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The Bunge y Born Foundation signed a funding convention for the value of 1,144,340 Argentine pesos on March 17 this year with the International Institute of Educational Planning of UNESCO (IIPE-UNESCO), whose Regional headquarters are located in Buenos Aires, to implement the Bicentenary Schools Project.
The four-year Project is about achieving improvements in schooling and aims to support state schools in low-income catchment areas from the provinces of Tucumán, Chaco, Corrientes, Buenos Aires and Santa Cruz.
The assistance involves creating improvements in:
- Basic health conditions in the context of learning needs.
- Institutional management in schools.
- Developing the main academic areas by providing support to teachers for planning, carrying out and evaluating teaching proposals.
- The operations of the local Teacher Training Institutes.
Monthly training days will be organized for local teams from each province as well as for teachers with the aim of transferring capabilities and know-how in the key areas mentioned. This will be carried out simultaneously at provincial level, by training technical teams in the areas of School Management, Mathematics, Languages, Natural Sciences and Health education, and at school institutional level by putting into place techniques to develop academic planning, evaluation and performance aimed at achieving improvements at teaching level and fostering improved learning abilities among pupils.
The convention was signed at the headquarters of the Bunge y Born Foundation by its president, Jorge Born (son) and Margarita Poggi, director of the IIPE-UNESCO.
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