Education

Le Mauritius Institute of Training and Development (MITD) bâti un groupe d’entrepreneurs professionnel grâce a ses formations technique qu’il offre dans de divers secteur notamment la confection, la confection des bijoux ou même l’hospitalité. L’institut vise principalement les groupes vulnérables. Elle comporte de 22 instituts qui offrent ces formations mais le Ministre de L’éducation, Vasant Bunwaree a souligné qu’ils doivent faire en sorte que les qualifications offertes sont en demande sur le marché du travail. Le concept de Development durable sera bien inclut dans les programmes. De plus, la MITD envisage de faire un training of trainer, d’où les formateur seront forme professionnellement.

Zimbabwe, October 2015

As a follow up to GIME, the GMDC is strengthening partnerships with media training institutions keen to become COE’s for gender in media training.

The COE in gender and media education approach builds on experience gained with media houses

The Zambia Education Act 2011 mainstreams gender in line with Article 14 of the SADC Gender Protocol. This provides for equal access to quality education and training for women and men as well as their retention at all levels of education. It further provides for challenging stereotypes in education and eradicating GBV in educational institutions.

The Taliban attempt to kill a 14 – year-old girl, famous for speaking out against the Islamic militants and their attacks on girls’ education, has triggered a wave of revulsion in Pakistan. Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck while she sat with classmates on a school bus as it prepared to drive students home after morning class in Mingora, a city in the Swat valley where the army mounted major operation in 2009 to crush a Taliban insurgency.

A Forum for African Women Educationalists – Madagascar Chapter (FAWE)’s Centre of Excellence initiative is a school where gender is integrated into the academic curricula, social and physical education programmes. The Forum enrolled Lycée Imerintsiatosika School in Madagascar as a Centre for Excellence for Gender in Education.

Name: Child marriages violate rights
Name of publication: The New Age
Name of journalist: Bongekile Skosana
Date: 12 October 2012
Country: South Africa
Theme: Young women, education, culture and tradition
Skills: Perspective, sources
Genre: News
Gem classification: Gender aware
As the country commemorated International Day of the Girl Child Yesterday, the Women Children and People with Disabilities Ministry released statistics that showed teenage girls who marry at a young age were most likely not to complete their education. The study shows that: “girls with low levels of schooling are more likely to be married early and child marriage has has shown to virtually end a girls education. Conversely, girls with secondary schooling are up to six times less likely to marry as children, making one of the best strategies for protecting girls and combating child marriage. À

The research team explored the target audience’s overall impressions of teacher-student relationships; knowledge and understanding of the topic, beliefs, myths, norms, attitudes, practices and experiences relating to teacher-student relationships; nature of problems and key areas of concern of teacher-student relationships and how these affect the target audience; barriers to behaviour change and life experiences to obtain information for designing appropriate messages for the target audience.

On the issue of harmful practices, the CRC should be read in conjunction with other UN and regional treaties which are more explicit on the issue and stress in a more explicit way the role that customs and traditions may have in perpetuating violence against children.

Discuss comprehensive issues around the prevention of HIV and AIDS among the people both male and female adolescence to young adulthood.