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Latin America for Quality
Education in 2017
Education ministers from 42
Latin American and Caribbean
countries are concluding a
meeting here to achieve quality
education for all by 2017.
The forum, organized by UNESCO
and opened Thursday, is
assessing quality of education
in the subcontinent, as well as
progress of the Regional
Education Project for Latin
America and the Caribbean (PRELAC),
an idea agreed upon in 2002 in
Havana, Cuba.
During the meeting s opening,
UNESCO general director Koichiro
Matsuura promised more resources
for regional teaching and
defined three frameworks of
action for the organization,
including the promotion of
education as a human right.
Meanwhile, PRELAC 2002 president
Tomasa Trina, denounced that
current financing is
insufficient to cope with the
2.6 million children absent from
school and the 40 million fully
and 100 million semi-illiterate
people.
The also Cuban deputy education
minister called for joint
efforts to improve children s
precarious education and high
school dropout.
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