The purpose of education has always been to build up competencies a country needs to grow.
The Report is intended to stimulate public policy debate about the purpose of education and the organisation of learning.
In our previous blog we asked What is the Purpose of Education?
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This is the purpose of education for sustainable development (ESD).
The big purpose of education is to prepare good citizens by providing them with a foundational competency in our cultural way of structuring reality, a process that has immediate impact on the social systems in which they will inevitably participate.
When we look beyond the issue of accessibility to the quality of education our children receive -- after all it should be fit for purpose -- the region has among the lowest education requirements for teachers, with 50% of countries requiring lower secondary school teachers to have completed no higher than a secondary education (so teachers have barely more education that their students).
Looking at the two top countries - Finland and South Korea - the report says that there are many big differences, but the common factor is a shared social belief in the importance of education and its "underlying moral purpose".
In a thoughtful study, Stephen Asma examines how natural-history museums fulfil the sometimes conflicting functions of education and entertainment, and how far their scientific purpose has been distorted by crowd-pleasing gimmicks.
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The purpose of the UNESCO Chair is to promote an integrated system of research, education, training, capacity building, information and documentation in the field of African peace and conflict studies.
So the purpose of teaching philosophy was - and remains, in theory - to complete the education of young men and women and permit them to think.
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But by then the tapestries had acquired a different purpose: instead of praising the virtues of a regent queen, they were to portray the education of an ideal prince, little Louis.
LEAs as part of multi-purpose local councils which provide social services, housing and other facilities, as well as education.
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.
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 this framework the purpose of the Amigos de la Patagonia Association is to promote water protection and awareness through formal and non-formal education programmes in Argentina.
The main purpose of UNESCO, according to its Constitution is to contribute to peace and security by promoting the collaboration of nations through education, science and culture.
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