Category Archives: Basic education
Pakistan’s elections highlight education challenges
By Nicole Comforto, EFA Global Monitoring Report The candidates in Pakistan’s election last week frequently cited quality education as one of their top priorities and committed to increase government spending on education, for good reason. Pakistan has the world’s second-highest … Continue reading
Turning the ‘resource curse’ into a blessing for education
Maximizing the income from natural resources such as oil and minerals could provide an education to 86% out-of-school children and 42% of out-of-school adolescents in 17 developing countries, according to calculations by the EFA Global Monitoring Report team. Our new … Continue reading
Every child needs a good teacher, especially in the early grades
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Worldwide, 250 million primary school age children are not learning the basics – even though almost half of them are in school. Studies in several countries have shown … Continue reading
We need to act urgently on inequality to get every child into school by 2015
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report There are only 1,000 days to go until the deadline for the Education for All goals, but there are still 61 million primary school age children out of … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Primary school, Rural areas
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Shrinking aid flows risk putting Education for All out of reach
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report New aid figures released this week by the OECD make for sombre reading. Globally, aid has fallen since 2010, with poor countries hardest hit. This is worrying news … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Donors, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized
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Post-2015 and Bali: Without education for all, we can’t achieve sustained prosperity for all
It was very good news that a global meeting this week seems to have made progress in aligning two competing visions for the post-2015 development agenda – one centred on eradicating poverty and the other on sustainable development. But it … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Governance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Quality of education, Uncategorized
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The world’s poorest children are paying a high price for scholarships
By Nicole Comforto, EFA Global Monitoring Report For many donor countries, a large proportion of ‘aid’ never leaves their country. Spending this money on education in the world’s poorest countries could go a long way to giving the 132 million … Continue reading
Let’s choose post-2015 education goals that reflect countries’ own needs
For post-2015 education goals to achieve real change, they need the widest support possible, argues Ed Barnett, an education adviser at the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. (The views expressed in this blog are the author’s and do not … Continue reading
Are we on track for a global education goal? Reflections on the global meeting on education post-2015
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report This week I joined 100 education experts from around the world in Dakar, Senegal, to consider the outcomes of global consultations on post-2015 education goals, organized by UNESCO … Continue reading
Post-2015: If we don’t tackle educational inequality, we’ll fail the fairness test
By Will Paxton, head of education policy and advocacy for Save the Children UK and chair of the Global Campaign for Education UK’s Policy Group, and Anthony Davis, policy adviser for Plan UK As debates about the post-2015 development framework … Continue reading
