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Updates on: India’s primary education effort, and educational conferences in Oman and Kuwait

India is committed to universalizing primary education by 2010, said Congress president and the ruling UPA coalition chief Sonia Gandhi while inaugurating a two-day meet on global literacy. Gandhi also underlined the need for achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 at the Global Literacy Conference, organized jointly by UNESCO and the Indian human resource development ministry.
The conference is a follow-up to the White House conference on global literacy held in September 2006. — Earth Times

Oman’s annual “Conference of English Teachers and Supervisors” (CETS) 2007, organized by the Ministry of Education, will be held beginning Dec. 10. This annual conference is aimed at improving and upgrading the professional skills of the English language teachers in the 1,047 government schools spread all over the Sultanate to enable them to implement best practices in the teaching methods. — Times of Oman

The National Conference for the Promotion of Education in Kuwait from Feb 17 to 19 will deal with basic educational themes namely usage of technology and role of the private sector for promotion of this vital sector.  — Kuwait Times