Category Archives: Millennium Development Goals

We believe education transforms lives. Do you?

Posted on 19 August 2013 by Pauline Rose

With just a few weeks to go before world leaders gather at the United Nations General Assembly, the EFA Global Monitoring Report team is launching a new website, ‘Education Transforms’, containing infographics showing education’s pivotal role in achieving progress across … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Employment, Environment, Famine, Gender, Governance, Health, HIV/AIDS, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Nutrition, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Reproductive health, Sustainable development, Uncategorized, Youth | 3 Comments

UN 2013 MDG Report: despite major progress, greater efforts are needed

Posted on 2 July 2013 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The UN’s 2013 Millennium Development Goal report highlights the gains made so far in achieving the MDGs, but also describes the major challenges that remain. As the report … Continue reading →

Posted in Gender, Learning, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Quality of education, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Is it too much to ask for free quality education for all?

Posted on 17 June 2013 by GEM Report

By Antonia Wulff, coordinator at Education International Education is an inalienable human right – but across the world this right is being undermined by the impacts of inequality, a lack of political commitment and inadequate investment in education. We need … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Equity, Human rights, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Secondary school, Skills, Uncategorized | 7 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

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

After Dakar: How does adult learning fit into post-2015 education aims?

Posted on 29 April 2013 by EFA Editor

By Alan Tuckett, president of the International Council for Adult Education When education policymakers overlook the importance of adult learning, it doesn’t just let down adults who could benefit from a greater commitment to their needs. It also fails to … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Equity, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Training | 7 Comments

Ending education’s ‘hidden exclusion’

Posted on 24 April 2013 by EFA Editor

A new report from Save the Children, Ending the Hidden Exclusion: Learning and equity in education post-2015, offers a detailed assessment of the challenges facing global education. The report’s key argument is outlined here by four Save the Children education … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education | 4 Comments

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

Let’s choose post-2015 education goals that reflect countries’ own needs

Posted on 25 March 2013 by GEM Report

For post-2015 education goals to achieve real change, they need the widest support possible, argues Ed Barnett, an education adviser at the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. (The views expressed in this blog are the author’s and do not … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Equity, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education | 4 Comments

Are we on track for a global education goal? Reflections on the global meeting on education post-2015

Posted on 22 March 2013 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report This week I joined 100 education experts from around the world in Dakar, Senegal, to consider the outcomes of global consultations on post-2015 education goals, organized by UNESCO … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Equity, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education, Uncategorized | 10 Comments