The study is intended to provide guidance to organisations working in the education sector and is directed towards policymakers, ICT practitioners and donor agencies, in particular.

This Policy Brief outlines the current position and puts forward an agenda for OECD policy makers under the following headings:
• quality and recognition;
• access and equity;
• financing and cost;
• using cross-border higher education to build capacity;
• policy coherence.

Due to Oxfam's support for safe water and sanitation practices, the community has access to clean, drinking water coming from the tubewell but for the villagers, 'knowledge' is the most important support that they received from Oxfam.

Through the collaboration of its member societies, IFEES seeks to help establish effective engineering education processes of high quality around the world in order to assure a global supply of well-prepared engineering graduates. IFEES also seeks to strengthen member organizations and their capacity to support faculty and students. It will attract corporate participation, amd thereby seek to help to connect engineering graduates with international corporations that have a pressing need for well more...

This is the flagship report of the UNFPA. 'In 2008, the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: For the first time in history, more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, will be living in urban areas. By 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion. Many of the new urbanites will be poor. Their future, the future of cities in developing countries, the future of humanity itself, all depend very much on decisions made now in preparation for this growth.

While th more...

What are employer needs for staff trained in the natural sciences at the master's degree level in the United States? How do master's level professionals in the natural sciences contribute in the workplace? How do master's programs meet or support educational and career goals?

The book considers these and other questions regarding the role of master s education in the natural sciences. It also focuses on U.S. student characteristics and what can be learned from efforts underway to enhance the more...

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between UNESCO and Tokyo's Keio University at the end of June, for “Mobilizing Science Knowledge for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific through Information and Communication Technologies”. Under the agreement UNESCO and Keio are to work together to help strengthen national and regional higher education in Asia and to help develop human resources, particularly in Science, Technology and Engineering through the use of information and commun more...

This brochure briefly describes UNESCO's initiative to create a virtual campus in science and technology for Africa. The initiative is to be an extension of the Mediterranean Avicena Virtual Campus, and is in response to a request from the African heads of state. The brochure is in French as well as English. (PDF, 6 pages)

The project’s aimed to develop a toolkit to support the creation and implementation of digital asset management and preservation in the further education setting, and demonstrate its application in the setting of John Wheatley College (JWC).

The project was funded by JISC under the 4/04 programme3 which funded projects in institutional digital preservation and asset management, with a specific focus on strategies and procedures for long-term digital preservation and asset management. The pr more...

The MacArthur Foundation launched its five-year, $50 million digital media and learning initiative in 2006 to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. Answers are critical to developing educational and other social institutions that can meet the needs of this and future generations. The initiative is both marshaling what is already known about the field and seeding innovation for continued growth.