to school, and 
countless children, youth and adults who attend school or other education 
programmes fall short of the required level to be considered literate in 
today´s complex world.

http://www.unesco.org/education/litdecade

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>> Secondary Education
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Educating teenagers

The growth in secondary education in recent years is unprecedented. The 
result is overcrowded classrooms filled with teenagers from diverse social 
and cultural backgrounds. The January issue of UNESCO's education 
newsletter, Education Today, looks at the reforms needed in secondary 
education to solve the problems of overburdened teachers and bored 
students.

This issue also reports on Brazil's successful education grant scheme for 
poor parents, a new project in Kenya's slums that is breaking the vicious 
circle for young women through lifeskills education and small loans and 
much more.

http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=13097&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_
SECTION=201

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Education Today, January - March 2003 - the quarterly newsletter of 
UNESCO's Education Sector

http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=13097&URL_DO=DO_LANGUAGE_T
OGGLE&URL_SECTION=201&URL_OPTIONAL=10000&reload=1046451434&EXIT_URL_ID=1309
7&EXIT_URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&EXIT_URL_SECTION=201

http://www.unesco.org/education/education_today/today04.pdf


FRANCAIS : 
http://portal.unesco.org/education/ev.php?URL_ID=13097&URL_DO=DO_LANGUAGE_T
OGGLE&URL_SECTION=201&URL_OPTIONAL=10035&reload=1046451330&EXIT_URL_ID=1309
7&EXIT_URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&EXIT_URL_SECTION=201

http://www.unesco.org/education/education_today/aujourd_huit_4.pdf

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More on UNESCO Education Website
http://www.unesco.org/education/

FRANCAIS : http://www.unesco.org/education/index_fr.shtml
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