Putting Education First

Scotland first legislated for compulsory education in 1496.

Scotland first legislated for universal provision of education in 1696.

In 1996, the first Education Plan for Girls was introduced.

No child repeated classes in the first three years of education.

Educación Viva (Live Education) has released the first of their videos challenging traditional education systems, titled I Don't Believe in Schools but I do Believe in Education.

First established in 1978, it was a major innovation in China's higher education.

It is the last phase of this type of education, by finishing it, children go to Primero Básico (First grade of primary education).

While the first grade is a playgroup, the other two are of classroom education.

In the 1940s the University of Sarajevo became the city's first secular higher education institute.

At first Hong Kong's education came from Protestant and Catholic missionaries who provided social services.

Tilak was amongst one of the first generation of Indians to receive a college education.

Massachusetts had originally enacted the first compulsory education law in the American colonies in 1647.

One may also receive an education in State education facilities within the framework of State education standards on a competitive basis, as well as free secondary vocational training, a higher vocational education, and postgraduate vocational training if the given level of education is being obtained for the first time.

Putting education first is urgent in view of the scale of wasted talent and potential worldwide.

In 1929 it became an intergovernmental organization, the first such organization in the field of education.

One of the first priorities in educational reform in the country involves expanding access to the Girls' Education Programme and to education for children with special learning needs.

The First School War (, ) was a political crisis in Belgium over the issue of religion in education.

In 2004, Oman's first woman minister with a Cabinet portfolio was appointed as Minister of Higher Education.

The Republic of San Marino believes that education must have first place on our scale of priorities.

In 1991, he organized the first conference of deans of Arab law faculties on human rights education.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) officially dropped the term intern in 1975, instead referring to individuals in their first year of graduate medical education as residents.

This guarantees education for all and avoids the symbolic granting of diplomas to children that finish their first cycles of basic education without knowing how to read or write.

Within the framework of the Space Education Project of UNESCO, the first of a series of space education sessions in developing countries was organized in the Philippines in 2004.

The 2004 2007 Multi Year Plan for actions of the Ministry of Education (MEC) included for the first time actions explicitly linked to education in human rights, with the creation of the Program of Education for Diversity and Citizenship.

Rural Training Centres were first established in the early 1980s in response to the training needs of rural youth who left the formal education system after completing only basic education.

First and foremost, young people have themselves become the biggest advocates of universal education for girls and boys.

One way is to transform basic education schools into first grade complete ones from 1st to 7th grade.

Higher Education Women still constitute a majority among the first (55.9 ), second (57.1 ) and third (52.7 ) degree students.

With regards to higher education, there are currently more Bedouin women studying for their first degree than men.

UNESCO financed and technically supported the first ever Education for All conference in Ramallah in April and May 2004, which launched the Palestinian Education for All national action plan currently being implemented.

pre school education, primary education, secondary education, higher education.

The first issue was access to mother tongue education, and a recommendation was made to open at least one school with multilingual education in each city in provinces where the community was mixed.

The first is improving the quality, safety and relevance of basic education, so that student enrolment and motivation remain high.

Its first chair was Charlie McConnell, the Chief Executive of the Scottish Community Education Council, who had played a lead role in bringing together a range of occupational interests under a single national training standards body, including community education, community development and development education.

He was also a speaker and an active participant at the First World Conference on Islamic Education held at Mecca in 1977, where he chaired the Committee on Aims and Definitions of Islamic Education.

The Teacher Education sub programme is designed to meet the requirement of the Government of Jordan and the Palestinian Authority that teachers in the basic education cycle possess four year first level university degrees.

5. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty first session an item entitled Disarmament and non proliferation education .

First, the question is not whether we can afford to provide health care or education for all, or ensure widespread homeownership.

In December, 1885, the cabinet system of government was established, and Mori Arinori became the first Minister of Education of Japan.

In 2012, education firm Pearson ranked Australian education as thirteenth in the worldThe Education Index, published with the UN's Human Development Index in 2008, based on data from 2006, lists Australia as 0.993, amongst the highest in the world, tied for first with Denmark and Finland.

Now, for two new reasons that lie at the heart of UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon s launch of the Education First initiative, education has returned to its rightful place atop the global policy agenda.

Ensuring that all students complete first grade. Because of the high dropout and repeat rates, the Ministry of Education is focusing its efforts on ensuring that students complete first grade (nearly one third of students drop out in first grade).

Additionally, he pointed out that the Commission on Teaching Excellence has teamed up with the Department of Education and is undertaking education reform, which for the first time is being driven by parents, teachers and principals.

Within the framework of this process, one of the first adopted laws is the Framework Law on Primary and Pecondary Education of Bosnia and Herzegovina , whereas the Law on Higher Education in BiH is in preparation.