Education for All: UNESCO says more effort needed on ambitious project

  • 9 years ago
‘Must do better’ is the conclusion of the “latest report from UNESCO’s Education for All programme. The global round-up has some alarming statistics, including that only half the world’s countries are providing all their children with primary education and there’s a huge funding gap to be filled if that situation is to be remedied.

Global: Number of primary school children enrolled in school

The report highlights discrimination faced by girls and minorities across many of the nation’s surveyed. But it’s not all negative; broad progress has been made in achieving education targets in many places. In this edition of Learning World Maha Barada presents three stories exploring the good and the bad, and focusing on the issues at the heart of the UNESCO report.

UNESCO: bad marks for most countries

In this interview Learning World producer Andrea Buring talks to Aaron Benovot, Director of UNESCO’s Global Monitoring Report about what has been achieved since the launch of the Educat

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