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Loosening the purse strings: financing the education of children with disabilities in India
Nidhi Singal and Anuradha De The #CostingEquity Report launched on 17th October at the UN General Assembly clearly states that at a time when global education funding is in decline, such cuts have a disproportionate impact on children with disabilities. The impact of...
L’éducation, “moteur fondamental” de développement, selon Ban Ki-moon (Xinhuanet.com)
NEW YORK (Nations Unies), 18 septembre (Xinhua) — Le secrétaire général des Nations Unies, Ban Ki-moon, a salué dimanche le lancement du plus grand projet à ce jour de développement d’opportunités d’éducation, voyant en cette dernière...
Malawi: Invest in education, Mutharika urges developing world – allAfrica
President Peter Mutharika on Sunday said unless the developing world prioritized investment in education, it would continue to move in a vicious cycle of poverty. “And the vicious cycle of poverty can only be broken by having inclusive and quality education for...
Norway’s main priorities for the UN general assembly (The Nordic Page)
World leaders are meeting in New York for the 71st session of the UN General Assembly, which will open with a week of high-level meetings beginning on 19 September. – The UN General Assembly is a unique arena. I look forward to promoting international...
Sanaya Bharucha speaks at United Nations youth panel for financing global education (Parsi Khabar)
Sanaya Bharucha, 28 years old, from Pune, India; works as Senior Manager – Training and Support with Teach for India, was selected as part of the United Nations Youth Panel for Financing Global Education. Sanaya attended the launch of the Report by the International...
Measuring the quality of girls’ education across the developing world
One-on-one literacy tests with adult women show that multiple years of schooling have left millions illiterate, and trends aren’t improving very fast Justin Sandefur, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development Slogans like “Learning for all”...
Linking education financing to the marginalised children: Kailash Satyarthi at the UN headquarters
At the launch of the Education Commission report, United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recalled Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s maxim, “Freedom and learning are the birth right of every child. They are non-negotiable.” Mr Satyarthi along with an...
Watch Shakira’s powerful message about the importance of education (Popsugar)
From the article: Shakira teamed up with The Education Commission for its #LearningGeneration movement. The Colombian-born “La Bicicleta” singer, who is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, is showing how passionate she is about the role education plays in a...