Hennessy, like Andreessen, believes that online learning can be as revolutionary to education as digital downloads were to the music business.
These field partners are carefully selected because they adhere to Fair Trade goals such as improving access to education, affordable health care and adequate nutrition, as well as concern for the environmental impact of producing and transporting goods.
Supervision as related to education means providing advice and to offer support to individuals and groups in education.
It should go without saying that this emphasis on female employment as linked to education is limited to those who can afford an education for their children to begin with.
That claim is certainly questionable as applied to education, given the dramatic increase in the use of technology to prepare syllabuses, communicate with students and calculate grades, among many other education-related tasks.
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Despite the coordinated efforts of the Member States of UNESCO, millions of young girls and boys are still deprived of basic rights, such as access to education, basic quality of life and dignified work, preventing them from participating fully in their society.
The rampant poverty that exists has led many young blacks to a life of crime, choosing to sell drugs and involve themselves in gangs as opposed to focusing on education as a way out of the cellar of life.
But, in the longer run, the breakdown of an exchange-rate regime that did so much to foster growth may force the region's exporters to do things they have long talked about, such as improving education so as to increase productivity and foster domestic technologies.
Although many of the free schools that will open in the coming weeks were founded by parents and teachers, individuals will find it harder to obtain funding as cuts to the education budget bite.
We look forward to the day when our colleges and universities will be competing as vigorously to provide the best STEM education programs as they now do to produce the best football teams in our Nation.
He put this down to awareness campaigns, as well as improved access to education that meant more people understood that physical disabilities had a medical explanation.
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development began on January 1, 2005 and aims to promote education as a basis for a more sustainable society and to integrate sustainable development into education at all levels and all areas of life including communities, the workplace and society in general.
We have taken Timor-Leste as the first country to raise education as a number one priority.
Last year at the NAACP, the President talked about education and he put in a lot of civil rights issues as it relates to education.
It is estimated, for instance, that about 14 per cent of children aged 6 to 11 years had no access to primary education as of 2005 to 2009.
Given that racism, xenophobia and intolerance persists despite the renewed commitments made by the international community, UNESCO continues to advocate for education as key to strengthen the foundations of tolerance, reducing discrimination and violence and learning to live together.
The lack of alarm here has implications for lawmakers, particularly for Mr. Obama and Democratic Party officials, who are trying to portray the pending cuts as damaging to defense, education and other programs.
In Burkina Faso, for example, mothers with secondary education are twice as likely to give birth in health facilities as those with no education.
In fact, teacher productivity--essentially more students per teacher--is viewed as anathema to good education.
There is, however, contradictory evidence as to whether financial education is effective at helping people make better financial decisions, Reiss says.
Their discussions focused on politics, the economy and development as well as issues related to education, social justice and the sciences, and in this regard more specifically to the importance of sustainable groundwater resources management in averting the impending water crisis.
With this reshuffle, Mr Hague has brought into his shadow cabinet new people who may be talented and may shine (such as Theresa May to education and employment, Bernard Jenkin to transport), while moving some round pegs to round holes (ex-Captain Iain Duncan-Smith to defence, Dr Liam Fox to health).
Lowering this new natural rate of unemployment will require structural reforms, such as changing education to ensure that people enter work equipped with the sort of skills firms are willing to fight over, adjusting the tax system and modernising the welfare safety net, and more broadly creating a climate conducive to entrepreneurship and innovation.
"As the fastest-growing PC company in education, we are committed to creating education solutions that improve schools' efficiency, as well as leading initiatives to evaluate how technology can measurably improve learning outcomes, " said Michael Schmedlen, Director of Worldwide Education, Lenovo.
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Secondly, big business needs to pull together as one to provide resources and education.
That led me to Russia to study and work as a translator in two human trafficking shelters and then to Kyrgyzstan to work as a community education coordinator and victim advocate in Bishkek, the capital city.
We need for access to higher education to be as easy as possible.
Solutions to these underlying challenges include technology, to be sure, but they also require investments in the building blocks of education that must be properly in place to harbor success--such as policies that enable basic access to education, infrastructure, the capacity and commitment by countries and communities to make education a priority, and well-trained teachers able to make learning compelling and lasting.
The U.S. lackluster job market is as much to do with the 2008 financial crisis as it has to do with our education system, said Silverstein in an interview with me on Thursday.
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