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The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre was created in 1999 based on the decision of the 30th UNESCO General Conference. [1] A year later, UNESCO and the German government agreed on hosting the International Centre within the Langer Eugen building, the former building for the German members of parliament which now hosts the UN Campus. [ 7 ]
The Institution has continuously grown and in recognition to this sustained prosperity, it was nominated in 2013 to be an East African Community Center of Excellence in TVET. [4] In 2016, the institution became a UNESCO-UNEVOC network centre, the only TVET institution to have such recognition in East and Central Africa. [5]
Vocational education is known by a variety of names, depending on the country concerned, including career and technical education, [2] or acronyms such as TVET (technical and vocational education and training; used by UNESCO) and TAFE (technical and further education).
OAQ – Swiss Center of Accreditation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education; ZEvA – Central Evaluation- and Accreditation Agency; These agencies accredit programs of study for Bachelor and master's degrees and quality management systems (system accreditation) from state or state recognized Higher Education institutions in Germany and ...
UNESCO's founding mission, which was shaped by the events of World War II, is to advance peace, sustainable development and human rights by facilitating collaboration and dialogue among nations. [11] It pursues this objective through five major programme areas: education, natural sciences, social/human sciences, culture and communication ...
In the course of his term, Qian Tang had assumed parallel duties. From September 2015 to July 2016, he was Officer-in-Charge of the Bureau of Strategic Planning, having led the presentation of UNESCO's Programme and Budget document (38C/5) at the 38th session of General Conference. From November 2016 to March 2017, he was Director ad interim of ...
The UNESCO TVET Section, in cooperation with the European Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture and the European Centre for the Development of Professional Training (CEDEFOP), subsequently invited key organizations in Brussels to deliberate on the Shanghai Consensus Recommendation [12] in September 2013.
The UNESCO General Conference adopted their recommendations in the fall of 1962 and the French Government provided a building to house this new institution. [2] Philip Hall Coombs who had been the first Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the Kennedy administration , was appointed as its first director in 1963.