Category Archives: Primary school

How donors betray children’s hopes in conflict zones

Posted on 18 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español By Sarah Press, Education Thematic Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for Save the Children (UK) If you wanted to put names and faces to the million of forgotten children in the world, you might … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Human rights, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Primary school, Refugees and displaced people | 2 Comments

Pakistan declares ‘education emergency’

Posted on 10 March 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español Kicking off a campaign aimed at making March “the month that Pakistan talks about only two things: education and cricket”, a government commission has painted a damning picture of the country’s education system, whose poor progress towards global … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Finance, Governance, Legislation, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Primary school | 16 Comments

Education failures fan the flames in the Arab world

Posted on 23 February 2011 by EFA Editor

Français | Español | العربية By Kevin Watkins, director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report No one could have predicted that, in the space of a few months, the death by self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian struggling to … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Democracy, Developing countries, Governance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school | 20 Comments

‘Lies, damn lies and statistics’

Posted on 23 October 2010 by Leila Loupis

By Leila Loupis, communications manager, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Français | Español ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’ – one of Mark Twain’s favourite lines, even if he didn’t coin it himself – may not have been heard much at … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Developing countries, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Primary school | 1 Comment

Who’s at school, and who’s missing out?

Posted on 31 March 2010 by Pauline Rose

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 →

Posted in Basic education, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school | 1 Comment