Education and Technology, Issues Important to Dominican Republican and UNESCO

Education and Technology, Issues Important to Dominican Republican and UNESCO
Paris, France 10/28/2011

Dominican delegation to participate in the thirty-sixth session of the UNESCO General Conference.

First Lady Dr. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández met in a private audience with the director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova …

First Lady Dr. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández met in a private audience with the director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova with whom she discussed issues realted to Education and Technology.

The meeting took place in the framework of the celebration of the 36th UNESCO General Assembly, held from October 25 to November 10 of this year. The First Lady was accompanied by the Permanent Ambassador-Delegate for the Dominican Republic to the organization Rosa Hernández de Grullón; Ministry of Education advisor Mercedes Hernández, and representatives of the Permanent Delegation to UNESCO in this field.

The First Lady and the UNESCO director general spoke about the quality of education, emphasizing teacher training and the need for greater and better use of technology in the classrooms, through the training of teachers in this subject who would then serve as multipliers of knowledge, an initiative that the representative of the international organization appeared willing to support.

Dr. Margarita Cedeño de Fernández spoke about the programs and projects related to Education and Technology that is being developed in rural and remote areas of the country, which promote education, training and the forming of values as tools for achieving social inclusion social and human development.

She also referred to the Extended Workday pilot project that is being carried out in the country through the Ministry of Education, assessing its importance in developing countries like ours.

Margarita Cedeño de Fernández is now in Paris, France, heading the Dominican delegation that is participating in the thirty-sixth Session of the UNESCO General Conference with the participation of a number of Heads of State and Government from different continents.

Cedeño de Fernández is scheduled to speak in the morning session of October 26 in the Leaders Forum on “Building a Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development”, with the involvement of the Prime Ministers of Kenya and the Republic of Serbia.

The First Lady also visited the headquarters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an entity that promotes policies that improve the economic and social wellbeing of the countries, to address issues regarding education and development.