Initiatives

Institute of oil and gas (UK-Ang) — the Commonwealth of Nations (the United Kingdom).

There is no alternative — only development and healthy ambitions! The creation of an essentially new pedagogical complex today requires, first of all, opening access to affordable high-quality education, irrespective of the residence and social status of the potential student.

Institute of oil and gas (UK-Ang) is the only higher educational institution in the world, created (founded) in accordance with the progressive ideas of the Commonwealth of Nations (the United Kingdom).

Institute of oil and gas (UK-Ang) shares the ideas of the Commonwealth of Nations (the United Kingdom) and aspires to become the only higher educational institution in the world which offers youth from developing countries a real opportunity for receive education.

The Commonwealth of Nations is the union of the independent sovereign states which appeared as a result of the disintegration of the British colonial empire. They pursue independent policies and cooperate on the basis of the previously formed common interests. The mutual relations between the states-members and their relations with the Great Britain are determined in Westminster statute of 1931 as independent and equal both in internal and in foreign policy.

Declaration of the Commonwealth principles (Singapore, 1971) confirmed its voluntary character. The Commonwealth of Nations consists of 30 republics and 21 monarchy. 16 monarchies recognize the British crown, represented in these countries by the governor-general, as the head of the state, and five monarchies have their own kings. The head of the Commonwealth and its symbol is the British King (Queen).

The UNESCO concept “Education for all”.

Institute of oil and gas (UK-Ang) joins the progressive ideas of UNESCO which are stated in the concept “Education for all”

“Education for all” (Education for All - EFA) is a priority direction of UNESCO’s activity. In 2000 at the World Educational Forum in Dakar six Education for all goals to be achieved by 2015 were accepted:

• expanding and perfecting complex measures aimed at the care after and the education of children of younger age, especially the most vulnerable and destitute ones;
• providing free and compulsory high-quality primary education for all children, especially girls, children from disadvantaged backgrounds and minority children by 2015;
• guaranteeing that by 2015 all young people and adults have equal access to educational programs and obtaining skills;
• increasing adult, especially women, literacy by 50 per cent by 2015, and providing all adults equal access to basic education and an opportunity to go on learning throughout their lives;
• achieving gender parity in primary and secondary education by 2005, and gender equality in education by 2015, with special attention to providing girls with full and equal access to a high-quality basic education and taking care of their excellence;
• improvement in the quality of education in all its aspects, aiming for a situation where people can achieve excellence and learning outcomes that are recognized and can be measured, particularly with regard to literacy, numeracy and other skills essential for life.

The states-participants of the Forum agreed to annually issue Global Monitoring report on the program “Education for all” (EFA Global Monitoring report) on results of their work, informing of the state of education in the world. On results of work within of realization of these problems three reports have already issued, these are “Is the world on the right track?” (2002), “A jump to equality” (2003/04) and “The Quality Imperative” (2005).

The global report will be devoted to problems of illiteracy liquidation. Covering the process of achieving six December forum goals, the report will define and give the common concept of literacy, will analyze various methods of estimation and monitoring of a literacy level, will present and compare the strategies of literacy development in different countries.

UNESCO is the United Nations Organization dealing with the questions of education, science and culture (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).

History

After the end of the Second World War, on November 1-16, 1945, the Conference of the United Nations concerning the foundation of the organization on education and culture was taking place in London. Representatives of approximately 40 states took part in the work of the conference. The organization was created on November, 16, 1945 in France. The charter of UNESCO was adopted during the London conference in November, 1945 and came into force on November, 4, 1946, after the adoption acts’ having been put in storage by the twenty states which signed it. In 1972 UNESCO adopted the Convention on the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage.

Activity

• contribution to the piece and safety consolidation by expanding cooperation of peoples in education, science and culture spheres to provide universal respect, justice, the observance of legality, human rights and basic liberties proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations for all peoples, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion;
• grant to everybody full and equal opportunities to receive education, unhampered searches of an objective truth and free exchange of ideas and knowledge.

Tasks

• carrying out perspective researches on education forms, science, culture and communications;
• promotion, transfer and exchange of knowledge, based, mainly, on scientific researches, educating and teaching;
• realization of normative activity: preparation and acceptance of the international acts, compulsory recommendations;
• providing services of experts in the form of “the technical cooperation” to states-members to decide on their policy in the sphere of projects development and elaboration;
• carrying out an exchange of specialized information.

Structure

The General conference includes representatives of all states-members of the Organization. It is assembled once in two years, states-members and members-collaborators taking part in its work. States which are not UNESCO members, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations and funds are invited to participate in the General conference as observers.

The Executive Board is, in a sense, a Supervisory board of UNESCO. It prepares the work of the General conference and controls the realization of its decisions. It selects 58 members of the Board. The candidates are selected with due consideration of the variety of cultures and geography they represent. The Executive board gathers two times per year.

The secretariat consists of the employees appointed by the Director General.

All employees are divided into the categories “professional services” and “common services”. According to the policy of decentralization carried out, more than 680 employees work in 58 subdivisions of UNESCO in different countries of the world.

Now 191 states are the members of the organization.

The headquarters of UNESCO are situated in Paris.