Looking ahead: Education events in 2010
Millions of children still missing out on education, the power of early learning, literacy and gender equity are some of the main themes to be highlighted by UNESCO’s Education Sector in 2010.
The GMR will use an innovative new tool to identify the ‘education poor’ and argue that the failure to reach marginalized children is holding back overall progress on education.
Protecting schools, teachers and pupils from attack and damage during times of conflict and disaster is the subject of two new reports. Education under Attack 2010 and Protecting Education from Attack: A State of the Art Review will be launched in New York on February 10 and in Paris on March 10.
Gender will be to the fore as the subject of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Global Education Digest to launch in July and an online discussion on Gender, Education and Training open from 10 January to 7 February 2010. The discussion is part of the 15-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (formed after the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing 1995) and will explore and analyze emerging developments, challenges and policy issues.
UNESCO is preparing for a major conference on the importance of Early Childhood Care and Education which will take place in Moscow on September 22 to 24. Full details will be available through this website.
In addition UNESCO will award two prizes; the King-Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education in Paris in January and the first ever Hamdan Bin Rashil Al Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers in Dubai in March.
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May
10-14- Conference on Girls’ Education to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the United Nations’ Girls’ Education Initiative, organized by UNICEF and UNESCO, Dakar, Senegal.
19-21- International Meeting of the International Network for Reorienting Teacher Education towards Sustainability
25-28- Second World Conference on Arts Education. Seoul, Republic of Korea
July
18- Shanghai International Forum on Lifelong Learning within the 2010 Expo, Shanghai as part of UNESCO Week 18-23
September
20-22- UN Secretary General’s High-level Plenary Meeting on the Millennium Development Goals + 10, New York
October
5- UN General Assembly: UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) mid-term report, UN New York
21-23- UNESCO-APEID International Conference: Education for Human Resource Development, Thailand
.. excited to select, prepare for, and participate in one of those:-) It feels good to have something to look forward to + put all my energy/efforts into a short-term goal for once!
