Although considerable progress had been achieved in restructuring the public education system, equitable access to quality education still remained a challenge.

Providing quality, relevant and equitable primary education to an increasing number of children in the member countries is both a challenge and an opportunity.

Quality education for all

Remoteness affects the quality of education.

And nowhere does the quality of an education system exceed the quality of its teachers.

C. High quality and culturally appropriate indigenous education

Telehealth was based on the fundamental premise that there should be equitable access to quality health care.

Education, especially through the pursuit of the six Education for All (EFA) goals and efforts to promote quality education.

Even the quality of education was not extensively debated.

In 2000, 79 schools offered this type of quality education.

These principles emphasize equitable access and a rewarding education experience for both boys and girls.

Indigenous education must urgently be improved in both quantity and quality.

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Equally important is the second area, the provision of quality education.

Good quality education provides a foundation for genuine dialogue among peoples.

Emphasis on the right to and the quality of primary education

The High level Group on Education for All, meeting in Brasilia in November 2004, focused on quality education.

Our aim is to provide high quality education for all, with relevant content, and to expand pre school education.

For example, in South Africa the Education Quality Improvement Partnership, which was initiated by the National Business Initiative, works with education ministries, individual school administrators, parent teacher associations and non governmental organizations to improve the quality of education in government schools.

(g) Ensure that indigenous children have access to free primary quality education

Some of these factors are inherent to the proper system such as the quality of education, availability of didactic material, quality of teachers and the education ministered, and the higher teacher to student ratio.

The first piece of the puzzle is remoteness and the quality of education.

Quality education, quality health care, decent employment, leisure for youth, and other goals cannot be fully realized if poverty prevails in a society.

Another element of the move towards consolidation in promoting quality in basic education is the increased focus on life skills education.

(a) The right to education is a key instrument for achieving equitable development and respect for cultural diversity.

However, the equitable availability of high quality medical care depended upon interactive audio visual communication that could be provided by space communications technology.

Traditional harmful practices hinder equitable access of women and girls to comprehensive and affordable quality primary health care services, in particular reproductive health services.

That same money could be much better used to improve the quality of work in the classroom and for general improvement of the education quality.

Education facilities in the rural areas are considered to be inferior in quality and infrastructure.

Schooling must always provide meaningful, quality education which enables the full development of the human person.

He supported the Commission for Social Development's call for universal and equitable access to quality education, the highest possible standard of mental and physical health and access for all to primary health care as part of the effort to eradicate poverty, promote full and productive employment and foster social integration.

Clearly, China needs to reform its higher education institutions, including technical and vocational training programs. At the same time, it must expand opportunities for anyone with talent to acquire high quality secondary and tertiary education, thereby reducing substantial disparities in the accessibility and quality of higher education across regions and social groups.

We need to provide better focused public investment and improve the quality of external resources if we are to promote trade and investment on more equitable terms.

Eliminating poverty and keeping the pledge of quality education for all comes down to a single question.

Education for All goal 5 on the elimination of gender disparities in education by 2005 and on the achievement of gender equality by 2015 is directly linked to access and quality education issues.

On education, a speaker expressed support for UNICEF efforts to improve the quality of education and suggested further cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in achieving universal primary education.

We also agree with the Secretary General that we should not focus only on providing universal education, but that more emphasis should be placed on quality education.

The discrepancy is delaying the achievement of universal primary education, while the attempt to increase the number of children in schools is compromising the quality of education.

Sport and physical education are an essential element of quality education, and promote positive values and skills which have a quick but lasting impact on young people.

Second, the Government intended to expand quality pre primary education to 90 per cent of Ethiopian children and increase secondary education participation rates to 20 per cent.

(b) Focus area 2. Basic education and gender equality Focus on improved developmental readiness for school access, retention and completion, especially for girls improved education quality education in emergency situations and continued leadership of the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI)

However fierce the global competition, they should concentrate on safeguarding quality and achieving excellence in research and education.

Generally rural areas do not have higher education facilities of the quality that are available in urban areas.

To valorize education as a transversal theme, highlighting the importance of the quality of the education of the professionals, of the methodologies used, of the schools and equipment.

Education is vital to poverty eradication, social integration and full employment, and essential to the achievement of a more just and equitable global society.