Category Archives: Health

When learning saves lives: education and child mortality

Posted on 12 April 2010 by Kevin Watkins

By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Give a man a fish, as the saying goes, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you nourish him for a lifetime. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Donors, Gender, Group of 8, Health, Millennium Development Goals | 2 Comments

BRIEFLY: Let’s find new ways of funding inclusive education

Posted on 31 March 2010 by EFA Editor

“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 | 3 Comments

BRIEFLY: Canada and the G8 – an education opportunity

Posted on 25 March 2010 by EFA Editor

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 →