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Nepal joined UNESCO on May 1, 1953. The Organization has an office there, based in Kathmandu.

A UNESCO Chair for Teacher Education has been established in 1997 at Kathmandu University.

Nepal is also home to one UNEVOC centre. As of September 2006, Nepal has 86 schools participating in UNESCO’s Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet).

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17-01-2008

Asia and Pacific countries meet in Dhaka to accelerate literacy

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27-11-2007

Fourth UNESCO Regional Literacy Conference to open in New Delhi

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19-06-2007

Designing mother tongue/bilingual literacy programmes in Asia

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03-05-2007

Global Action Week: UNESCO’s Asia-Pacific network promotes EFA

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27-02-2007

Asia-Pacific region assess progress towards Education for All

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06-02-2007

Asia-Pacific: UNESCO and UNICEF host workshop on early childhood policy

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10-01-2006

Case study on Girls’ Education in Nepal

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