Support the basic sciences and engineering programme and science policy activities in the cluster countries particularly for post-conflict countries, including practical science education in cooperation with the Education sector, promotion of access and retention of women in science and technology education, and research and development of renewable and alternative energies.
The main objective of this programme is to build capacity in the field of science education and develop of scientific thinking and experimentation among primary and secondary students as well as academics.
Lidia Brito is director of the Division of Science Policy and Sustainable Development of UNESCO and former Minister of Education, Science and Technology of Mozambique.
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Instantly, here is an area of science education that grasps the attention of almost everyone because it applies to them.
Professor Jim Iley, executive director of science and education at the Royal Society of Chemistry told BBC News that gaps in data meant there was still a "degree of uncertainty" about the impact of the chemicals.
We trust his convictions also in the peaceful nature of science education and the need to build bridges of dialogue and cooperation across all divides.
Ministers of Science and Education from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and the Republic of Srpska also took the floor, as did the Deputy Minister from The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the State Secretary of Serbia.
Annette Smith, chief executive of the Association of Science Education, described the biology, chemistry and physics curricula as a "dull list of topics".
These projects focused on capacity building in selected key areas of the physical and biological sciences and on promoting experimentation in science education by using Microscience kits for teaching of different basic science disciplines in schools and higher education institutions.
This comes as something of a nice surprise to supporters of science education.
The reforms will help but it will still be a long haul to reverse the long decline of science education.
The focus was on the transformation of science education at the primary level, with particular emphasis on enhancing innovation and sustainable development.
"We do think it's really important that information that we put forth is scientifically accurate, " said Rosamond Kinzler, senior director of science education at the museum.
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The diversity of perspectives at the event was refreshing: Gail Cardew, Director of Science and Education at The Royal Institution, gave a subsequent speech on finding inspiration from family.
The professor remembers going to a seminar on war-related trauma, at which the Taleban minister of higher education dismissed the science of psychology as useless.
He and his wife, Amy Mickelson, launched the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy in 2005 and have testified before the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee about the importance of math and science education.
They reaffirmed the engagement of UNESCO and the African Union Commission to continue working together in the critical areas of education, science, technology and innovation, and for a culture of peace.
The report does not propose any major changes to current activities of ICSU and its Member Organizations to strengthen science education and the understanding of modern science in developing countries.
The Department for Education says the change is intended to reflect the "importance of computer science to both education and the economy".
Through these efforts, we're going to expand the scope and scale of science and math education all across America.
Ministers and high level officials, experts of science, higher education and research from 11 South East European countries will participate: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey.
The UNESCO Venice Office will use this open resource education platform to enhance the capacity of UNESCO schools in Science Education in selected South-East European countries.
She and her crew followed Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, through the Grand Canyon, one of the great natural wonders of the world.
The main objectives of the Project are to promote practical science experimentation and capacity building for science education, to improve science curricula by inclusion of hands-on experimentation for a better understanding of science and to increase the interest of young people in science so as to promote gender equality, scientific literacy and the choice of a scientific career.
For years, journalism education in the U.S. aspired towards the empirical certainties of social science, and it did so because the expansion of university education demanded that nontraditional subjects genuflect to the power of scientific enquiry.
Two Sunni Cabinet members -- Minister of Education Mohammed Tameem and Minister of Science and Technology Abdul Karim al-Samarrai -- have submitted their resignations in protest over the actions by security forces, their offices said.
The challenge is how to tax and regulate the economy in such way as to ensure unequal economic outcomes provide the public revenue to invest in instruments of social justice, namely equality under the law, world class public education, the science of good health available to all citizens, and best in class public transportation.
Her involvement has been instrumental in supporting my vision for a new paradigm shift in education by assisting me in educator trainings centered on bike safety, integration of literacy and science into physical education (PE), action-based learning, active classrooms, and community support systems.
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