Committee: Model United Nations Conference

Topic:Education for Sustainable Development

Country:Portugal

Delegate:Li Han

Education is the key to promoting the sustainable development and improve peoples ability to solve the problem of environment and development.It is a major force for sustainable development change, and for improving peoples ability to transform social ideals into reality.Education not only provides the scientific and technical skills, but also provide motivation, validation, and social support to pursue and apply to these skills.Everyone has equal right to education.However, on a global scale, current education exists many problems:education popularity is not enough, education gender imbalance, uneven distribution of education resources, education infrastructure is not perfect.In the long term, citizen quality is reduced and population quality gap caused the gap between rich and poor is widening , which will go against three pillars of sustainable development environment, social and economic problems.As a member of the committee, the Portuguese has always attached great importance to the sustainable development of education,improving the national education system.Since the United Nations put forward the concept of sustainable development, Portugal has held consultations on the Sustainable Development Goals.The government of Portugal spends 5.8% of the national GDP on education every year, and implements 12-year compulsory education.Public schools are free from primary to secondary school, and there are plenty of public and private universities.For the average level of education in European countries, 21.9% of the population aged 25-64 is below secondary school age.Portugal, however, more than doubled the figure, to 50.2%.In recent years, a number of relevant ACTS have been adopted, such as Principles and Tools for the Establishment of a Higher Education Region in Europe, On the Development and Quality of higher education, on the Financing of higher education, and on the Assessment of Higher education.For uneven distribution of education resources:

for the developed countries:

Country should increase the training of teachers:education workers, and teachers of basic education and secondary education should be through the higher education course to obtain the appropriate qualifications;the University provides educational training for middle school teachers;.Encourage talents to the backward area scattered.Accelerate setting up resources to rural configuration of incentive mechanism.Guiding elements such as capital, technology, talent and management to the rural gathered themselves together, and encourage college graduates to work in the countryside, Mobilizing talents in science and technology, education, health, culture and other fields to go to the countryside.Encourage more college students and the outstanding teachers to teach at education backward place, providing them with more favorable terms.Promote distance education.For developing countries:

the root cause of uneven distribution of resources lies in unbalanced development.Therefore, to achieve balanced education, the development gap between regions should be narrowed first.Portugal believes that all countries should speed up urbanization and new rural construction, and increase support for rural areas and other backward areas.We should increase support and security for poor areas, build a new countryside, cancel agricultural tax, exempt tuition and miscellaneous fees, establish a new rural cooperative medical care system, a rural minimum living allowance system and a new rural social endowment insurance system, etc.The government could introduce measures to provide student loans to students and increase financial assistance to students from poor families in ordinary universities.To conflict and war, the international crisis, since the outbreak of the 2010 crisis, Portugal is in financial difficulties and school enrolment is falling all the way.It took several years to rectify the situation before it returned to normal.Thus it can be seen that the political and economic environment a country is in and the peace or turbulence of the international community have a direct impact on the education of a country.Portugal called for :

Oppose hegemonism and power politics and respect the right of all countries and peoples to live and develop in their own way.To ease the economic and political crisis, the capitalist countries should moderate macroeconomic regulation and control to avoid overproduction.Raise the consumption capacity of producers, raise the national minimum wage standard, improve and implement the minimum wage system.Socialist countries should strengthen and improve all policies to support and benefit agriculture and strive to increase the income of grain farmers.Substantially increase direct subsidies for grain production, comprehensive direct subsidies for agricultural supplies, subsidies for superior seed varieties, and subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery and tools.Increase the range of wages and incomes of enterprise employees.Uphold the basic principle of opposing willful use or threat of force in dealing with international issues.Increase national defense input in building up the armed forces so that the armed forces of all countries can truly act as a strong backing to protect national interests.Safeguard national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.For gender equality:

promote equality between men and women.Strengthen the training of female thought and political education to make it clear that women have the political rights.There should be women in the election.Stipulate legal marriage time to reduce early marriage early childbearing.Portugal calls for countries to actively participate in the UN womens agencys activities in conformity with the charter of the United Nations and give financial support.For education infrastructure:

Raise funds through various channels, tap internal potential, save expenditure and open up a wide range of sources of fund.Take the initiative to contact key enterprises, social organizations, well-known people, mobilize them to actively support the cause of education in backward areas.Give play to the regulatory role of the competent educational authorities, integrate educational resources and strive to combine the strong with the weak.The school implements the first-person responsibility system for safety, and implements the safety work responsibility system at different levels.The school should strengthen the safety education of teachers and students and improve their safety consciousness and self-protection ability.Increase central and local government spending to build power, road and gas networks and other infrastructure in poor areas and improve basic public services.To sum up, Portugal actively supports the activities of the United Nations relating to education for sustainable development and the efforts of individual countries for sustainable development, and will carry out bilateral and multilateral exchanges and cooperation with member States in particular.Portugal is confident of the early realization of education for sustainable development, and believes that inclusive and equitable education and lifelong learning will one day be available to citizens all over the world.