UNESCO and UNICEF Unite with Partners to Define Education’s Role Beyond 2015
As we approach 2015, there is an urgent need to review progress towards the Education for All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and discuss new options on how they can be achieved. United Nations Development Group (UNDG) is leading efforts...
US Energy Department Announces New University-Led Projects to Create More Efficient, Lower Cost Concentrating Solar Power Systems
As part of the Energy Department's SunShot Initiative, which aims to drive solar energy to be cost-competitive with other energy sources by 2020, Secretary Steven Chu announced today new investments totaling $10 million over five years for two...
Overloaded Backpacks Can Injure Kids: Experts
New survey examines how schools worldwide teach the Holocaust
The study will begin with an assessment of curricula from 195 countries, showing where and to what extent the Holocaust is established in the official school syllabus. The result will take the form of a global mapping, illustrating where the...
Programmes in Bhutan, Colombia, Indonesia and Rwanda awarded UNESCO International Literacy Prizes
The Directorate of Community Education Development in Indonesia will receive one of the two UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prizes.This government programme on ‘Improving quality of literacy education through entrepreneurship literacy, reading culture and...
UN honours literacy programmes in Bhutan, Colombia, Indonesia and Rwanda
Mothers sit in a class in a Non-formal and Continuing Education programme run by Bhutan’s Department of Adult and...
Teens With ADHD May Need Help Making Transition to College
UNESCO publishes guidelines for disaster risk reduction through education
In response to this need, and convinced that the best place to start is in the classroom well before disaster strikes, UNESCO and UNICEF have published a comprehensive study called Disaster Risk Reduction in School Curricula.
