The Indonesia Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) Project
This complete report and policy briefing focuses on the Government of Indonesia’s pursuit of a number of initiatives related to Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED). These include increasing access to early childhood education centers and developing and formalizing Holistic Integrated ECED.
This policy brief provides an overview of the ECED sector and uses findings from an ongoing World Bank-supported ECED Project to make preliminary policy recommendations to guide these initiatives. This brief shows that the ECED Project has had several positive effects, including increased enrollment rates and higher developmental outcomes for children. But it also suggests that these outcomes might have been higher if home environments were more supportive of child development. The analysis supports several policy recommendations ranging from the need to raise community awareness on the importance of early childhood development to the need for communities to raise funds in order to maintain financial viability of project centers.
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World Teachers’ Day 2012: Take a stand for teachers!
“Take a stand for teachers!” is the 2012 motto for World Teachers’ Day. Celebrations are being organized around the world.
World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate the essential role of teachers in providing quality education at all levels.
Fore more information about the day see:
UNESCO:Transforming technical and vocational education and training
This UNESCO study looks in depth at the major trends and policy developments in tVet since the second International Congress held in seoul in 1999. This work has two main objectives.The first is to analyse world trends in technical and vocational education and training(tVet) in the context of wider development trends since the second International Congress. The second is to advance conceptual and policy debates on tVet to address persisting challenges and to proceed towards future frontiers.
The work takes stock of the current situation and asks what policy measures might now be taken, in times of economic uncertainty, to facilitate tVet learning and skills progression by more young people and adults.
This study is available here for download in all the 6 UN Official Languages:
World Atlas to Gender Equality in Education
Although access to education remains a challenge in many countries, girls enrolled in primary school tend to outperform boys. Dropout rates are higher for boys than girls in 63% of countries with data.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released the World Atlas to Gender Equality in Education.
The atlas illustrates the educational pathways of girls and boys and the changes in gender disparities over time. Some key findings shows that:
- Although access to education remains a challenge in many countries, girls enrolled in primary school tend to outperform boys. Dropout rates are higher for boys than girls in 63% of countries with data.
- Countries with high proportions of girls enrolled in secondary education have more women teaching primary education than men.
- Women are the majority of tertiary students in two-thirds of countries with available data. However, men continue to dominate the highest levels of study, accounting for 56% of PhD graduates and 71% of researchers.
