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Education
Mission Statement
UNESCO-Beirut Office, the Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States, aims at promoting education in the Arab world as a fundamental right while working to ensure adequate access is provided. It focuses on improving the quality of education in various aspects such as curriculum design and school administration.
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UNESCO also stimulates experimentation, innovation and policy dialogue in the education sector to ensure continuous change and update to the educational system in the Arab states. The strong links with ministries of education and government agencies facilitate for UNESCO the implementation of projects to achieve its goals. UNESCO-Beirut’s efforts in education are an important part of UNESCO’s general strategies aiming to improve education worldwide.
Strategies
To realize its mission and achieve its objectives the following strategies are set forth by the Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States:
1) Focusing on a good learning environment, which would contain good quality education that meets the demands of the continuously changing and advancing society today.
2) Promoting and defending education as a fundamental right for all in society. UNESCO works on protecting this right to education by assisting societies especially impoverished ones, in providing education for its members.
3) Assisting member countries in focusing their goals and strategies towards the development of their educational system at multiple levels.
4) Targeting all aspects related to education be it at the curriculum design level, teacher training, administration or any other aspect that can be considered part of education.
5) Forming partnerships with governments, non-government agencies, and other institutions that will help in realizing the projects and facilitating the work.
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 05 Apr 2005 Life Skills for Youth : Training workshop at UNESCO Beirut
Within the framework of the Education for All Programs and Improving the quality of life for youth, 30 young trainees and trainers came together from all parts of Lebanon to be trained at UNESCO Beirut.
The participants after completing the training will go back to their communities and work on their own projects or with other youth in deprived areas. The aim is to give marginalized youth and those in poorer areas a chance to learn and acquire new skills and to learn how to start their own income generating schemes. These skills will lead them to finding better jobs or enhancing their income by starting small projects of their own. Continuer |
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 17 Dec 2004 New books and laboratory equipment en route for Iraq's universities UNESCO PRESS
Four containers of laboratory equipment, along with supplies of up-to-date reference books and students textbooks are on their way to Iraq as part of an international effort to revitalize the country’s universities and its higher education system. The consignment has been organized by UNESCO and the International Fund for Higher Education in Iraq, initiated by the First Lady of Qatar, Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Misnad, who is also a UNESC0 Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education.
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 21 Apr 2004 UNESCO Beirut Office Launches Education for All Week in Lebanon UNESCO Office Beirut
In Lebanon, 950 Out of School children and School Children marched to Parliament and delivered three letters to the Lebanese President, Prime Minister and Head of Parliament to lobby them to do more for out of school children and to give every child the right of good education during the Education For All Week from 19 to 25 April 2004. Continuer |
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