The Group also encouraged the establishment of independent verification mechanisms at the national level, which could be done by education-specific or general statistical bodies.
The Professor also dedicated his life to education by serving as Director of National Education, and Secretary-General of the African and Malgache Council for Higher Education (CAMES).
While ensuring quality education, Director-General Bokova stressed that efforts should be made to keep girls in schools, especially in secondary schools, and to eliminate prejudices towards Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), particularly for girls.
In regard to education, the Director-General underlined the importance of responding to the need to support the education system expressed by the country, especially in terms of post-primary and higher education and the need to strengthen enrollment of girls at these levels.
In a round table with executive and legislative officials and civil society leaders, representing gender, ecology and education committees, the Director-General gained insight into policies on gender, ecology, education and culture.
The system - public education and American culture, in general - has created gaps in opportunity and expectation, and it is my goal to be part of closing those gaps.
During the 1Goal Education for All Summit held in Pretoria (South Africa) in July 2010, the Director-General argued for education to be made a top political priority of governments and global governance.
While at U.N. headquarters, the Director-General, will, on 19 January, launch the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2010, the flagship report of UNESCO in the field of education, in the presence of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
But one early result on December 31st showed that Joseph Kamotho, the party's secretary-general and education minister, had lost his seat.
John Daniel, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General for Education, said in his concluding remarks that he experienced "an enormous change" in the style of the Working Group.
Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General for Education at UNESCO, and H.
Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Education and under the direct supervision of the Director of the Amman Office, the incumbent shall provide policy advice and technical support to the Member State in policy formulation and review, and the development of national education strategies and plans.
Co-ordinate fund-raising efforts to support the implementation of the above-mentioned field of education in the Arab States in general and ensure co-ordination and exchange between concerned parties such as UNESCO HQ, governments, UN agencies, the Islamic States Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Arab League Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and bilateral donors.
Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General, Education Sector, and the direct supervision of the Director of the Division for Planning and Development of Education, the incumbent will lead the design, coordination, execution and evaluation efforts for programme and projects and play a significant role in policy and strategy direction, development and integration, and resource optimization.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Chief of Section (11/5/2011) (# ED 385 - (P5))
Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General, Education Sector, and the direct supervision of the Director of the Division of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development, the incumbent will lead the design, coordination, execution and evaluation efforts for programme and projects and play a significant role in policy and strategy direction, development and integration, and resource optimization.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Chief of Section (11/5/2011) (ED 052 - (P5))
Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General, Education Sector, and the direct supervision of the Director of the Division for Basic to Higher Education and Learning, the incumbent will lead the design, coordination, execution and evaluation efforts for programme and projects and play a significant role in policy and strategy direction, development and integration, and resource optimization.
UNESCO: Vacancy : Chief of Section (11/5/2011) (ED 197 - (P5))
Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Education and under the direct supervision of the Director of the Rabat Cluster Office, the incumbent shall provide policy advice and technical support to Member States in the Rabat Cluster (Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia) in policy formulation and review, and the development of national education strategies and plans within countries of the Field Office.
Under the overall authority of the Assistant Director-General for Education and under the direct supervision of the Director of the Doha Cluster Office, the incumbent shall provide policy advice and technical support to Member States in the Doha Cluster (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen) in policy formulation and review, and the development of national education strategies and plans within countries of the Field Office.
The Director-General also referred to the importance of advancing education in post-conflict and transition countries such as Liberia, Myanmar and South-Sudan.
It has also, often, led to uneven and imbalanced improvements of sub-systems of general education quality.
The Director-General reminded that education investments count for less than 2% of the global humanitarian funding.
Fragmentation of sub-systems of general education quality has often led to inherently inconsistent and sometimes contradictory policies, strategies and programs.
Welcoming Mr Ban, the Director-General praised the lasting cooperation between the Republic of Korea and UNESCO and thanked the Secretary-General for promoting education on the international agenda through his Education First initiative.
The opening ceremony on 19 February will be chaired by a representative of the UNESCO Assistant-Director General for Education in the presence of Ambassadors and permanent Delegates to UNESCO of the participating countries and of the Task Force Steering Committee members.
In March 2010, she visited Haiti, where, together with the Director-General of UNESCO, she chaired a round table about education in Port-au-Prince.
However, there is still the lack of the awareness towards mother-tongue based bilingual education in the general public and in some ethnic communities.
Several convergent data highlight how countries that have developed most rapidly are those who have invested in education and health, recalled the Director-General, citing the experience of South Korea.
On the opening remarks of the Forum, UNESCO Tashkent office delivered key-note messages of Mr. Qian Tang, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO for Education, and Mr. Arne Carlsen Director of the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
She noted also the importance of peace and human rights education, underlining that this stands at the heart of the UN Secretary General, Mr Ban Ki-moon's Education First initiative, to be launched on 26 September, where UNESCO is playing a leading role.
The University of Tennessee, meanwhile, will have faculty at its Martin and Chattanooga campuses work with Coursera to develop entirely online versions of first-year courses in English composition and masterpieces of music, both general education requirements (these courses won't be "open" to non-UT students, so aren't really "MOOCs, " but they will borrow from Coursera's technology platforms).
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