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Topic 1a. Social Justice
Equitable access to education and participation in higher education are essential for the excluded people empowerment, as for the knowledge community all over the world.
Equitable access to a quality education helps to personal development and promotes social justice and cohesion between communities (http://www.iau-aiu.net/content/pdf/Access_Statement_July_2008.pdf). Equity goes beyond meaning equal opportunities; it involves the restoration of social justice and announces a state of balance and constant proportionality between training and access in the professional field throughout all the life. Both notions in this regard are completely interrelated.
Equity refers to the use of public services for satisfying human needs, as well. For UNESCO, this involves educating according to differences and individual needs, without the harsh economic, demographic, geographic or gender related impediments to learning.
The eradication of poverty, universal access to primary education and gender equality are listed as the first three goals of the Millennium Declaration signed by the United Nations in 2000 (Millennium Development Goals). These are objectives that remain as priorities in the current international context of global crisis.
There is a major upcoming role for HE related to the renewal of thought, by making knowledge accessible and useful in a broader sense of engagement with society. In this sense, GUNI has as permanent focus on the satisfaction of human needs as a basis for social and environmental development, and focuses its work on the improvement and implementation of this area.
Equitable access to a quality education helps to personal development and promotes social justice and cohesion between communities (http://www.iau-aiu.net/content/pdf/Access_Statement_July_2008.pdf). Equity goes beyond meaning equal opportunities; it involves the restoration of social justice and announces a state of balance and constant proportionality between training and access in the professional field throughout all the life. Both notions in this regard are completely interrelated.
Equity refers to the use of public services for satisfying human needs, as well. For UNESCO, this involves educating according to differences and individual needs, without the harsh economic, demographic, geographic or gender related impediments to learning.
The eradication of poverty, universal access to primary education and gender equality are listed as the first three goals of the Millennium Declaration signed by the United Nations in 2000 (Millennium Development Goals). These are objectives that remain as priorities in the current international context of global crisis.
There is a major upcoming role for HE related to the renewal of thought, by making knowledge accessible and useful in a broader sense of engagement with society. In this sense, GUNI has as permanent focus on the satisfaction of human needs as a basis for social and environmental development, and focuses its work on the improvement and implementation of this area.
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