UNESCO Courier articles from April 1996

UNESCO Courier archives from April 1996

Education for tomorrow.
April 1, 1996... In 1993, UNESCO set up an independent International Commission on Education for the 21st century, chaired by Mr. Jacques Delors. The Commission, whose members (see inside back cover) and advisors were drawn from the major world regions, has now...

'Learning to be' in retrospect. (1972 International Commission on the Development of Education report)(includes related article)
April 1, 1996... Almost a quarter of a century ago, UNESCO published the findings of a world enquiry into education in a report entitled Learning to Be. How does this landmark study look today? In 1972, the International Commission on the Development of...

Opening new doors in science education. (includes related article)
April 1, 1996... Science teaching must be rethought from primary school to post-graduate level In the twenty-first century, humanity will have an opportunity to achieve an ambition that has moral as well as technical implications: it will be able to attain an...

The hands-on approach. (science education)(Includes related article)
April 1, 1996... San Francisco's Exploratorium is giving a wide public an informal initiation to science Although education in the United States has not traditionally been regarded as a matter for the Federal Government, in recent years the latter has set...

Schools at the crossroads. (includes related article)
April 1, 1996... Schools often seem to be standing still while the rest of the world moves on. However, a number of social changes now look set to challenge educational systems and the functions of education. Schools are at a crossroads. On the one hand, the...

Distance education in the high-tech era. (includes related article)(Interview)
April 1, 1996... Established in 1974, the Open University of Israel is one of the world's few nationwde distance education universities. It has a study centre in Jerusalem and almost 90 more scattered throughout the country. In addition to an impressive programme...

Africa: a fresh start.
April 1, 1996... The quest for a blend of African traditions with the universal values that will shape the next century More than any other continent, Africa needs to rethink its education systems. All too often, the systems of education inherited from...

The children of Confucius. (education in Asia)
April 1, 1996... Education has played a central role in Asian tradition ever since the time of Confucius In Asia learning has been cherished ever since the time of Confucius, who believed that human beings are perfectible and can be led along the right path...

1996: international year for the eradication of poverty.
April 1, 1996... For there to be peace, there must be knowledge and acknowledgment of others. Peace means lasting respect for differences; peace means never threatening that most important possession of all: life itself. At the dawn of the third millennium, I...

Talamanca-La Amistad: a natural bond between two countries.
April 1, 1996... Bestriding Costa Rica and Panama, the Talamanca-La Amistad Cordillera is a patchwork of natural parks and reserves covering more than 800,000 hectares. It was registered on UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1990 According to an ancient legend of...

Chernobyl today. (Ukraine)(includes related article)
April 1, 1996... In the aftermath of the explosion of reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl (Ukraine) nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986, more than 4 million people living in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia were exposed to radiation. "The Chernobyl disaster is now...

Jocelyne Beroard Kassav': singer with the Zouk group. (music group)(Interview)
April 1, 1996... * How did you get into music? Jocelyne Beroard: My parents loved music and had pretty eclectic tastes, like many people in the West Indies. My brothers and I listened to everything: opera, jazz, bossa nova, Myriam Makeba, Edith Piaf. . . . My...

The rarest, most precious vital force. (science for mankind)
April 1, 1996... This text by Marie Curie (1867-1934), who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and was sole winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is the preamble to a memorandum on international scholarships for the advancement of science which she...