Category Archives: Basic education

The G8 must renew its commitment to basic education worldwide

Posted on 12 June 2013 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Primary education is a fundamental building block of lives and livelihoods – and of wider development. But progress toward universal primary education has stagnated, there are still 57 … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Donors, Finance, Group of 8, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Primary school, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Reductions in aid jeopardize schooling for millions of children

Posted on 10 June 2013 by GEM Report

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, and Albert Motivans, head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Millions of children may be denied access to school due to reductions in aid, according … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Donors, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Africa’s resource wealth could end illiteracy and build an educated middle class

Posted on 7 June 2013 by GEM Report

By Caroline Kende-Robb, executive director of the Africa Progress Panel A new report from the Africa Progress Panel shows that mineral wealth could transform education in Sub-Saharan Africa, building on the findings of the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, Developed countries, Economic growth, Employment, Finance | Tagged | 3 Comments

High-Level Panel post-2015 roadmap: Close, but still some way to go

Posted on 31 May 2013 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report The just-released Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda is to be commended for putting forward a clear roadmap for the way ahead. Feeding … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Equity, Finance, Gender, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Quality of education, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Pakistan’s elections highlight education challenges

Posted on 15 May 2013 by Nicole Comforto

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 →

Posted in Basic education, Finance, Gender, Governance, Out-of-school children, Quality of education, Rural areas, Teachers, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Turning the ‘resource curse’ into a blessing for education

Posted on 7 May 2013 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Developing countries, Economic growth, Finance, Governance, Innovative financing, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Every child needs a good teacher, especially in the early grades

Posted on 22 April 2013 by Pauline Rose

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 →

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Equity, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Quality of education, Skills, Uncategorized | 9 Comments

We need to act urgently on inequality to get every child into school by 2015

Posted on 15 April 2013 by Pauline Rose

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 | 10 Comments

Shrinking aid flows risk putting Education for All out of reach

Posted on 5 April 2013 by Pauline Rose

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 | 1 Comment

Post-2015 and Bali: Without education for all, we can’t achieve sustained prosperity for all

Posted on 27 March 2013 by Pauline Rose

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 | 11 Comments