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What is a Virtual School?

Virtual School

The term “virtual high school” sounds futuristic and mysterious, but it’s really only another name for online school. Students and their parents typically choose this relatively new educational style because of its flexibility and convenience. Virtual schools are frequently regarded as the descendants of correspondence schools (better known as distance learning schools), where students and teachers are in different locations, but communicate via Skype, email, or instant messaging.

Monitoring and Coordinating Education Development

Education Development

Education is a basic human right and is essential for the exercise of all other rights. Yet there are still 774 million illiterate in the world and 58 million children are still out of primary school, and many more young and adult women and men are not learning what they need to know to lead healthy fulfilling lives.

Lifelong Learning Systems

learning

As the lead UN agency in education, UNESCO helps countries develop and reform their education systems at all levels -- from early childhood through primary, secondary, post-secondary to higher education -- in all settings (formal, non-formal and informal) and for children, youth and adults.

Skills for Work and Life

skills

Faced with high levels of youth unemployment, rapidly changing labour markets, technological advancement, globalisation, and persistent social inequalities and tensions, many governments are prioritising the development of skills for the world of work through technical and vocational education and training (TVET).