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  Distance learning for teacher training in Brazil

  International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2004

  This article describes a distance learning in-service training programme developed to upgrade 27,000 teachers working throughout Brazil. It illustrates design and implementation structure of the programme, called Proformação, and explains why it has proven to be a successful model for the delivery of education at a distance in the Brazilian context.
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  The right to education: mission to Colombia

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2004

  The purpose of the mission of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, from 1 to 10 October 2003, was to investigate in situ the situation of the right to education in Colombia. This report provides the information and conclusions relating to this mission.
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  Land and schooling: transferring wealth across generations

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This article, a summary of the book sharing the same title, examines issues around the allocation of land and education within families.
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  AIDS and girls' education

  Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 2004

  This fact sheet explores the relationship between the education of girls and HIV/AIDS. It argues that education is one of the key defences against the spread of HIV and the impact of AIDS.
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  The Bolivian education reform 1992-2002: case studies in large-scale education reform

  Education Section, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2003

  This case study synthesises the first decade of the of the Bolivian education reform's design and implementation process, from 1992 to 2002.It argues that prior to the reform, behaviourism dominated teaching, instruction was teacher-centred and based on rote learning, and the teaching culture was not open to experimentation and learning.
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  Local solutions to global challenges: towards effective partnership in basic education

  Country Analytic Work, 2003

  This report presents the results of the Joint Evaluation of External Support to Basic Education in Developing Countries (Joint Evaluation) commissioned in February 2002 by a consortium of 13 support agencies with the participation of four developing countries.It argues that the commitment to partnership as a road to the effective provision and use of external support to basic education is evide
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  Sector wide approaches in education

  HLSP Institute, UK, 2003

  This report provides an overview of key issues in the development and implementation of sector wide approaches (SWAps) in education.
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  Education For All Fast Track Initiative

  Education Section, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2004

  This document summarises the key elements of the Education for All (EFA) Fast-track Initiative (FTI), reviews its progress since its inception and presents some of the challenges that it will face in the future.Key events in the evolution of the FTI include:when the FTI was launched in 2002, a pilot set of low-income countries that had completed their PRSPs were invited to participate
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  Access to and privatisation of education

  International Youth Parliament, Oxfam, 2003

  This document, a chapter of the International Youth Parliament’s Youth Commission Report, considers the way that globalisation affects young people and their communities in the specific field of education.It argues that the processes of globalisation have both positive and negative effects on young people and their right to education.
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  Surviving school: education for refugee children from Rwanda 1994-1996

  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2003

  This study explores how education in situations of post-conflict emergency can be established and maintained as a vital psychological support to children and communities. Specifically, the study investigates how education for refugee children emerged and developed after the genocide in Rwanda caused hundreds of thousands to flee to neighbouring countries.

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