Putting Education to Work

Issued on December 05, 2012 at 12:01 PM

Minister for Trade and Development, Joe Costello, TD, launched the 2012 annual report on Education for All on 27th November 2012 in the INTO Learning Centre, Parnell Square, Dublin 1.

Education for All is the global drive to achieve Millennium Development Goal Number 2 by 2015. The 2012 report focuses on “Youth and Skills”; how education must provide young people with a broad range of skills – not just information – to enable young people to access jobs, vocational training and further education.

The report was prepared by UNESCO and contains examples of how education systems are focusing on skills and vocational training, of which many of the examples are highly relevant to Ireland

More information on education and the MDGs can be found on UNESCO site.

In photo: L to R

John O’Brien, INTO; Peter Hamilton, Director of Education Content, INTEL World Ahead Education Programme; Joanna Harma, UNESCO; Minister of Trade and Development, Joe Costello, TD; Moira Leydon, ASTI; Noel Ward, INTO; Vincent O’Neill, Irish Aid.