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Education is a fundamental human right.

In the last decade under the objectives outlined in the Millennium Declaration, a lot of progresses have been made in order to achieve full and universal access to quality education. Despite the progress made in the last decade, there is still a long way to go so that this goal is achievable and become a reality.

The objectives outlined by 2015 in the Millennium Declaration in 2000 established that all children regardless of gender or social origin should have equal opportunity to complete at least the primary school and also promote a significant increase in the rates of schooling the student population in general.

Despite the progress made in the last decade to reducing the number of children without access to education of about 106 million to 67 million, according with the EFA Global Monitoring Report of 2011 many are still out of school, and if current trends continue, it seems that in 2015, there will be more children without access to education than at present, about 72 million.

In spite of progress there is still much to do in the areas of combating school dropout, gender discrimination, ethnic discrimination, lack of qualified teachers, lack of decent facilities, lack of programs and learning materials, minimization of the rurality factor, among others. These are factors that make the goal of universal  education with the same quality accessible to all under the same conditions more difficult to achieve.

Armed conflicts, the use of schools as divisive factor at cultural and ethnic level, the mass movements of populations in regions of conflict aggravates further the conditions for achieving the goals set by the United Nations.

Adult education is also a goal of reaching out, about 17% of the adult world remains without basic school qualifications, about 796 million people.

Education is a key aspect of human development, a vehicle for peace promotion, tolerance and respect between peoples, cultures and ethnicities, which promotes the improvement of life conditions, equality, provides employment opportunities and techniques skills helping to eradicate poverty and helps improving health, among others. The education deserves more attention, commitment and efforts of the world community than that which has been made so far, for example, only about 2% of all world humanitarian aid goes to education.

If access to education is important, no less important is to ensure the its quality,  that is also a global challenge.

The quality of education is, among others, directly related to the availability and quality of learning materials. Many schools around the world have little more than a tableau and some books. The lack of equipment and books often stem from lack of financial resources, inefficient distribution systems and corruption.

There are few developing countries or in the development process that can ensure that their students have access to the entire set of books and materials needed for schooling.

Some governments are involving the private sector in production and distribution of textbooks, which in some cases and due to price factor, underline the exclusion of access to the poor and disadvantaged.

Another important factor is the language of instruction, which has a direct impact on learning and academic performance that should begin at the student's home language, which does not always happen, forcing students to begin their journey using an unknown language, or by political imposition or by lack of  content or qualified teachers to teach in home language. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa there are over 2,500 languages ​​where only 13% of children receive primary education in their mother tongue.

Aware of this problem, WOAS being a worldwide organization for the promotion of advanced studies, emphasizing the availability of knowledge, science and technology at the service of humanity and for human development, intends to join the global effort to promotion of universal quality education through the development and implementation of an ambitious project in a global scale that will enable millions of children, youth and adults can have an easier way to access quality content, with respect of ethnic diversity and cultural of all peoples, the  QINet Project.



                          HIGHTLIGHTS

QINet - Project Author

The QINet "Digital Network of Qualification" is based on the winner project of the WOAS contest "An Idea, One Project and a Better World - 2010" subordinate to the theme "How to solve the problem of transverse knowledge across the future different generations with the accentuate of social cleavages and asymmetric developments?" Whose author is the WOAS Gold Member Mr. Rui Bram, that as transfered his rights relating to the use and explotation of the QINet project to Woas.


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