Education was categorised into three levels: (1) lower secondary or none (UNESCO level 0 2), (2) upper secondary (UNESCO level 3 4) and (3) tertiary (UNESCO level 5 6) (UNESCO, 1997).
In 2008 UNESCO did just that.
A 2009 UNESCO Global Monitoring Report found that of the 72 million children out of school globally, four fifths were rural.
There are a total of 88 Unesco university chairs in Africa, but only two other chairs focusing on bioethics.
The country has 14 Unesco world heritage sites, and more than 1,000 artifacts and properties — castles, temples, shrines, modern buildings and objects of art — designated as national treasures.
22 Unesco Welcomes U.S. Return President Bush's announcement that the United States would return to Unesco after 18 years has its director looking to focus on educational, environmental and cultural problems instead of internal reform.
National commissions, composed of local experts, have been set up by about 180 UNESCO members and serve as governmental advisory bodies in their respective states.
SIX BIOSPHERES WORTH A TRIP There are 580 Unesco biosphere preserves in 114 countries, which means you could spend a lifetime hopping from one to the next and never quite reach them all.
On Oct. 31, 2011, Unesco defied a legally mandated cutoff of American funding and approved a Palestinian bid for full membership by a vote of 107 to 14, with 52 abstentions.
The peloton will be transferred to Brittany, where the riders will battle it out on a 33-km time trial to Mont St Michel, one of 10 UNESCO World heritage sites on next year's route.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first American secretary of state to visit Unesco, coming this year to support an initiative on education for girls and young women, and Ms. Bokova emphasizes that since 9/11, Unesco has run its largest education project in Afghanistan, opening literacy centers for civilians as well as Afghan police officers.
