Finally, in order to attract the most talented young adults and career-changers into teaching, human resource systems must be overhauled.

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Developed by UNEP with the education expertise of UNESCO, this kit gives primary school teachers a simple yet comprehensive teaching tool to facilitate the inclusion of human and environmental issues linked to ozone reduction within the teaching curricula.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Education materials from UNESCO and partner organisations

He said that Deming was more focused on the statistical analysis of quality whereas he, Juran, was more concerned about the human input, teaching people how to introduce what he called CWQM (company-wide quality management).

ECONOMIST: Guru

Governments, the United Nations system as well as other multilateral organizations are urged to increase considerably the resources allocated to programmes aiming at the establishment and strengthening of national legislation, national institutions and related infrastructures which uphold the rule of law and democracy, electoral assistance, human rights awareness through training, teaching and education, popular participation and civil society.

UNESCO: Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action

Today, the best backgammon programs are arguably as good as the top human players and all are self-teaching systems based on neural networks.

ECONOMIST: Stop the war

Commissioned as part of the UNESCO-USA-Brazil project Teaching Respect for All and carried out in cooperation with the Centre of Human Rights Education, Lucerne, Switzerland, the study also makes recommendations in terms of content, methodology, usability and process for the future development of education materials against racism, discrimination and intolerance.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

For developers, the challenge is teaching computers to think like people, improving the artificial-intelligence aspect of software so that it replicates the human elements of job search and recruitment, says Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass International Inc.

WSJ: Seeking Software Fix for Job-Search Game