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N°288
18 JUNE 2013
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CURRICULUM
CURRICULUM CONTD.
AFRICA
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
RWANDA
Education to Focus On Skills Development
New Times, 14 June
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Tim: More musical instruments on primary school
curriculum
Trinidad & Tobago Express, 17 June
SOUTH AFRICA
Planned Use of African Languages in All Schools
Welcomed
South African Government, 11 June
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
INDIA
Goa govt likely to make garbage mgmt part of school
curriculum
Business Standard, 5 June
THAILAND
Ministry readies new curriculum
Bangkok Post, 13 June
EDUCATION REFORM
AFRICA
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Sénat - Rapport de la commission spéciale sur
l'enseignement national
Le Potentiel, 15 juin
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
AUSTRALIA
Major reform of high school curriculum approved
ABC 10 News NOW, 6 June
Vocational education a 'key' to curriculum reform
The Nation. 17 June
SRI LANKA
Proposals to reform national education system
Ceylon Daily News, 6 June
ARAB STATES
EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
QATAR
Media literacy curriculum for schools soon
Gulf Times, 13 June
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Abu Dhabi schools earn triple-point score with
Scrabble introduction
The National, 17 June
Teaching of Arabic language in UAE schools to be
modernised
gulfnews.com, 15 June
GERMANY
Échec scolaire : comment l'Allemagne a réformé son
système
Le Figaro, 17 juin
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
CHILE
Bachelet propone drásticas reformas educacionales
24horas.cl, 15 de junio
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
AFRICA
CROATIA
Croatia says no to Sex Education
The staronline, 9 June
ANGOLA
Education spéciale en Angola avec des données
satisfaisantes
Angola Press, 11 June
English
UK
Education in brief: Pupils will study new curriculum
but be examined on the old one
The Guardian, 17 June
BURKINA FASO
Education des sourds - Un dictionnaire numérique
pour mieux communiquer
Sidwaya, 4 juin
Advent of Google means we must rethink our
approach to education
The Guardian, 15 June
SENEGAL
Nioro - Renforcement du systeme éducatif des filles
SudQuotidien, 5 juin
EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
INCLUSIVE EDUCATION CONTD.
REPORTS CONTD.
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
UNESCO
Education à la culture de la paix, aux droits humains, à
la citoyenneté, à la démocratie et à l'intégration
régionale: manuel de référence de la CEDEAO, à
l'usage de la formatrice/du formateur de
formateurs/formatrices
UNESCO Office Dakar and Regional Bureau for
Education in Africa; ECOWAS, 2013
CHINA
Poor policy for special-needs pupils means everyone
suffers
South China Morning Post, 11 June
ICT AND EDUCATION
ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
THAILAND
Une tablette par élève, gadget ou progrès?
Nouvelle Observateur, 18 juin
Towards a learning culture of safety and resilience:
technical guidance for integrating disaster risk
reduction in the school curriculum; Pilot version
UNESCO, UNICEF, 2012
TEACHER EDUCATION
UNFPA
Sexuality education: a ten-country review of school
curricula in East and Southern Africa
UNFPA, 2012
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
COLOMBIA
30 millones de dólares invertirá el Gobierno nacional
para centros de innovación
radionacionaldecolombia, 17 de junio
REPORTS
EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
EUROPE
She Figures 2012. Gender in Research and Innovation
Statistics and Indicators
European Union, 2013
Organisation of school time in Europe Primary and
secondary general education: 2013/14 school year
European Commission, 2013
FRANCE
R.O.L.L. »
Inspection générale de l'Éducation nationale (France),
2012
IRELAND
Education of Children in Care in Ireland: An
Exploratory Study
M. Darmody et al. IE Economic and Social Research
Institute, May 2013
UK
Science in key stages 2 and 3 - June 2013
ESTYN, June 2013
USA
NMC Horizon Report > 2013 K-12 Education Edition
New Media Consortium, 2013
INTERNATIONAL
UNITED NATIONS
A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and
Transform Economies through Sustainable
Development: The Report of the High-Level Panel of
Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development
Agenda
United Nations, 2013
PUBLICATIONS, TOOLS
UNESCO
Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education Series Introduction (Advocacy Guide. 1)
Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education - Policy
(Advocacy Guide, 2)
Promoting inclusive teacher education - CURRICULUM
(Advocacy guide 3)
Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education - Materials
(Advocacy Guide, 4)
Promoting Inclusive Teacher Education - Methodology
(Advocacy Guide, 5)
UNESCO Office Bangkok and Regional Bureau for
Education in Asia and the Pacific, 2013
Education microplanning toolkit: introductory module
UNESCO Office Bangkok, 2013
MISCELLANEOUS
Declaration of Berlin
Conférence internationale des ministres et hauts
fonctionnaires responsables de l'éducation physique
et du sport, May 2013
Arabic Chinese French Russian Spanish
Vision Papers on Open Education 2030 Part 2: School
Education
JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies,
May 2013
Le G8 doit renouveler son engagement envers
l'éducation de base dans le monde entier
Huffington Post, 17 juin
INDIA
Does the present education curriculum in Nagaland
encourage creativity and innovation?
Morung express, 17 June (Survey)
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