World Heritage Site Videos

UNESCO's World Heritage Program has certified 851 properties which have outstanding universal value and therefore form part of the mankind's cultural and natural heritage. A large number of short videos of World Heritage sites has been edited and adapted especially by UNESCO for online access.

Click here to go to the website
where you can see them all.

Click on the corresponding link to see a video (Via Windows Media) of:

• The Pyramids of Egypt
• The Taj Mahal
• The Roman Colosseum

School Science and Technology education

Just published

UNESCO Resources on School Science and Technology education on CD-Rom

UNESCO has just released a new CD-ROM with a collection of UNESCO documents on science and technology education at the secondary school level. These ocuments include:

• “Guidelines for Policy-making in Secondary School Science and Technology Education”
• “Girls and Science : A training module on motivating girls to embark on science and technology careers”
• “Technology-based training of marginalized girls”
• “Partnerships for relevant science and technology education” and
• “Technology education guide”.

Contact: j.heiss@unesco.org

Literacy, Knowledge and Development

Literacy, Knowledge and Development

This just published report (in Spanish as well as English) is subtitled “South-South Policy Dialogue on Quality Education for Adults and Young People”. It contains the presentations made at the conference of that name held in Mexico City in 2005. The articles concern literacy policies as well as basic education and competence recognition.

While Brazil, India, South Africa and Mexico are singled out as “locomotives of development in the field”, information is also provided on programmes in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Bangladesh, Thailand, China, Guatemala, Nicaragua and the Arab States as a whole.

The Bush administration has emphasized literacy in its dealings with UNESCO, and held a major conference on literacy in conjunction with the UN Summit in 2006.