Published by UNESCO Bangkok, UNICEF EAPRO and UNICEF ROSA www.unesco.org/bangkok, www.unicef.org/eapro, www.unicef.org/rosa and www.unicef.org/southasia Executive summary The term ‘early childhood care and education’ (ECCE) refers to a range of processes and mechanisms that sustain, support and aid in the holistic development of children, from birth to age 8 years. Due to the rapid …
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Assumptions: For it to be useful to as many countries as possible, the guide is based on a general conceptual design. However, since the concern is to show that the introduction of African languages and cultures in education is feasible in Africa today, the guide draws inspiration from concrete cases of the African reality and, …
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UNESCO’s “World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education“, just published this year, responds to the need for a “policy that targets specific problems and bottlenecks” on one of the most important issues — gender equality — for human rights and sustainable development today. What’s “gender equality”? The report defines it as “more broadly… the right …
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The 2015 target for Education For All (EFA) looms in the rearview mirror. For the Philippines which is intent on reforming its education system with the implementation of the costly K to 12 basic education program, the 2015 target for EFA may have to be a matter of percentages: like, just what percentage of those …
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Multilingual Education for All in Asia and the Pacific: Policies, Practices and Processes. 4th International Conference on Language and Education. Nov. 6-8, 2013, Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Correspondence related to the conference may be addressed to: Ms. Panyaphat Piam-o-pad, International Conference Secretariat Coordinator (mleconf2013@gmail.com) or Ms. Kyungah Kristy Bang, MLE Secretariat Coordinator (k.bang@unesco.org).
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First Things First: A Commentary on K+12
bilingual education, DepED Order #74 s. 2009, Education For All (EFA), K-12 Basic Education Cycle, Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education
April 5, 2012
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April 5, 2012
By Angel C. de Dios Department of Chemistry Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 a_c_de_dios@yahoo.com (The views expressed here are those of the author and do not represent Georgetown University.) The basic education system of the Philippines faces two major problems: (1) high dropout rates in primary and secondary schools, and (2) lack of mastery of …
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