Norwegian Directors of Education WELCOME TO UNESCO

EDUCATION, Challenges for Education in the Global Context: UNESCO’s Work remarks to a Delegation of Norwegian Directors of Education to a Delegation of Norwegian Directors of Education 11 March 2004

As a symbol of our commitment to human dignity, the United States will return to UNESCO. This organisation has been reformed and America will participate fully in its mission to advance human rights, tolerance and learning. President Bush United Nations General Assembly

Conference of Allied Ministers of Education (1942)

International Institute for Intellectual Cooperation (1925)

EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL ORGANISATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (1945)

Today the peoples of the world are islands shouting at each other over seas of misunderstanding (…) “Know thyself”, said the old proverb. “Know your neighbour”, we say today. And the whole world is our neighbour. Clement Attlee

Pre 1991: Individual (State) Post 1991: State (Individual)

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “Since wars begin in the minds of men it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed”

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “That ignorance of each other’s ways and lives has been a common cause, throughout the history of mankind, of that suspicion and mutual distrust between the peoples of the world through which their differences have all too often broken into war.

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “That the great and terrible war which has now ended was a war made possible by the denial of the democratic principles of dignity, equality and mutual respect of men, and by the propagation, in their place, through ignorance and prejudice, of the doctrine of inequality of men and races.

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “That the wide diffusion of culture, and the education of humanity for justice and liberty and peace are indispensable to the dignity of man and constitute a sacred duty which all the nations must fulfil in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern.

EDUCATION FOR: LIBERTY JUSTICE PEACE

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “That a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world, and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “For these reasons, the States Parties to this Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and determined to develop and increase the means of communication between their peoples and to employ these means for the purposes of mutual understanding and a truer and more perfect knowledge of each other’s lives.

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “In consequence whereof they do hereby create the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation for the purpose of advancing, through the educational and scientific and cultural relations of the peoples of the world, the objectives of international peace and of the common welfare of mankind for which the United Nations Organisation was established and which its Charter proclaims.

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “For these reasons, the States Parties to this Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and determined…”

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “For these reasons, the States Parties to this Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and determined…”

Constitution (1945) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation “For these reasons, the States Parties to this Constitution, believing in full and equal opportunities for education for all, in the unrestricted pursuit of objective truth, and in the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, are agreed and determined…”

Purposes and Functions Give fresh impulse to popular education and the spread of culture: By collaborating with Members …in the development of educational activities;

Purposes and Functions Give fresh impulse to popular education and the spread of culture: By instituting collaboration among the nations to advance the ideal of equality of educational opportunity without regard to race, sex or any distinctions, economic or social;

Purposes and Functions Give fresh impulse to popular education and the spread of culture: By suggesting educational methods best suited to prepare the children of the world for the responsibilities of freedom.

The General Conference (all Member States) “to determine the policies and main lines of work of UNESCO, taking decisions on programmes submitted to it by the Executive Board.”

The General Conference (all Member States) The Executive Board (58 Member States)

UNESCO a universal organisation

MANAGEMENT The Secretariat (2000+ people at HQ and around the world) Education (~170 at HQ; ~140 in field)

The other programme sectors Science – water resources Culture – cultural diversity Communications/Information access to information and ideas Social and Human Science ethics of science and technology

Education for All

GET EQUAL

G GET EQUAL G = Girls and Gender gender “to eliminate gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005 gender and achieve gender equality by 2015 girls with a special focus on ensuring full and equal access for girls to basic education of good quality.”

E GET EQUAL E = Elementary/Primary “to ensure that by 2015 all children, especially girls, children in difficult circumstances, and from ethnic minorities have access to and complete free and compulsory primary education of good quality.”

T GET EQUAL T = Training “to ensure that the learning needs of all young people are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programmes.”

E GET EQUAL E = Early Childhood early childhood “to expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.”

QU GET EQUAL QU = Quality quality “to improve all aspects of the quality of education to achieve recognised and measurable learning outcomes for all – especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.”

AL GET EQUAL AL = Adult Literacy adult literacy “to achieve a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, as well as equitable access to basic and continuing education for adults.”

The Education Programme I.1 Basic Education for All - Targeting Key Goals

The Education Programme I.1 Basic Education for All - Targeting Key Goals - International Coordination of EFA

EDUCATION, Education for All: Education for All: Is the World on Track? (Answer in 2002: NO)

The Education Programme I.2 Building Learning Societies

The Education Programme I.2 Building Learning Societies - Beyond Universal Primary Education

The Education Programme I.2 Building Learning Societies - Beyond Universal Primary Education - Education and Globalisation

UNESCO’S WORLDWIDE EDUCATION NETWORKS Associated Schools Programme Network (7,000 schools – 170 countries) UNEVOC Network (200 centres – 130 countries) UNESCO Chairs & UNITWIN Network (500 Chairs – 100 countries)

UNESCO’s 5 main functions > Laboratory of ideas > Standard-setter > Capacity-builder > Clearinghouse > Catalyst for international cooperation

EDUCATION, Working upstream

Programme sectors Education – John Daniel Science - Walter Erdelen Culture - Mounir Bouchenaki Communications/Information - Abdul Khan Social and Human Science - Pierre Sané

EDUCATION, Divisions: Basic Education Aïcha Bah Diallo

EDUCATION, Divisions: Secondary, Technical & Vocational Wataru Iwamoto

EDUCATION, Divisions: Higher Education Komlavi Francisco Seddoh

EDUCATION, Divisions: Education Policy and Strategy Asghar Husain

EDUCATION, Divisions: Promotion of Educational Quality Mary Pigozzi

EDUCATION, Divisions: EFA International Coordination Abhimanyu Singh

EDUCATION, Plus: Executive Office Qian Tang

EDUCATION, Institutes and Centres

International Bureau of Education (IBE) Geneva, Switzerland Curriculum policy, contents and methods Cecilia Braslavksy

Institutes and Centres International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) Paris, France Training education officials in policy planning and management; reform and reconstruction of education systems Gudmund Hernes Cecilia Braslavksy

Institutes and Centres UNESCO Institute of Education (UIE) Hamburg, Germany Adult and Continuing Education Adama Ouane

Institutes and Centres International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC) Caracas, Venezuela Reform of higher education in the regions Claudio Rama

Institutes and Centres Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) Moscow, Russian Federation Information and communication technologies in education. Vladimir Kinelev

Institutes and Centres International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Education capacity-building in Africa with a particular focus on teachers. Fay Chung

Institutes and Centres Centre for Higher Education in Europe (CEPES) Bucharest, Romania Cooperation in higher education in Europe. Jan Sadlak

Institutes and Centres International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (UNEVOC) Bonn, Germany improving technical and vocational education and training. Rupert Maclean

Institutes and Centres UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIE) Montreal, Canada Statistics relevant to UNESCO’s work Denise Lievesley

The Field - Institutes and Centres - National Offices - Cluster Offices - Regional Bureaux

The Field Regional Bureaux for Education - Bangkok (Sheldon Shaeffer) - Beirut(Victor Billeh) - Dakar(Armoogum Parsuramen) - Santiago(Ana-Luiza Machado)

Resources

Budget for = $610 million

Resources Budget for = $550 million (Flat for six years of Zero Nominal Growth)

Resources Budget for = $610 million - of which $340 million to Programmes - of which $110 million to EDUCATION (split 50/50 staff/operations)

Resources Budget for = $610 million - of which $110 million to EDUCATION (split 50/50 staff/operations) PLUS: ~ $200 million to EDUCATION (Extrabudgetary/Voluntary)

Priorities for extrabudgetary funds - Primary and Secondary education - Policy Assistance to Countries - Thinking through Quality of Education - Education for Sustainable Development - HIV/AIDS - Globalisation

EDUCATION, Challenges for Education in the Global Context: UNESCO’s Work remarks to a Delegation of Norwegian Directors of Education to a Delegation of Norwegian Directors of Education 11 March 2004