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UNESCO EDUCATION NEWSLETTER - October 2021
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On World Teachers’ Day, UNESCO and partners urge governments to prioritize teachers in education recovery
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On World Teachers’ Day, celebrated on 5 October under the slogan “Teachers at the heart of education recovery", UNESCO and partners call on governments and the international community to focus on teachers and the challenges facing their profession, and to share effective and promising policy responses.
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UNESCO sounds a warning on what is at stake for education in Afghanistan
“What is at stake in Afghanistan is the absolute necessity of preserving the gains made in education, especially for girls and women,” said UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay. Since 2001 Afghanistan has made advances, according to a new UNESCO report. Yet these critical gains for the country’s development are at risk and the right to education for all learners, especially girls, must be upheld in the face of a looming humanitarian crisis. The report found that during the past 20 years, the total number of enrolled students increased from around 1 million to 10 million learners; the number of teachers increased by 58%, and the female literacy rate almost doubled from 17% to 30%.
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How UNESCO is helping adults resume their education in Cambodia
“I am now more hopeful than ever before.” These are the words of graduate Mut Vibol after having attended Cambodia’s Basic Education Equivalency Programme (BEEP). As an orphan who needed to support his grandmother, he dropped out of school in Grade 6. Mut earns his living as a taxi driver but dreams of becoming an electrician. He found the BEEP platform interactive and was able to continue working alongside his studies. He plans to enroll in an electronics course at Battambang Institute of Technology (BIT) and then open an electronics shop outside his home.
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UNESCO warns 117 million students around the world are still out of school
A year and a half since the COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented global school closures, many students have been able to resume in-class learning, but millions have yet to return to the classroom. Schools are now fully open in 117 countries with a combined learner population of 539 million ranging from pre-primary to secondary levels. This represents 35% of the total student population across the world, compared to 16% who returned to school in September 2020, when schools were only open in 94 countries.
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Building a planet at peace with nature: UNESCO joins Minecraft’s latest challenge
UNESCO is joining Minecraft on the ‘Global Build Challenge 2021: Making Peace with Nature’, as part of its programme to engage students worldwide to address the urgent environmental crisis through education for sustainable development. The Global Build Challenge 2021 will run from 27 September to 19 November 2021 through the videogame Minecraft: Education Edition and allow students to learn about the Sustainable Development Goals, chat with different creatures living on our planet and explore how to shift lifestyles to start living sustainably. The challenge aims to trigger creative ideas on how to change our habits and participate in designing more sustainable, fairer, and healthier societies, in harmony with nature.
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World Teachers' Day 2021: Teachers at the heart of education recovery. A five-day series of global and regional events will showcase the effect that the pandemic has had on the teaching profession, highlight effective and promising policy responses, and aim to establish the steps that need to be taken to ensure that teaching personnel develop their full potential. A calendar of events and the communications materials will be published online and updated on this webpage regularly.
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Presentation of the 2021 UNESCO International Literacy Prizes Laureates The 2021 Laureates of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes were introduced during a special session on 9 September on the occasion of the celebration of International Literacy Day. The UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize was awarded to programmes from Guatemala, India, and South Africa. The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy was awarded to programmes from Mexico, Egypt, and Côte d’Ivoire. Read more
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©UNESCO 2021
Photo credits (in order of appearance): © UNESCO, © Jawad Jalali, Casezy idea/Shutterstock.com, UNESCO / GEM Report/ Faith Ojima Oguche, M2020/Shutterstock.com, Aleksandar Malivuk/Shutterstock.com.
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