Comments on: Sustainable development begins with education https://world-education-blog.org/2013/05/23/sustainable-development-begins-with-education/ Blog by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: Red Point On Green | Η εκπαιδευση καταλυτης της αειφορου αναπτυξης https://world-education-blog.org/2013/05/23/sustainable-development-begins-with-education/#comment-8211 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 22:18:31 +0000 http://gemreportunesco.wpcomstaging.com/?p=3462#comment-8211 […] ευαισθητοποίηση των πολιτών για την κλιματική αλλαγή. Μια έρευνα των χωρών του ΟΟΣΑ διαπίστωσε ότι οι μαθητές με καλύτερες γνώσεις στα […]

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]]> By: Kung https://world-education-blog.org/2013/05/23/sustainable-development-begins-with-education/#comment-3006 Thu, 30 May 2013 15:24:25 +0000 http://gemreportunesco.wpcomstaging.com/?p=3462#comment-3006 Your Blog looks nice and informative which I found on Internet search. Thank you for your post. Allow me to introduce my Blog related to the Southeast Asia community here http://www.communityplan.blogspot.com . Best regards

]]> By: Nicole Comforto https://world-education-blog.org/2013/05/23/sustainable-development-begins-with-education/#comment-2995 Tue, 28 May 2013 10:06:40 +0000 http://gemreportunesco.wpcomstaging.com/?p=3462#comment-2995 Prof. Peter Mittler: Thank you for your comment. You make an excellent point that people with disabilities make up a significant portion of the disadvantaged students who require better access to education, although unfortunately we do not currently have the data needed to make global estimates. As you say, collecting better data on disabilities is necessary for governments to provide better educational opportunities for students with disabilities. Our 2012 EFA Global Monitoring Report reported that less than half of children aged 15-19 with disabilities in Malawi and Swaziland had ever been to school, and that very few young people in Kenya living with disabilities study beyond primary level. This has a significant impact on their chances for employment as well: employment rates for adults with disabilities were very low in all three countries.

You can find more information on our analysis of disability and education in our 2012 report at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0021/002180/218003e.pdf.

]]> By: darna astudillo https://world-education-blog.org/2013/05/23/sustainable-development-begins-with-education/#comment-2979 Sun, 26 May 2013 09:23:11 +0000 http://gemreportunesco.wpcomstaging.com/?p=3462#comment-2979 nice job.

]]> By: Prof. Peter Mittler https://world-education-blog.org/2013/05/23/sustainable-development-begins-with-education/#comment-2977 Sat, 25 May 2013 16:50:30 +0000 http://gemreportunesco.wpcomstaging.com/?p=3462#comment-2977 The challenge of overcoming obstacles to exclusion from education are clearly illustrated by children with disabilities who make up one third of the 61 million out of school children.
Although their rights to education and therefore to participation in society are now part of international law in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (www.un.org/disabilities ) and are also clearly reflected in the growing consensus on the post 2015 MDGs, governments must be held accountable both to their own people and to the international community for developing national action plans for year on year increases in the number of children with disabilities admitted to their schools, as well as matching plans to provide training and support to teachers and other practitioners, including families.
For this to become a reality, governments need to collect reliable data on children with disabilities –for example by including them in national household surveys and in using sensitive screening instruments to detect developmental delays and difficulties. Very few governments collect such data, as is clear from reports to the UN High Commission on Human Rights which monitors the CRPD and all other Conventions (http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CRPD/Pages/Session9.aspx ). UNICEF’s 2013 State of the World’s Children report to be published on May 30th (www.unicef.org/publications ) and the WHO World Report on Disability (WHO 2011) provide essential starting points for the development of a national plan to end the exclusion of disabled children and adults in all countries.
Pressure from the top also has to be matched by local and national grass roots organisations, using the internet to demand that governments take action to end discrimination of disabled people and other disadvantaged groups. Avaaz (www.avaaz.org ) provides examples of what can be achieved by giving a voice to 23 million people world-wide.

]]> By: egardett13 https://world-education-blog.org/2013/05/23/sustainable-development-begins-with-education/#comment-2970 Thu, 23 May 2013 13:32:49 +0000 http://gemreportunesco.wpcomstaging.com/?p=3462#comment-2970 Reblogged this on The Art of Education.

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