International day of education

The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 24 January as On 24 January 2022, we will be celebrating the fourth International Day of Education under the theme “Changing Course, Transforming Education”. As it was detailed in UNESCO’s recent global The Reimagining our futures together: A new social contract for education report will be discussed worldwide, including at the following events. In celebration of International Education Day, a discussion of UNESCO's Futures of Education Report with several members of the International Commission: Cristovam Buarque, Elisa Guerra, Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Fernando Reimers will be held. 24 January, 12:00-13:00 (Boston) A recording of the event is available Global Minnesota, with partners Learning Planet Institute and UNESCO, invites you to join us for these extraordinary speakers: Jeffrey Sachs, Sri Zaheer, Dina Storey, Phil Noble, Satish Kumar, Shawntera Hardy, Mamphela Ramphele, Gabriela Zalaya, Runa Khan, Robbyn Wacker, Amanda Ellis, Memory Banda, Melati Wijsen, and more local, national, and international leaders. 24 January, 9:00-16:00 (Minnesota) Program and registration link available The International UNESCO Chairs Forum on the Futures of Higher Education is being organized jointly by Italy and UNESCO at Expo 2020 Dubai to mark the International Day of Education 2022. The forum aims to leverage collective interdisciplinary intelligence relative to the futures of higher education systems, with a focus on skills development ...

By India Today Web Desk: International Day of Education is an annual international observance day held on January 24. There is no doubt that education is one of the most powerful things in life. Our lives are vastly improved when we are able to find meaning behind everything. Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights enshrines the right to education. The declaration calls for free and compulsory elementary education. UNESCO reports that 244 million children and young people are out of school today, and 771 million adults are illiterate. It is unacceptable to violate their right to education. It's time to transform education. Education offers children a ladder out of poverty and a path to a promising future. INTERNATIONAL DAY OF EDUCATION 2023: THEME This year's International Day of Education will be celebrated under the theme "Invest in people and prioritize education." This year’s International Day of Education is dedicated to Afghan women and girls who have been denied their right to learn, study and teach. Last year, countries committed to rebooting their education systems & accelerating action to end the learning crisis. On âžá️ INTERNATIONAL DAY OF EDUCATION HISTORY: On December 3, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming January 24 as the International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education in bringing global peace and sustainable development. INSPIRING EDUCATION QUOTES: • Education is an admirable ...

Annual observance day dedicated to education International Day of Education Official name International Day of Education Observedby [[India ]] Begins 2019 Date Nexttime 24 January 2024 ( 2024-01-24) International Day of Education is an annual International Day of Education, in celebration of the role of education for bringing History [ ] See also [ ]

Building on the global momentum generated by the Transforming Education Summit, the International Day of Education 2023 will be a global platform to sustain political mobilization to advance SDG4. It will take forward national commitments and global initiatives, and step up public engagement in favour of education as the path to peace, sustainable development, and individual and collective well-being, while providing youth with a platform to present their initiatives and innovations to advance the right to education. The event will also highlight one of the most challenging crises of our times, in Afghanistan where girls and women are deprived of their fundamental right to education. Since the political shift in Kabul in August 2021, access to education beyond primary level is indefinitely suspended for all Afghan girls above the age of 12. This means that 80% (2.5 million) of school-aged Afghan girls and young women are out of school, while nearly 30% of girls in Afghanistan have never entered primary education. It will also include the launch of the first SDG4 benchmark publication by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report and Institute for Statistics, which monitors country progress towards the benchmarks, including those discussed at the Transforming Education Summit. 10.00-10.10 am -High-level opening Moderator: Kenisha Arora, SDG4 High-Level Steering Committee Youth Representative • António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations (VM) • Audrey Azoulay,...

Classroom in Malawi. The union project against child labour in the country brought over 1,000 children back to school and prevented 1,200 from dropping out. Education International Statement on World Day against Child Labour Equity and inclusion From Work to School: Putting an End to Child Labour published 10 June 2023 updated 13 June 2023 On World Day against Child Labour, Education International (EI) and its member organisations reiterate their commitment to advocate for the millions of children around the globe who are being exploited through child labour of any form. EI is committed to raising awareness, advocating, and working to eradicate child labour and believes that quality public education and teachers are crucial to eradicate child labour. Childhood is a period of learning, exploring, and dreaming. Nonetheless, millions worldwide are confined in the cycle of child labour, deprived of their rights to quality education and stripped of their innocence. Many of these children work in dangerous conditions, exposed to physical, emotional, and mental abuse. They are denied access to quality education and robbed of their bright and promising future. This grave injustice requires our immediate and collective action. Education is a basic human right and a powerful tool for empowerment. To effectively tackle child labour, governments should protect the right to education by providing free quality public education for all students. By funding quality public education, gover...

Events such as the International Day of Education need to focus on one big idea to be memorable. The rallying cry of t his year’s International Day of Education is the need to forge a new social contract for education: “In these exceptional times, business as usual is no longer an option. If we are to transform the future, if we are to change course, we must rethink education. This means forging a new social contract for education.” This message immediately brought back fond memories of my French literature teacher who was passionate about the Enlightenment and chose to spend a disproportionate percentage of teaching time on Rousseau, Voltaire and Diderot rather than the heavy guns of the following century, Balzac, Flaubert or Stendhal. As someone who has worked in education for over 30 years, I realise this was the choice of an enlightened teacher within a system that allowed him to deliver the compulsory national curriculum in his own way. He managed to engage us at the tender age of 16 with concepts such as Rousseau’s social contract, common will, common good and the nature of democracy. This was because of his passion for his subject, a desire to educate beyond learning about literature, and a wicked sense of humour. We don’t often have the opportunity in our busy lives to take time to reflect on such big and essential ideas, which is why the International Day of Education is a good time to think about UNESCO’s message to forge a new social contract for education. It r...

On February 16, world leaders are gathering for the Education Cannot Wait High-Level Financing Conference in Geneva. Hosted by ECW and Switzerland - and co-convened by Colombia, Germany, Niger, Norway and South Sudan - the conference provides world leaders with the opportunity to deliver on our promise of education for all. Education is our investment in peace where there is war, our investment in equality where there is injustice, our investment in prosperity where there is poverty. Make no mistake about it, there is a global education crisis that threatens to unravel decades of development gains, spur new conflicts, and upend economic and social progress across the globe. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted at last year's When Education Cannot Wait ( Of the France, Italy or the United Kingdom. Even when they are in school, many are not achieving minimum proficiencies in reading or math. Think about this terrifying statistic: As we have seen from the war in Ukraine, the challenges of the Venezuelan migration to Colombia and South America, the unforgivable denial of education for girls in Afghanistan, and a devastating climate change-driven drought in the Horn of Africa that has created a severe hunger crisis for Africa, the Middle East, South America, and beyond are the problems of the world that we share together. Every minute of every day, children are fleeing violence and persecution in places like Myanmar, the Sahel, South America and the Middle East....