The unprecedented uptake of mobile phones in particular, in both developed and developing countries opens up new possibilities for increasing education access, equity and quality.
For the past several decades, I have worked tirelessly to build diverse coalitions and to unite diverse leaders in Baltimore, New York, Hartford, and Pittsburgh to advocate for education reform and equity.
"The key that we're going to have to pursue is a -- is a pathway to get the Muslim world to be able to reject extremism on its own, " Romney said, proposing U.S. policies to promote economic development, better education, gender equity and to help create institutions.
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The challenges concerning access, quality and equity in education are not new, but remain unresolved issues for most countries.
UNESCO: Quality in educational policy: Research and foresight
Several initiatives were launched in the region to improve quality and equity in education and counter poverty and inequality.
Ms Bokova stressed the importance of equity in education systems as well as the quality of education, including teachers.
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.
UNESCO: Quality in educational policy: Research and foresight
Citizen Action of New York, the Alliance for Quality Education and Campaign for Fiscal Equity were among backers of the legal challenge.
It was also proposed to devote appropriate attention to the principle of equity, basic education and training, and gender issues, involving young people and women in the process of building green economies and societies.
It sits atop several big political and social fault lines of our day: trade, technology, growth, education, planning versus chaos and equity versus salary.
But don't tell that to Randi Weingarten, the teachers union el supremo, who is trying to strong-arm pension trustees not to invest in hedge funds or private-equity funds that support education reform.
Promote and use OER to widen access to education at all levels, both formal and non-formal, in a perspective of lifelong learning, thus contributing to social inclusion, gender equity and special needs education.
Prioritising investment in lifelong learning for women, creating multi-purpose community learning spaces and centres, improving access to and participation in the full range of adult learning and education programmes for women are among the necessary steps to enhance the status of women and facilitate the achievement of gender equality and equity in and through education.
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In her intervention, Irina Bokova explored the main lessons learned since 2000 in taking forward the MDG and Education for All, and highlighted the need for quality, equity and values to lie at the heart of the post-2015 global education agenda.
McGraw-Hill is not the first publishing company to have its education division purchased by a private-equity firm.
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Following is a discussion of some of the equity concerns related to basic education in the United States.
Matt Cavallaro is an equity analyst for stock market education company BetterTrades.com.
Liberty's Web courses face strong competition from the Christian online school Grand Canyon University (10, 000 students), acquired a couple of years ago by Significant Education, a Phoenix, Arizona private equity group.
They will review trends from rapid growth in student numbers to the surge in private provision, address emerging new dynamics and their policy implications, examine the social responsibility of higher education, and recommend measures to promote equity and stimulate innovation and research.
The stories from this DVD deal with the issues that fall under United Nations Millennium Development Goals like drinking water, education, literacy, environment sustainability, social equity, human rights etc.
Liberty's Web courses face strong competition from the Christian online school Grand Canyon University (10, 000 students), acquired a couple of years ago by Significant Education, a Phoenix, Ariz. private equity group.
And finally, the Washington Post reported that some prospective college students are choosing lower-cost options as their parents find it harder to get home equity loans or private loans to pay for their education.
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Note: there is no connection between the for-profit education concern, the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix, and Apollo Global Management, the private-equity business that is purchasing the McGraw-Hill education division.
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This year, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) is marking the occasion with a variety of activities whose main purpose is to promote tolerance, equity and social justice through access to quality basic education and lifelong learning.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing on pay equity, while the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the proposed merger between NBC and Comcast.
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Gains in education and labor force involvement have not yet translated into wage and income equity.
In my philanthropic work, I look at education and see it as a powerful way to promote economic and social equity.
Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care, and economic opportunity.
Worthy as land reform is, if equity is the goal, the money might be better spent on, say, secondary education or the government's new youth-unemployment scheme.
The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training acts as part of the United Nations' mandate to promote peace, justice, equity, poverty alleviation and greater social cohesion.
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