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Category Archives: Marginalization
Education is the catalyst for the millennium goals
Education plays a special role in global efforts to improve people’s lives. As world leaders prepare to gather in New York to review international development goals, we think it’s time to underline just how special that role is. In 2000, … Continue reading
Too little, too late: the cost of aid delays
Lives are being lost needlessly because of an aid system that favours crisis response over prevention By Kevin Watkins, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report from The Guardian, August 2, 2010 Last year, a militia attacked 12-year-old … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Marginalization
Tagged finance, humanitarian aid
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Out of conflict and into school – in two minutes
In a snappy YouTube clip, Katy Webley, head of education at Save the Children, spells out the lessons that her organisation has learned from its Rewrite the Future campaign, including the message that “Education must become part of emergency responses, … Continue reading
Education and mothers’ health – a virtuous circle
By Anaïs Loizillon, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Children’s educational prospects are shaped long before they get anywhere near a school – in the womb, when brain development creates the physical foundations for future learning. In the … Continue reading
Funding fix is good news for Nigerian children
By Samer Al-Samarrai, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In the 2009 Global Monitoring Report we highlighted how a federal programme in Nigeria to provide additional funds for basic education was failing. The Universal Basic Education Commission … Continue reading
Giving education a bigger slice of the pie
By Samer Al-Samarrai, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In this year’s Global Monitoring Report we highlighted the impressive increases in spending on primary education that many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made since 2000. About two … Continue reading
India’s ground-breaking Right to Education Act
Numerous voices have risen this week to praise India’s historic Right to Education Act, which came into force on 1 April. The new law establishes the right to education of every child aged 6 to 14, and addresses India’s need … Continue reading
Who’s at school, and who’s missing out?
By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Global Monitoring Report team How many children are not in school? The figure we give in the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, which has been widely picked up around the world, is … 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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