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UNESCO
"The annual UNESCO report
provides a detailed assessment of progress towards key education goals,
including early childhood development, universal primary education, gender
equality, literacy and good quality education."
EFA
- Education for All - Global Monitoring Report 2009
Overcoming Inequality: Why Governance Matters
Despite much progress since 2000, millions of children, youth and adults still lack access to good quality education and the benefits it brings. This inequality of opportunity is undermining progress towards achieving Education for All by 2015.
Who are these individuals and groups? What are the obstacles they face? How can governance policies help break the cycle of disadvantage and poverty? What policies work? Is education reform integrated into the bigger picture? Is the international community making good on its commitments?
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"The UNESCO Report documents
what it describes as a "vast gulf" in educational opportunity
separating rich and poor countries."
"Girls are still neglected in
education. Gender enrolment gaps remain large across much of South Asia and
Sub-Saharan Africa. Disadvantages based on language, race, ethnicity and
rural-urban differences also remain deeply entrenched.
There are still and
estimated 776 million adults lacking basic literacy worldwide - 16%
of the world's population. Two-thirds are women.
One in three children in developing
countries (193 million in total) reaches primary school age having had their
brain development and education prospects impaired by malnutrition."
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