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Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific, 1986
This bibliography of approximately 1,850 published and unpublished materials concerning all aspects of education in Asian and Pacific countries updates a 1979 bibliography by the same organization. Types of materials listed include conference papers, research reports, books, statistical compilations, government/international organization…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Educational Development
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 2002
More than half of the world's population, and more than 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas where hunger, illiteracy, and low school achievement are common. Education in rural areas is crucial for achieving sustainable development. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and UNESCO's International Institute…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Agriculture, Community Involvement
Cahill, Bruce, Ed. – Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific, 1986
Articles focusing on UNESCO's role in educational development in Asian and Pacific countries are gathered in this issue commemorating UNESCO's 40th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of the Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. Following an overview of educational needs and achievements, current activities of four UNESCO offices…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developing Nations, Educational Change, Educational Development
Download full textUnited Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1981
Adult education and the economic development of the countries of Asia and the Pacific was discussed at a UNESCO conference held in Bangkok in November-December, 1980. The conference was opened by Raja Roy Singh, who emphasized the crucial significance of adult education in national development. He said that development is no longer construed only…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Abel, James F. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
The purpose of the Biennial Survey of Education in the United States is to present to the people of this Nation a picture, as complete and accurate as possible, of the many types of education they finance, administer, and maintain. But this isolated picture is not enough. The worth, activity, and progress of any system of schools are relative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Surveys, International Education
