Education sector

Education Sector

The Education Sector Reforms aim to address these issues.

Each target is gender disaggregated in Education Sector Reforms (ESR) and Education For All (EFA) Programs.

The national education system is divided into three subsectors the general education sector, which is run by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport the technical education and vocational training sector, which is run by the National Institute of Technology (INATEC) and the Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) and the higher education sector, which is run by the universities.

In the education sector more women are employed than men (42 ).

A delegation requested further information on basic education, gender equality and the role of UNICEF in the education sector.

Our success in the primary education sector is perhaps the most remarkable.

United Nations technical agencies have made significant investments in the education sector.

The UNESCO education sector includes the development of national plans and programmes on human rights education through national and subregional projects.

f UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Sector, Excel File Tertiary_WGE_9802, Worksheet Number of students per 100000 inhabitants in Tertiary education, April 2005 .

g UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Sector, Excel File Tertiary_WGE_9802, Worksheet Gross enrolment ratio in tertiary education (ISCED 5 and 6), April 2005 .

γ Source UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Sector, Excel File Tertiary_WGE_9802, Worksheet Number of students per 100000 inhabitants in Tertiary education, avr 05

β Source UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Sector, Excel File Tertiary_WGE_9802, Worksheet Gross enrolment ratio in tertiary education (ISCED 5 and 6), avr 05

Equally encouraging, the private education sector, which represents about 85 per cent of the total, is now more integrated into the national education system.

The higher education sector is also facing retention problems, in both State and private universities.

Key areas of intervention included water, health care, education, social services and the private sector.

In the education sector, mandatory education had been introduced for children from 6 to 16, as well as legislation penalizing parents who violated that provision.

In 2004, 54.4 per cent of higher education enrolments were female, as were 48 per cent of enrolments in the vocation, education and training sector.

The private sector is seen as an important stakeholder in the education and employment of young people.

In 1991, just over 16 per cent of the total budget was allocated to the education sector.

Ethiopia had given priority to developing human resources and expanding education, with growing participation by the private sector.

The Committee welcomes the adoption of the Framework for Education Development into 2020, a strategic plan for the reform and development of the education sector in the State party.

The Government reported on a range of existing initiatives to promote anti racism and interculturalism in the education sector and to support the participation in education of non nationals.

Government Policy The policy documents of the Government relating to education are the National Education Policy 1998 2010, the Ten Year Perspective Development Plan and the Education Sector Reforms (information on these is included in the annexes).

Promotion criteria are defined by specific legislation for specific areas, such as education, public administration and the health sector.

At present, the entire education and training sector has been implementing various national plans in the period 2000 2005.

MINUGUA verified gradual expansion in bilingual education and in the accessibility of the justice sector to those speaking indigenous languages.

In the education sector, enrolment levels increased from 659,503 in the 2001 02 academic year to 1,092,721 in 2003 04.

h) Ensure that private sector educational institutions adhere to gender equality policy to encourage equal education of women and girls

This amount would be sufficient to eradicate the main shortages in the education sector, which are estimated at 60 million.

The primary education sector also faces important problems, mostly related to insufficient or poorly maintained infrastructure and acute shortages of teachers.

For decentralization in the forest sector, one can draw lessons from similar processes in other sectors such as health and education.

Women's involvement in the formal sector has mainly been urban based, mostly as civil servants in the health and education sectors.

Employment of women in the public sector. The Committee noted that women's share of the public sector employees was only 21.4 per cent and that they were concentrated in the health and education ministries.

The Department of Education and Science Gender Equality Unit focused on the education sector, while the Ministry of Finance Gender Equality Unit oversaw the implementation of equality policies in the employment of civil servants.

Some representatives of member Governments also pointed to the importance of microfinance and education in encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Under the auspices of the Transitional Government, education is becoming a more dynamic sector in Haiti, actively supported by the donor community.

The MTR summary did not fully reflect the awkward situation of the UNICEF embargo on cash advances, especially in the education sector.

In the educational sector, the free, compulsory and universal basic education policy ensured that primary education was widely accessible and free schooling had been extended to cover kindergarten beginning in the 2006 07 academic year.

That requires equipping workers with a good education, strong on the job training, and supportive infrastructure. While the private sector must create most of the jobs, the public sector must create the underlying conditions for high productivity.

c UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Sector, Excel File Primary_Secondary_WGE_9802, Worksheets Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), April 2005 and Net Enrolment Ratio (NER), April 2005 .

α Source UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Education Sector, Excel File Primary_Secondary_WGE_9802, Worksheets Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), avr 05 Net Enrolment Ratio (NER), avr 05

In the education sector, UNICEF is the lead agency and secretariat for the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI) which brings together United Nations agencies, the World Bank, donors and NGOs to support country level efforts to influence decision making and investments in national education policies, plans and programmes.

These measures have been drawn from the National Health Policy, Education Sector Reforms, Labor Policy, Access to Justice Program, Police Reforms, Poverty Alleviation Program etc.