By Katy Webley, head of education for Save the Children (UK) 2010 is the year for education. As we mark the Campaign for Education’s Global Action Week, we’re looking ahead to reform of the Fast Track Initiative, the 1GOAL campaign, the education summit in Johannesburg in June, and the Millennium Development Goals summit in September. [...]
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Desmond Tutu and Dennis Van Roekel (president of the U.S. National Education Association) added their voices this week to the calls for a concerted global push to meet the Education for All goals by 2015, in an opinion article in The Huffington Post. They called on the U.S. Congress to support Congresswoman Nita Lowey’s Education [...]
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By Samer Al-Samarrai, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In this year’s Global Monitoring Report we highlighted the impressive increases in spending on primary education that many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made since 2000. About two thirds of these rises have been made possible by high and sustained rates of economic [...]
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De nouvelles données sur l’aide au développement ont été publiées par l’OCDE mercredi, donnant pour la première fois une idée de l’impact de la crise financière sur l’aide au développement. Alors comment les choses se présentent-elles? Premièrement, de quasi bonnes nouvelles. En moyenne, l’aide des pays riches n’a pas diminué entre 2008 et 2009 et [...]
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By Elise Legault, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report New aid figures were released on Wednesday by the OECD, shedding for the first time some light on the impact of the financial crisis on development assistance. So how are things looking? First the not-so-bad news. On average, aid from the richest nations did [...]
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By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report There are few starker indicators of global inequality than maternal mortality. Risks of death from causes associated with pregnancy in childbirth are heavily concentrated in developing countries – over 80% of fatalities happen in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The world’s most dangerous [...]
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By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Give a man a fish, as the saying goes, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you nourish him for a lifetime. But that’s nothing. Give a girl an education and you not only transform her life chances [...]
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Numerous voices have risen this week to praise India’s historic Right to Education Act, which came into force on 1 April. The new law establishes the right to education of every child aged 6 to 14, and addresses India’s need to provide more schools and teachers, and further develop training and curriculums. The impact of [...]
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