Life skills based education, which includes both psychosocial care and more functional skills, has never been an important part of the educational sector in Iraq.
One of the strong features of the university and college sector in this country is the variety of paths for achieving a broadly based education.
At the policy level, UNICEF is supporting the development and dissemination of national standards for quality community based education and improving statistical information and analysis on out of school children to scrutinize factors of exclusion from schooling, and to develop relevant policies and strategies to guide effective education sector reform initiatives.
HIV infection rates within the education sector based on those for other countries in Southern Africa may be as high, if not higher, than the national average.
The workshop aims at enhancing education specialists' capacity in strategic planning and management of education sector based on international experience, advantages, knowledge, expert evaluation, lessons learnt and evidence-based practice.
Chris Geary, head of business solutions at Technical Services, said: "Being part of Kent county council provides us with a strong knowledge base of the education sector.
This paper aims at developing a framework to analyse the structure and the dynamics of the knowledge base in the education sector.
"We have now closed on this larger £3.5 million round in order to expand our team into the U.S. and focus on growing our user base across the education sector".
Peace Corps will also provide national volunteer teachers with education sector specific trainings based on their existing and successful training methodology used for Peace Corps volunteers.
"Based on responses from across the higher education sector Ucas recommended not to move to post-qualification admissions, and we accepted their advice".
Background: The programme design was based on UNICEF's prior experience in the education sector in Myanmar.
