By Manos Antoninis, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report The inclusion of “managing for results” as one of the pillars of the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness signalled strongly the need to turn a page in development cooperation relationships; the need to shift from recounting the volume of overseas development assistance to [...]
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By Elise Legault, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report team Aid analyses by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report tend to put greater emphasis on basic education than on the whole sector. One reason is that the Education for All and Millennium Development Goal movements have focused on increasing access to basic [...]
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By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The 2,000 aid policy makers gathering at the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, could offer renewed hope for the 67 million children around the world who are still not in school. Delegates will discuss how to improve [...]
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Around 7 million primary age children are still out of school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, even though primary education officially became free in 2010, the IRIN news service reports, citing a study conducted by the DRC government with the UK Department for International Development and UNICEF. The wars between 1996 and 2003 have left [...]
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By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All goals just four years away, some questions about the future of global development efforts are becoming urgent. Where will the development agenda be in 2015? How will education fit into [...]
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A major event in Copenhagen next week could make a crucial difference for the 67 million children around the world who are still not enrolled at school. Representatives of developing country governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies, civil society organizations and private foundations will gather at a pledging conference on November 8 to mobilize resources and [...]
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As many countries succeed in expanding access to primary schooling, demand for secondary school places is building. The latest edition of the Global Education Digest, published by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), highlights the number of children who are unable to enter secondary school. The problem is particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa, where only [...]
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Representatives of the 210 youth delegates who attended the UNESCO Youth Forum presented the forum’s report to the UNESCO General Conference last week. The report encourages member states to “expand the scope of education by including entrepreneurial skills and training opportunities, and intergenerational partnerships for youth aligned to rapidly changing labour market needs.” The 2012 Education [...]
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