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UNESCO and the world’s largest technical professional association, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), today signed an agreement to implement projects to support the engineering community in Africa.

In a novel way to impart new skills to children while improving their social interaction, the United Nations refugee agency has sponsored an arts workshop for refugee pupils from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in Tanzania, where they were introduced to the basics of painting with water colours, pastels and acrylics and making collages.
 

The Three2Six Project provides free schooling to refugee children unable to access public schools

"Juliana" (real name unknown) at the Sainte Philomene Orphanage in Man. She was among a group of people who fled mass killings in Blolequin early in 2011

Children in line to receive a hot meal at the Catholic mission in Duékoué, western Côte d’Ivoire.

This forum was intent on having teachers engage in a real discussion about school, programmes, the curriculum, textbooks, teaching conditions and students’ difficult situations,. The aim was to come up with proposals that could lead to real solutions to the quality of public schools in rural areas.

As young adults, some college students find opportunity to explore attitudes, ideas and beliefs some find new ways to express their faith.

A USA Today probe concerning schools found that more than 100 public schools in District of Columbia had high test erasure rates, which could indicate possible cheating practices. This has caused the explosion in school test cheating scandals and led the Obama Administration to create a manual that supposedly will help schools fight teacher-led cheating on standardized tests.

The “Teaching Respect for All,” project born of cooperation between UNESCO, the United States and Brazil, will be launched on 18 January at UNESCO Headquarters (2 p.m., Room XI). This is the first step in a process expected to last close to three years with the aim of developing curricula that promote learning to live together in school.

Using a precision formation-flying technique, the twin GRAIL spacecraft will map the moon's gravity field, as depicted in this artist's rendering