Launched in January 2012, the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All aims to promote educational responses to counter discrimination and violence through strengthening the foundations of mutual tolerance, and cultivating respect for all people, regardless of colour, gender or national, ethnic or religious identity.

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The academy, funded by the government, Warwick University, business and private donations, aims eventually to offer teaching for 150, 000 children.

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Officials also worry that provincial education authorities, in order to protect local publishing industries, will deny schools any choice in their selection of textbooks (freer choice of teaching materials being one of the aims of the reforms).

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Mariotti, founder of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, a nonprofit organization that aims to educate kids from low-income communities.

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Andrew Robson, arguably Britain's top bridge player, runs an expanding teaching club, now with 1, 500 members, which aims to make bridge fun.

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Its chief executive, Carol Adams, set out the council's aims when it starts work in September, to promote and regulate the teaching profession and advise ministers.

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Teaching Leaders develops school middle managers such as heads of departments, and Future Leaders aims to develop potential leaders - not necessarily from within education - to work in difficult schools.

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The celebrity chef's series, Ministry Of Food, aims to make the town "the culinary capital of the UK" by teaching people how to learn to cook.

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