Unesco and adult education

The WHO UNESCO FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce

Pharmacists' roles are evolving from that of compounders and dispensers of medicines to that of experts on medicines within multidisciplinary health care teams. In the developing country context, the pharmacy is often the most accessible or even the sole point of access to health care advice and services. Because of their knowledge of medicines and clinical therapeutics, pharmacists are suitabl...

A Technical and Vocational Education and Training Strategy for UNESCO

This outline review of issues for the UNESCO TVET strategy covers the crucial normative dimension of skills, capacities and qualifications; the role of new upstream policy analytic work on skills development; the concerns with capacity, critical mass and a skills development community of practice; the statistical challenge of skills development data; and the relation of these suggestions to the...

THE MAJOR PROJECT OF EDUCATION Summary Presentation UNESCO and educational development in Latin America and the Caribbean UNESCO Education and hemispheric integration processes

UNESCO Meta-survey on the Use of Technologies in Education

Over the last few years the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in all sectors of education has increased dramatically – and continues to do so. While the writer is not aware of supporting research specific to education, it is probable that the diffusion and adoption of ICTs in that context is following a pattern similar to that which has characterized the adoption of any i...

The Education of Hydrologists (report of an Iahs/unesco Panel on Hydrological Education)

In the late 1987, I began discussion on the education of hydrologists with Dr S. Dumitrescu, Director of the Division of Water Sciences of UNESCO. Our concern is reflected in the following two excerpts from the related correspondence: ".... There has been a growing awareness that hydrology as a geophysical science is making slow progress and has no solid foundations. A major (or perhaps the maj...