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Direct linkMeredith, Alyson – Development Education Research Centre, 2022
The aim of this research was to assess how the COVID-19 global pandemic impacted overseas school partnerships in 2020, through to January 2021. It was undertaken with teachers involved in the British Council Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning (CCGL) programme to provide insight into how and why partnerships have been impacted. It also…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Partnerships in Education, Barriers
Download full textBiamba, Cresantus – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2014
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were agreed at United Nations General Assembly Millennium Summit in 2000, address challenges in poverty reduction, hunger, health, gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability, an ambitious set of development targets aimed at reducing poverty and improving the lives of people all…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Objectives, Sustainable Development, Hunger
Eldred, Jan – Adults Learning, 2009
Across the world, representatives of governments, non-governmental organisations, adult learning providers and learners have been preparing for CONFINTEA VI. The world adult education conference has been held every 12 years since the late 1940s and takes place this month in Brazil. Organised by UNESCO, CONFINTEA aims to provide a common vision for…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Educators
Connell, Raewyn – Gender and Education, 2010
A world policy agenda for gender equality in education now exists, realising the idea of earlier reformers such as Kartini. This agenda, however, makes assumptions that are strongly contested by research and policy debates in national forums. This essay urges shifting the framework of gender analysis to global scale. It outlines what is involved…
Descriptors: Policy Formation, Social Justice, Gender Bias, Gender Issues
Peer reviewedBhola, H. S. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, 1998
Asserts that the forces of globalization have overwhelmed the historical political-cultural mission of adult education today by focusing exclusively on productivity. States that world summits have resulted in declarations disabusing the ideas of profits above people, but the resulting policies have not reflected these. Urges adult educators to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
van Leeuwen, Fred, Ed. – Education International, 2002
This quarterly journal offers information about diverse aspects of education in countries throughout the world. Following an editorial discussion of education for citizenship, articles included are: "Free Education for All" (E. Jouen); "The Challenge of Pay Equity: A Stubborn Problem" (M. Tomei); "The IMF's Pupil in Latin…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Citizenship Education, Developing Nations, Equal Education
Abrahamsson, Kenneth, Ed.; And Others – 1988
These papers address the central objective of the conference: to create a better understanding of the societal determinants and educational response to increased demands from adults for greater access to education. The following papers in Part 1 outline some international trends relating to adults in higher education: "The New Policy Arena of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adults, Educational Demand
Muller, Anne, Ed.; Yahil, Edna, Ed. – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2006
"Education Today" is a quarterly newsletter on trends and innovations in education, on worldwide efforts towards Education for All and on UNESCO's own education activities. The focus of this issue of "Education Today," is on Education Sustainable Development (ESD) and what it means. This simple answer is as educators, we are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Population, Illiteracy, Sustainable Development
World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, Morges (Switzerland). – 1984
This report covers the two-year period following the 1982 Assembly of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP), and summarizes proceedings of the 1984 Assembly held in Lome, Togo (August 3-9). The report deals with: (1) action taken to implement resolutions of the 1982 Assembly of Delegates; (2) representations…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economic Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
