Education Policies

UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was born on November 16, 1945. For this specialized UN agency, it is not enough to build classrooms in devastated countries or to publish scientific breakthroughs. Education, Social and Natural Science, Culture and Communication are the means to a far more ambitious goal: to build peace in the minds of men.

Educause
EDUCAUSE is a principal and trusted source for information and advice on policy issues of information technology for higher education in the U.S. They maintain an up-to-date list of policy issues and positions in order to frame and communicate our chosen concerns and directions.

EUROPA
European Commission on Education andTraining The European Union must become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion (European Council, Lisbon, March 2000). Ministers of education agreed on three major goals to be achieved by 2010 for the benefit of the citizens and the EU as a whole: to improve the quality and effectiveness of EU education and training systems; to ensure that they are accessible to all; and to open up education and training to the wider world.

Global Campaign for Education
The Global Campaign for Education promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to fulfill their promises to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people; in particular for children, women and all disadvantaged, deprived sections of society.

ARABEFA
Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All: Meeting Our Collective Commitments. This document reaffirms the goal of education for all as laid out by the World Conference on Education for All (Jomtien, Thailand, 1990) and other international conferences. It commits governments to achieving quality basic education for all by 2015 or earlier, with particular emphasis on girls' education, and includes a pledge from donor countries and institutions that "no country seriously committed to basic education will be thwarted in the achievement of this goal by lack of resources".

Contact Us:

Department of Communication and Creative Arts

Purdue University Calumet
Hammond, Indiana
46323-2094, USA

Telephone:
219-989-2880 or
219-989-2393
Fax: 219-989-2008

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures."
-- John F. Kennedy

"Imagine all the people living life in peace.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
and the world will be as one."
-- John Lennon