{"id":6448,"date":"2015-09-14T06:53:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T06:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6448"},"modified":"2015-09-14T06:53:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T06:53:05","slug":"esd-is-a-priority-for-commonwealth-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/09\/14\/esd-is-a-priority-for-commonwealth-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"ESD is \"a priority\" for Commonwealth Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from UNESCO UK said that \"<em>ESD is increasing\u00a0its\u00a0profile in the Commonwealth<\/em>\". \u00a0It seems that, at the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (in the Bahamas from 22 to 26 June \u2013 must have been nice),\u00a0education ministers from <em>all<\/em> 53 nations declared:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"ESD\u00a0is recognized as a priority for future planning by ministers, as well as the role of education at the heart of the process for driving the Sustainable Development Goals.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The theme of the conference was:\u00a0Education in the Commonwealth: Quality Education for Equitable Development: Performance, Paths and\u00a0Productivity (3Ps)<\/p>\n<p>It seems that ministers also\u00a0highlighted the Commonwealth values of equity, access\u00a0and development, stressing the key role of ESD in achieving these. \u00a0More information on the outcome of the event, and\u00a0the full Nassau Declaration, is <a href=\"http:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/sites\/default\/files\/news-items\/documents\/The%20Nassau%20Declaration%20-%2019CCEM.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The burning question is: did any UK education\u00a0ministers turn up to this \u2013 and did they sign?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from UNESCO UK said that \"ESD is increasing\u00a0its\u00a0profile in the Commonwealth\". \u00a0It seems that, at the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (in the Bahamas from 22 to 26 June \u2013 must have been nice),\u00a0education ministers from...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}