The prize is awarded for having made an outstanding impact on promoting equal education opportunities for persons with disabilities.
During their policy conference in May 1992, the ANC made specific commitments to education in South Africa, inter-alia, provision of a minimum of 10years free and compulsory education, provision for those with special learning needs, improving educational quality, ensuring education for young people expelled or having dropped out of school as a consequence of apartheid, provision of adult education, leading to the establishment of a single non-racial, equal and democratic education system.
Women's votes are key in Afghanistan, where the Taliban stripped women of equal rights and education.
Women and girls thus form the largest single category of people deprived of full and equal opportunities for education.
Women saw a huge boost from doors opening for higher-level jobs thanks to Title IX and more equal access to education and Title VII.
Concerning equal access to education, how do women and girls fare?
At least in the developed world where women are no longer confined to their homes, have equal access to education and freedom to pursue whatever career inspires them.
They live in cleaner, warmer homes, have better and more equal access to education, are better fed and clothed than all but the most affluent children a century ago.
Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act.
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The arrival of top-up fees would end the principle of equal access to higher education, says the union.
"The competition for students is horrendous, " says Henry Ponder of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education.
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Equal access to public education has been gained, but what is the value of access to a failing school?
As in Australia, which followed a similar path, the notion of a separate but equal sector of higher education fooled nobody.
Native Americans must be full partners in our nation's economy, thrive in safe communities, and have equal access to quality education and health care.
"Further, the United States Supreme Court held (in a 1982 case) that a state may not deny a child equal access to public education based on his or her immigration status, " he said.
Gender equality will exist when both women and men are able to share equally in the distribution of power and knowledge, have equal opportunities, rights and obligations in terms of work or income generation, are given equal access to quality education, capacity building opportunities throughout life and in all domains, and the possibility to develop to their full potential.
The Equality Challenge Unit was set up in 2001 to support the higher education sector by improving equal opportunities for all who work or seek to work in the UK higher education sector.
An early childhood education of quality gives children an equal start and allows them succeed in later stages of education.
When the victorious Americans arrived, they gave women, at least on paper, equal rights in politics, education and employment, prizes which women in other countries had had to struggle for.
When this happens, sticker prices will begin to fall, students of lesser financial means will begin to have more equal opportunity, and higher education all around, as well as individual institutions, will be the better and stronger for it.
Every child, red, yellow, brown, black and white, deserves a constitutional right to an equal, high-quality public education.
In terms of higher education, women drew equal with men in 1980.
"CIE is committed to working in equal partnership with our colleagues from education ministries around the world, a relationship that forms the backbone of our reputation and work in global education provision and assessment, " he said.
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The Convention against Discrimination in Education stipulates that all persons, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic condition, or birth, have the right to receive an equal standard of and access to education at any level.
Education should ensure quality and equity, in accordance with the principles of equal rights, non-discrimination and the universal right to education, so that all citizens can live together in plural and diverse societies.
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On Tuesday, the ACLU wrote to the school, saying the policy violated a section of the 1972 federal education law, which requires equal opportunities for both sexes.
According to a recent report by the American Association of University Women, even when all factors are equal age, field, education, location and hours worked men earn significantly more than women just one year out of college.
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Education advocates are not only fighting for equal resources for students, but are also up against the Model Minority Myth, which claims that Asian American students achieve above and beyond the general population.
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She said that many college professors across the country don't realize that Title IX of the 1972 federal education law, the same rule that requires equal opportunities for women in college sports, also applies to women who may miss classes or tests because of a pregnancy.
Board of Education decision put America on a path toward equal educational opportunity, America's educational system has undergone a remarkable transformation, and many African American children who attended the substandard segregated schools of the 1950s have grown up to see their children attend integrated elementary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities.
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