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How to rewrite the future for millions of children
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, … Continue reading
BRIEFLY: “We can no longer step lightly around this shame”
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children
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BRIEFLY: Let’s find new ways of funding inclusive education
“More innovative forms of financing – at both the domestic and the international level – must be found if Education for All is to become a reality,” argues Nicholas Burnett, former Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Health, Innovative financing
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BRIEFLY: Canada and the G8 – an education opportunity
Two striking pieces in Canadian newspapers use the launch in Ottawa on Thursday March 25, of the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report as a springboard to consider how the Group of 8 summit in Canada in June could … Continue reading
72 million reasons to join 1GOAL’s campaign for education
By Adrian Lovett, chair of the 1GOAL campaign committee Congratulations Kevin Watkins and UNESCO. This site will change the world. A decade or so ago when we were building the Jubilee 2000 campaign to drop the debts of the poorest … Continue reading
Europe’s highest court backs Roma in segregation case
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, Europe’s highest court, ruled today in a case involving 14 children in Croatia that the segregation of Roma children into separate classes based on language is unlawful discrimination, violating the … Continue reading
Posted in Developed countries, Ethnicity, Language, Marginalization
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Global “push” is needed to meet Millennium Development Goals, aid officials say
At Agenda 2010 in London on Thursday, a conference hosted by Britain’s Department for International Development, development officials said world leaders must accelerate efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 and rich countries must make good on promises … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Conflict, Donors, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty
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Education charities are chosen for Obama’s Nobel cash
Education charities dominate the list of organisations that President Barack Obama has chosen to send his Nobel Peace Prize, The New York Times reports – including the Central Asia Institute, run by Greg Mortenson (right), author of the bestseller Three … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Gender, Poverty
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Britain underlines support for education as “the best route out of poverty”
DFID, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, has released its new education strategy for 2010-2015, which is closely aligned with the Education for All goals: “In the last decade the number of children out of school has dropped from … Continue reading
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Tagged Education for All, Global Monitoring Report
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Education summit during World Cup will aim to close funding gap
The campaign to ensure that universal education is a lasting impact of the 2010 World Cup received a huge boost when President Jacob Zuma of South Africa and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain announced after meeting in London that … Continue reading
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