- As bells ring in many parts of the world this month for the start of a new school year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has called on the people not to forget of those that are left of education.
As bells ring in many parts of the world this month for the start of a new school year, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has called on the people not to forget of those that are left of education.
This forms UNESCO statement on a global conference with the Colombian Ministry of Education in Cali on 11-13 September to mark the 25th anniversary of the Salamanca Statement, a key declaration on inclusion and education.
The conference will look at the bottlenecks and policy solutions to helping all children realize their right to quality education, no matter their background and the factors that may deny this right, such as gender, wealth, migration status or disability.
In addition, three activities are being launched in the build-up to the forthcoming Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report published by UNESCO on inclusion and education and due in March 2020.
First, a global survey addressed to teachers, parents and students aim to assess what they think of inclusion and education: whether they believe it desirable and under what conditions.
The organization is inviting nominations of champions of inclusive education around the world, whether they are pupils, teachers, parents, activists, schools, politicians or NGOs.
Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report, UNESCO, said: “We need to rally new energies and call on countries to go the extra mile to help children still excluded from a quality education”.
