Conversations on Vietnam Development
Monsanto announced it would commercialise four new genetically modified corn breeds in Vietnam in October this year.
According to Do Quang Truong, technical director of Dekalb Vietnam, the Vietnamese representative of Monsanto in Vietnam. Of the four breeds, DK6919R is pest resistant while the remaining three, namely DK9955S, DK8868S and DK6919S are both pest-resistant and herbicide-resistant. Tiếp tục đọc “Monsanto to commercialise four new GM corn breeds”
Rethinking Education in a Changing World
As an international laboratory of ideas, UNESCO has launched a process of rethinking the fundamental principles that guide our approaches to education and learning in the current context of globalization. In order to do so, the Director-General of UNESCO has established a Senior Experts’ Group chaired by Ms. Amina Mohammed, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning. A first meeting of the Senior Experts’ Group was organized in February 2013 in order to initiate the process. See report of meeting
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Learning: The Treasure Within
Learning: The Treasure Within, commonly referred to as the ‘Delors Report’, proposes a holistic and integrated vision of education based on the paradigms of lifelong learning, and the four pillars of learning to be, to know, to do, and to live together.
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The Faure Report builds on the two key ideas of lifelong education and the learning society. It claims that “learning is a process that lasts a lifetime, both in its duration and its diversity”. While lifelong education is considered to be the cornerstone of educational policies, the learning society is seen as a strategy aimed at committing society as a whole to education.
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The four pillars of learning are fundamental principles for reshaping education:
Learning to know: to provide the cognitive tools required to better comprehend the world and its complexities, and to provide an appropriate and adequate foundation for future learning.
Learning to do: to provide the skills that would enable individuals to effectively participate in the global economy and society.
Learning to be: to provide self analytical and social skills to enable individuals to develop to their fullest potential psycho-socially, affectively as well as physically, for a all-round ‘complete person.
Learning to live together: to expose individuals to the values implicit within human rights, democratic principles, intercultural understanding and respect and peace at all levels of society and human relationships to enable individuals and societies to live in peace and harmony.
Tiếp tục đọc “UNESCO: Four Pillars of Learning – Bốn Cột Trụ Giáo Dục”
Visions of Learning
UNESCO has long promoted a humanistic vision of learning based on principles of respect for life, human dignity, and cultural diversity, as well as social justice and international solidairty. This vision has been outlined in the two landmark publications, Learning to Be (1972) and Learning: The Treasure Within (1996). UNESCO is now building on these reports to rethink education in the current context of change, complexity, and uncertainty.
Rethinking Education in a Changing World
As an international laboratory of ideas, UNESCO has launched a process of rethinking the fundamental principles that guide our approaches to education and learning in the current context of globalization. In order to do so, the Director-General of UNESCO has established a Senior Experts’ Group chaired by Ms. Amina Mohammed, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Post-2015 Development Planning. A first meeting of the Senior Experts’ Group was organized in February 2013 in order to initiate the process. See report of meeting
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Vietnam is in talks with European and U.S. contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defenses in the face of China’s growing assertiveness in disputed waters.
Tiếp tục đọc “Exclusive: Vietnam eyes Western warplanes, patrol aircraft to counter China”
Pháp Luật
2015-03-05T10:11:38
Thứ trưởng Nguyễn Quốc Cường đã nêu bật những nỗ lực của Việt Nam trong thực hiện các cam kết quốc tế về quyền con người, trong đó có việc các khuyến nghị cơ chế Rà soát Định kỳ Phổ quát (UPR) chu kỳ 2 đã được chấp thuận, các cam kết tự nguyện với tư cách thành viên HĐNQ, phê chuẩn Công ước Chống tra tấn và Công ước về Quyền của Người Khuyết tật.
Tiếp tục đọc “Việt Nam nỗ lực thực hiện cam kết quốc tế về quyền con người”
Washington (CNN) Four million current and former federal employees may have had their personal information hacked, the Office of Personnel Management said on Thursday.
The agency, which is conducts background checks, warned it was urging potential victims to monitor their financial statements and obtain new credit reports.
U.S. officials believe this could be the biggest breach ever of the government’s computer networks.
The breach is beyond the Office of Personnel Management and Department of Interior, with nearly every federal government agency hit by the hackers, government officials said. Tiếp tục đọc “China hacks US government”
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Defense Secretary Ashton Carter’s remarks at the Shangri-La Dialogue on May 30 amounted to a robust, but measured, defense of the United States’ rebalance to the Asia Pacific and its commitment to remain a Pacific power.
The speech covered a broad spectrum of U.S. commitments to the region—economic, political, and security—before concluding with an enthusiastic articulation of the United States’ interests in the South China Sea and commitment to pursue them. Tiếp tục đọc “Carter on the South China Sea: Committed and (Mostly) Clear”
Tuesday 10 December 2013 is World Human Rights Day, marking the 65th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly vote to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In recognition of this milestone, this week The Religion Factor features a series of reflections from scholars and practitioners on the relationship between religion and human rights, particularly in developing contexts. In today’s post, Erin Wilson reflects on the debate over whether human rights really are universal and the role that religions can play in relating values and rights from their particular cultural contexts to the universal and back again. Tiếp tục đọc “Religion and Human Rights: The challenges of universalism and cultural particularism”
Philippine President Benigno Aquino refused to pull his punches in Tokyo on Wednesday when he compared Beijing’s actions in the South China Sea to Nazi Germany’s demands for Czech territory in the 1930s.
During a speech to business leaders in the Japanese capital, Aquino blasted the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing claim to a majority of the potentially resource-rich waters of the South China Sea. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippine President Slams Beijing for Acting like Nazis in the South China Sea”
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Mon Jun 1, 2015 5:39pm EDT
Washington: President Barack Obama said on Monday that land reclamation projects in the South China Sea are unproductive and called for an end to aggressive action in the region. Tiếp tục đọc “Obama: land reclamation projects in South China Sea ‘counterproductive’”
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Các chuyên gia từ châu Âu đã đưa ra những đề xuất cho việc giảm nhiệt ở biển Đông.
“Giới truyền thông đại chúng nói rất ít về vấn đề này, còn giới chính trị lún vào các khó khăn nội bộ!” – ông Didier Billion, phó giám đốc Viện Quan hệ quốc tế và chiến lược (IRIS), nhận xét về cách người châu Âu nhìn về vấn đề biển Đông và biển Hoa Đông hiện nay. Tiếp tục đọc “Biển Đông: Liên minh châu Âu không đứng ngoài cuộc”
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