Category Archives: Primary school

Reductions in aid jeopardize schooling for millions of children

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

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

BRIEFLY: Children with disabilities should have an opportunity to learn

This year’s State of the World’s Children report by UNICEF focuses on the many challenges that children with disabilities face in accessing their rights to school and other public services, and proposed solutions to ensure that students with disabilities can … Continue reading

Posted in Human rights, Learning, Marginalization, Primary school, Uncategorized | 3 Comments

The urgency of reaching out-of-school children for economic and social development

Nicholas Burnett is managing director at Results for Development Institute, where he manages the Education portfolio. New analysis from the Results for Development Institute sheds light on the cost to countries’ economies from out-of-school children. Among the most alarming revelations … Continue reading

Posted in Developing countries, Economic growth, Finance, Governance, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

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

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

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

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

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

Post-2015: If we don’t tackle educational inequality, we’ll fail the fairness test

By Will Paxton, head of education policy and advocacy for Save the Children UK and chair of the Global Campaign for Education UK’s Policy Group, and Anthony Davis, policy adviser for Plan UK As debates about the post-2015 development framework … Continue reading

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Gender, Human rights, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Education for All is affordable – by 2015 and beyond

If governments and donors make concerted efforts to meet the promises they made in 2000, basic education for all could be achieved by 2015, according to analysis in a new policy paper released by the Education for All Global Monitoring … Continue reading

Posted in Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Donors, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Finance, Innovative financing, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, North America, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Uncategorized | 11 Comments

A post-2015 youth perspective: It’s make-or-break time for education

By Naim Keruwala I came across this picture on my Facebook timeline a couple of days ago. It captures very well the state of education in many countries, where government schools providing free education are inadequate and quality of education … Continue reading

Posted in Basic education, Employment, Equality, Equity, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Secondary school | Tagged | 8 Comments