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Links to sites of interest |
Education-specific Links |
 The Global Information Networks in Education (GINIE) The Global Information Networks in Education (GINIE) serve as a 'virtual learning community' for education innovation in nations in crisis and transition. They use Internet-based technology to build a capacity for rapid access to information and expertise for education professionals working internationally in nations in crisis and at risk to disruption. |
| Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) The Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) was founded in 1956 to foster cross-cultural understanding, scholarship, academic achievement and societal development through the international study of educational ideas, systems, and practices. The Society's members include more than 1200 academics, practitioners, and students from around the world. |
| Distance Education Clearinghouse The Distance Education Clearinghouse Web site provides a wide range of information about distance education and related resources. |
| Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) ERIC is the Educational Resources Information Center, a federally-funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and anyone interested in education throughout the United States and the world. ERIC is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. |
| Education Virtual Library The Education Virtual Library is a compilation of key links on education; even though it isn't the biggest index of the web, the VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the web. |
| The History of Education and Childhood An international archive of links and source materials on the history of education and the history of childhood. |
| UNESCO: International Bureau of Education (IBE) In 1969, the IBE joined UNESCO as an integral, yet autonomous, institution with three main lines of action: organizing the sessions of the International Conference on Education as an international forum for dialogue on educational policy; collecting, analysing and disseminating educational documentation and information, in particular on innovations concerning curricula and teaching methods; and undertaking surveys and studies in the field of comparative education. |
| State of the World's Children 2001 (UNICEF), 2000, 1999 Each year, The State of the World's Children report examines a key issue affecting children. The State of the World's Children 2001 details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving - in the face of war, poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic - to protect the rights and meet the needs of these young children. Country profiles, maps and statistical data for 193 countries are also presented. |
| Education Planet Education Planet delivers high quality educational resources, tools and services that empower K-12 teachers, students, parents and administrators to effectively and creatively utilize the web for education. Currently, Education Planet hosts over 100,000 quality educational resources including over 16,000 lesson plans. Education Planet's award-winning site is driven by our powerful search selection technology that helps busy teachers, students and parents quickly search or browse from a wide variety of quality educational resources. |
| Education World Education World is designed to be that resource guide for educators. They created an information source on the Web with news from USA Today, monthly site reviews and employment listings to keep educators up to date. And they created original content such as lesson plans, articles written by education experts, and information on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom, so that educators could find ideas at the click of a mouse. |
| Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) ADEA is a network of partners promoting the development of effective education policies based on African leadership and ownership. |
| International Labour Office: Education Division The ILO is known for its long-standing work on vocational training policy and structures, but it also has an active sectoral programme in education. The ILO's special competence lies in its detailed technical knowledge of what constitutes good employment practices -- recruitment, career development, salaries, working conditions and labour relations -- as the basis for education reform and quality. |
| Basic Education and Policy Support (BEPS) Project BEPS is a five-year education initiative that assists the U.S. Agency for International Development to improve and expand basic education, especially for girls, women, and other underserved populations. |
| Ministries of Education Addresses |
| Links to Ministries of Education websites (by Children's Research) |
| Links to Ministries of Education websites (by Harvard University) |
International Organizations |
| United Nations The United Nations was established on 24 October 1945 by 51 countries committed to preserving peace through international cooperation and collective security. Today, nearly every nation in the world belongs to the UN: membership now totals 189 countries. The United Nations is central to global efforts to solve problems which challenge humanity. |
| United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations. |
| UNESCO Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (PROAP) Publications PROAP is the site of regional programmes for Education, Culture, Social and Human Sciences and Communication/Information/Informatics throughout Asia and the Pacific. PROAP is thus mandated to be the principal regional focal point for these areas of competence, serving as a forum for common issues, as a channel through which information, expertise and extra-budgetary opportunities can be made available to Member States, and as a base for the major networks of the region. |
| United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) For more than 53 years UNICEF has been helping governments, communities and families make the world a better place for children. Part of the United Nations system, UNICEF has an enviable mandate and mission, to advocate for children's rights and help meet their needs. |
| Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) The OECD groups 30 member countries in an organisation that, most importantly, provides governments a setting in which to discuss, develop and perfect economic and social policy. They compare experiences, seek answers to common problems and work to co-ordinate domestic and international policies that increasingly in today's globalised world must form a web of even practice across nations. |
| World Health Organization (WHO) The objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health, as defined in the WHO Constitution, is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. In support of its main objective, the Organization has a wide range of functions |
| Save the Children Save the Children is the leading UK charity working to create a better world for children. We work in 70 countries helping children in the world's most impoverished communities. Emergency relief runs alongside long-term development and prevention work to help children, their families and communities to be self-sufficient. |
| PLAN International PLAN is an international, humanitarian, child-focused development organisation without religious, political or governmental affiliation. Child sponsorship is the basic foundation of the organisation. |
| Peace Corps World Wise Schools World Wise Schools (WWS) is an innovative education program that seeks to engage learners in an inquiry about the world, themselves, and others in order to broaden perspectives; promote cultural awareness; appreciate global connections; and encourage service. |
| Inter-American Dialogue The Inter-American Dialogue is the leading U.S. center for policy analysis, communication, and exchange on Western Hemisphere affairs. The Dialogue seeks to promote informed debate on hemispheric problems, advance opportunities for regional economic and political cooperation, expand channels of communication among the countries of the Americas, and bring fresh, practical proposals for action to the attention of governments, international institutions, and private organizations. |
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Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas The Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL) is a hemispheric partnership of public and private sector organizations seeking to promote informed debate on policy alternatives, identify and disseminate best education practices emerging in the region and elsewhere, and monitor progress toward improving education policy. |
| List of International Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO's) |
International Banks |
| World Bank The World Bank is the world's largest source of development assistance, providing nearly $16 billion in loans annually to its client countries. It uses its financial resources, highly trained staff, and extensive knowledge base to help each developing country onto a path of stable, sustainable, and equitable growth in the fight against poverty. |
| World Bank Development Gateway The development Gateway is a portal on development issues from which users will be able to access information, resources, and tools and into which they will be able to contribute their own knowledge and experience. |
| International Monetary Fund (IMF) The IMF is an international organization of 183 member countries, established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment. |
| African Development Bank (AFDB) The African Development Bank is the premier financial development institution of Africa, dedicated to combating poverty and improving the lives of people of the continent and engaged in the task of mobilising resources towards the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries. |
| Asian Development Bank (ADB) The Asian Development Bank is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. Established in 1966, ADB is now owned by 59 members, mostly from the region. |
| Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is an international financial institution created in 1959 to help accelerate the economic and social development of Latin America and the Caribbean. Its cumulative lending and technical cooperation amounted to more than $104 billion at the start of the year 2000. |
Country/Region/International Information/Resources |
| The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources This section of the WWW Virtual Library system presents over 2000 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics. Most of the sites are in English, and are carefully selected for long-term value, favoring those with cost-free, high-quality information and analysis online. Many are gateway sites or have internal search engines. |
| CIA World Fact Book The World Factbook is produced by CIA's Directorate of Intelligence. The Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities. |
| Library of Congress Country Studies The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors. |
| The EFA 2000 Assessment: Country Reports The EFA 2000 Assessment, launched in 1998 took stock of the status of basic education in 180 countries and evaluated the progress that achieved during the 1990s. The most in-depth evaluation of basic education ever undertaken, the EFA 2000 Assessment results were presented at the World Education Forum (26-28 April 2000, Dakar, Senegal). |
| OneWorld.net OneWorld is dedicated to harnessing the democratic potential of the internet to promote human rights and sustainable development. OneWorld aims to be the online media gateway that most effectively informs a global audience about human rights and sustainable development. |
| newafrica.com Education This is the channel to the best and latest information about education in africa . We have an intension to offer connections to colleges and universities in African countries. We also have a target to provide very informative guide to education systems in various african countries. |
| Orientation: Africa Orientation is developing a series of regional and country Internet portals, which share common technology, design and navigation, but with content that is uniquely individual to the region or country it serves. Orientation Africa is one of these truly local services. |
| Education in Latin America (LANIC) LANIC's mission is to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Our target audience includes people living in Latin America, as well as those around the world who have an interest in this region. While many of our resources are designed to facilitate research and academic endeavors, our site has also become an important gateway to Latin America for primary and secondary school teachers and students, private and public sector professionals, and just about anyone looking for information about this important region. |
| Orientation: Latin America Orientation is developing a series of regional and country Internet portals, which share common technology, design and navigation, but with content that is uniquely individual to the region or country it serves. Orientation Latin America and Caribbean is one of these truly local services. |
| Orientation: Central and Eastern Europe Orientation: Latin America Orientation is developing a series of regional and country Internet portals, which share common technology, design and navigation, but with content that is uniquely individual to the region or country it serves. Orientation Central and Eastern Europe is one of these truly local services. |
| Also, our country pages link to more information about the countries in which IEQ works. |
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