More than 800 ideas have already been generated in the EFA Crowdsourcing Challenge, which aims to find ways of using mobile communication to help achieve literacy, develop universal primary education, address youth and adult learning needs, enhance the quality of education, and improve gender parity and equality in education.
While the prospects are positive for Universal Primary Education and Gender equality, the challenges are particularly daunting for the remaining four goals, namely early childhood care and education, youth and adult skills, adult literacy and the issue of quality.
Rowena Arshad, director of the Centre for Education in Racial Equality in Scotland.
In 1960, UNESCO adopted the Convention against Discrimination in Education, which acknowledged the crucial role of education in ensuring equality of opportunity for members of all racial, national or ethnic groups.
Yet, tempting as it is to see such structures as the answer to the Taliban, Pushtunwali is also hostile to the central government and to Western ideals, particularly of education and sex equality.
It serves as a principal movement to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education and to ensure the right to education and gender equality for all children, girls and boys alike.
Mobile Partners in Education by Laura Blackheart (United States) was selected in the Gender Parity and Equality in Education challenge.
However, progress towards the other goals has been much slower, notably early childhood care and education, youth and adult learning, vocational education and training, gender equality and literacy, as well as the quality of education.
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Gender equality in education is a major global concern, but despite commitments to international gender goals, the majority of out-of-school children, and two-thirds of illiterate adults are female.
The Convention called on States to adopt immediate measures in favor of equality in education and, what is more, it linked the concept of Education directly to Human Rights.
Erin Ganju is cofounder and CEO of Room to Read, an organization that seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in the developing world by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education.
Both blacks and whites would do better focusing their energy on defeating the 21st century foes of black equality in education, wealth and housing rather than tilting at windmills, whose blades stop rotating 141 years ago.
She reiterated that US and UNESCO values and interests are shared, in particular as concerns the Organization's core priorities, such as UNESCO's global outreach in education, advancing gender equality, bolstering freedom of expression and media pluralism, and preserving cultural heritage.
When I asked John Wood, founder and board chair of Room to Read, an international nonprofit organization focused on literacy and gender equality in education in Asia and Africa, about Khan, he said he was actually meeting with him this week.
Life is an initiative to facilitate and contribute towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals and the EFA goals specifically goal 3 (ensuring the learning needs of all young people and adults), 4 (a 50 percent improvement in levels of adult literacy), and 5 (achieving gender equality in education).
The event aims to explore mobile learning as a unique and significant contribution to achieving the Education for All (EFA) goals of increasing education access, quality and equality.
Prioritising investment in lifelong learning for women, creating multi-purpose community learning spaces and centres, improving access to and participation in the full range of adult learning and education programmes for women are among the necessary steps to enhance the status of women and facilitate the achievement of gender equality and equity in and through education.
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This is why UNESCO is fully engaged to ensure that gender equality is part of education policies and teachers training.
The debate was attended by some 100 professors and students, and focused on current challenges in gender equality in sciences and education from Japan's perspective and in the wider international context.
In that capacity, she oversees the work of the Employment Litigation and Educational Opportunities Sections of the Civil Rights Division and spearheads interagency policy projects related to combating discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity in education and employment.
The highest political authorities from Brazil (Ministers of Promotion of Racial Equality, Tourism, Education, Culture as well as the Governor of the Federal District), and important personalities from Benin, Ecuador, Nigeria, Senegal who are concerned by this thematic, will be present on that occasion.
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Specific goals target education, fighting disease and promoting gender equality.
We know that the pathway to economic equality is determined by an education, so how could Obama's election mean King's dream has been fulfilled when we have these sad statistics to deal with?
During her visit to Japan, the Director-General participated in a symposium on gender equality in sciences and scientific education in the presence of Mr. Hideki Fukuda, the President of Kobe University - one of the oldest in Japan, as well as Professor and 2008 L'Oreal Prize Winner Ingrid Scheffer, Dr. Yoshie Soma, Special Adviser to the University President, and Professor Roumiana Tsenkova, Director of Gender Equality Office at Kobe University.
"The Welsh Assembly Government is committed to promoting equality of opportunity regarding access to education and training, " it said.
The weakest members of society must be empowered through political and economic freedom, education, improved health and nutrition, gender equality and through government's providing a basic, adequate infrastructure.
We should not forget that an appeal to our courts to remedy legislative neglect is not without precedent: witness the 1954 ruling by the Warren court in the struggle for racial equality in Brown v Board of Education.
To reach this ambitious goal, and to ensure equality of access and opportunity in education for all Americans, the Obama Administration is dedicating new resources, through rigorous and well-rounded academic and support services, to enable African American students to improve their educational achievement and prepare for college and career.
The draft programme and budget being considered by the General Conference gives priority to sustainable development, the development of a culture of peace and non-violence with a special emphasis on gender equality, Africa, youth, Education for All (EFA), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and the most vulnerable segments of society.
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