Education Now: Targeting the G8 at genoa

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Jul 09, 2001

The last time the G8 met, the world's richest countries promised to support poorer countries serious about providing free basic education. Since then, despite vigorous campaigning, their plan to get all children into school by 2015 has stalled. At the upcoming meet of G8 leaders in Genoa, Oxfam together with other NGOs will seek a Global Initiative on education that checks progress - or lack of it - against the 2015 targets, and to provide the $8bn a year - from the North and South - to mak...read more

Teaching in the 21st century must give the young lifeskills

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Jul 09, 2001

A good education system is increasingly important not only for the success of a modern knowledge-based economy but also for the creation of a socially just society. The explosion of knowledge about the nature of learning, combined with the growing power of technology, create the potential to transform the most fundamental unit of education: the interaction of teacher and learner.

Reparations must be on racism conference agenda:

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Jul 09, 2001

The issue of reparations has to be on the agenda of the Third United Nations World Conference on Racism in Durban later this year, Jubilee South Africa and other anti-debt movements insisted at the weekend.

Black entrepreneurs allegedly sidelined from Racism conference

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Jul 09, 2001

Time constraints have forced the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Durban, venue of next month's World Conference on Racism, to ignore tender procedures for key contracts leading to the exclusion of emerging black entrepreneurs. However, black entrepreneurs have called the procedure racist, saying that the organisers have sidelined them in favour of established, mainly white-owned companies. They have now called for government intervention to ensure that they are given a fair share.

medical editor scholarship

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Jul 09, 2001

Applications are invited for the BMJ Publishing Group Scholarship, which will fund one editor from a developing country to come to the UK to attend the annual course on September 27-29 for editors of peer reviewed medical journals. The course is run by Tim Albert, a leading UK trainer in medical writing skills and health related journalism. His business, Tim Albert Training, has just completed its tenth year. Telephone: + 44 (0)20 7383 6069

Open Source Learning

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Jul 09, 2001

This Paper focuses on three of the major issues facing our society today, ones which are likely to be key battlegrounds in the struggle to shape the coming era: multiculturalism and diversity, citizenship and participation, and the Knowledge / Information Society. It reveals fundamental connections between the demands we are grappling with in those fields. It then goes on to suggest an approach to learning, named here for the first time as Open Source Learning, which aims to equip people to e...read more

Training Seminar for Human Rights Defenders in Cairo

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Jul 09, 2001

Amnesty International Holds a Training Seminar
for Human Rights Defenders in Cairo from 7-9 July 2001

Egypt

What is Racism?

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Jul 09, 2001

To promote greater understanding about what we mean when we are talking about racism. There is clearly a need to engage constructively with racism in South Africa. Developing a common vision of the nature of the problem may assist in focusing our efforts towards achieving this objective.
Date: Wednesday, 25th July 2001 9.00 for 9.30 - 11h30
Venue: The Attic at the Sunnyside Park Hotel, Princess of Wales Terrace, Parktown.
As spaces are limited, please RSVP before 20/07. For ...read more

SIERRA LEONE: Catholic church appeals for fund

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Jul 02, 2001

Sierra Leone's Catholic Church has launched an international appeal for funds to rebuild the education sector, the Missionary News Agency (MISNA) reported on Tuesday. Aid is needed most in the northern and eastern provinces, where fighting destroyed many private and public school buildings, MISNA quoted the Bishop of the northern town of Makeni, Giorgio Biguzzi, as saying.

Sierra Leone

REGIONAL TECHNICAL ADVISOR/EDUCATION WEST AFRICA REGIONAL OFFICE, GHANA

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Jul 02, 2001

Catholic Relief Services seeks a Regional Technical Advisor to provide technical assistance in the area of primary education and literacy to country programs; to maintain and/or improve the program quality of such programs; and to focus on the new area of academic and educational quality. Requires: Masters in education; minimum of 3-5 years overseas education experience; experience in primary education and food-assisted education preferred; familiarity with USAID systems and regulations; will...read more

Ghana

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