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Searching with a thematic focus on Children and young people, Education in China

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    New knowledge on children and young people: a synthesis of evidence - summary paper

    Impact Initiative, 2015
    Improving children and young people’s (CYP) wellbeing, and recognising the role they can play in creating a more sustainable world will be critical to meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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    African students in China An exploration of increasing numbers and their motivations in Beijing

    Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2012
    Besides the field of commercial activities, education has become a great component of the Sino-African framework.
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    The links between higher education and jobs in China

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    China has made remarkable economic progress in the past three decades. This has led to a dramatic rise in demand for highly educated workers and consequently, the rapid expansion of higher education. While a degree does not guarantee employment, better quality education more closely in tune with the labour market can address the issue of over-education.
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    Towards equal opportunities for all: empowering girls through partnerships in education

    United Nations Girls' Education Initiative, 2007
    This document looks at education partnerships as a way of empowering girls and promoting equal opportunities. It discuses seven case studies from East Asia on programmes addressing the educational needs of girls, particularly those who are marginalised for economic, social or cultural reasons.
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    Getting girls out of work and into school

    UNESCO Bangkok: Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2006
    In the Asia-Pacific region, girls’ labour, official and unofficial, continues to constitute a major obstacle to accelerating progress towards achieving gender parity and equality in primary and secondary education by 2015.This policy brief summarises the causes and consequences of girls’ child labour on their educational opportunities and describes some of the instruments and strategies in plac
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    The role of education in promoting young people’s sexual and reproductive health

    Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002
    This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as the possible changes needed to enable the education system to respond more adequately.
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    Overview of the impact and best practice responses in favour of children in a world affected by HIV/AIDS

    UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002
    This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses.