Finally, the strategy presents guidelines on institutions and procedures related to teaching policies, stressing the need to prioritise this topic in view of the fundamental importance of teaching activity in education quality.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

During the preparation and implementation of the programme, a number of challenges have been faced mainly due to the fundamental changes made to the teaching-learning approaches and the focus on community participation.

UNESCO: Aprendizajes en Familia (Family Literacy Programme)

During the first stage of the project, this secretariat has taken on two fundamental tasks: documenting the State of the Art in teaching policy in the region, and drawing up criteria or guidelines for policy making in the field.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

Just as the bilingual school-teaching which California did away with in 1997 obscured more fundamental problems over achieving literacy in any language, affirmative action channelled good motives down a false path.

ECONOMIST: Affirmative action in California

The most fundamental one remains the Baumol effect: labour-intensive services, such as nursing and teaching, have thus far proved as immune to productivity-enhancing technology as string quartets.

ECONOMIST: The gods that have failed��so far