Category Archives: Millennium Development Goals
After Dakar: How does adult learning fit into post-2015 education aims?
By Alan Tuckett, president of the International Council for Adult Education When education policymakers overlook the importance of adult learning, it doesn’t just let down adults who could benefit from a greater commitment to their needs. It also fails to … Continue reading
Ending education’s ‘hidden exclusion’
A new report from Save the Children, Ending the Hidden Exclusion: Learning and equity in education post-2015, offers a detailed assessment of the challenges facing global education. The report’s key argument is outlined here by four Save the Children education … Continue reading
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
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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
Our proposed post-2015 education goals emphasize equity, measurability and finance
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report As the global education community prepares to discuss education in the post-2015 development agenda at Dakar this week, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report team has drawn … Continue reading
Education for All is affordable – by 2015 and beyond
If governments and donors make concerted efforts to meet the promises they made in 2000, basic education for all could be achieved by 2015, according to analysis in a new policy paper released by the Education for All Global Monitoring … Continue reading
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Equity in education post-2015: how do we get there?
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report A good education has been voted the top priority in the UN’s online survey on what people want in a post-2015 world. But what does a “good education” … Continue reading
Education after 2015: The Commonwealth perspective
Commonwealth ministers of education recently outlined their vision for education’s role in the new global goals for development, emphasizing education’s catalytic power and stressing the need for equity and quality in addition to access. By Jonathan Penson, education adviser at … Continue reading
Ending the learning crisis: education and equity after 2015
Today Save the Children is publishing its proposals for the post-2015 global development framework. Giving every child a chance to learn – particularly the poorest – is a central part of this framework, as four Save the Children education experts … Continue reading
