Tag Archives: basic education

Bangladesh faces a skills development challenge

Posted on 25 October 2012 by EFA Report

Afsan Chowdhury, senior communications adviser for the non-government organization BRAC, looks at what Bangladesh needs to do to bridge the skills deficit that is revealed in the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report. This article was first published in The Daily Star, … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Equity, Gender, Primary school, Quality of education, Skills, Uncategorized | Tagged bangladesh, basic education, BRAC, education, primary education, skills training | 3 Comments

BRIEFLY: Gordon Brown calls for new global education fund

Posted on 27 January 2012 by EFA Editor

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, a co-convenor of the High Level Panel on Education, released a report this week calling for the establishment of an independent global fund for education, to raise the $16 billion needed each year to … Continue reading →