Senior Policy Analyst on the Education for All Global Monitoring Report team Aaron Benavot, presented the 40th launch of the Global Monitoring Report on Education at the 19CCEM Youth Forum at Atlantis, Paradise Island on June 22, 2015. The findings of the report indicated that although progress was made, the Education For All goals were not achieved.
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Findings of the
Global Monitoring Report Indicate that Education for All Goals Have Not Been
Achieved, but Progress Has Been Made
Paradise Island, The Bahamas. June 22, 2015
– During the morning session of the 19th
Conference of Commonwealth Education Minister’s (CCEM) Meeting Youth Forum, Senior
Policy Analyst on the Education for All Global Monitoring Report team Aaron
Benavot, presented the 40th launch of the Global Monitoring Report
on Education, indicating that the Education For All goals have not been
achieved.
Goal 1 - Early Childhood Care
Findings
indicate the following:
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Mortality dropped by 50% but 6.3 million children
still die before the age of five.
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Malnutrition fell by 40% but 1 in 4 children are
still short for their age.
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Only half of countries achieved a pre-primary
enrolment ratio of 80%.
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Only 40 countries have made pre-primary
education compulsory.
Goal 2 – Access to Quality Education, including compulsory
primary education, for children.
Findings
indicate the following:
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Despite progress, just over half of countries
have reached universal primary enrolment.
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57 million children are out of primary school in
2015.
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100 million children will not complete primary
school in 2015.
Goal 3 - Ensuring that the learning needs of
all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate
learning and life-skills programmes.
Findings
indicate the following:
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Under half of countries achieved universal lower
secondary education by 2015.
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63 Million adolescents remain out of school.
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Only 1 in 3 adolescents complete lower secondary
school in low-income countries in 2015.
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Working youth number has not decreased.
Goal 4 - Achieving a 50% improvement in adult
literacy by 2015 and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all
adults.
Findings
indicate the following:
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Progress towards EFA’s fourth goal has been
slow: the global adult illiteracy rate will have fallen by only 23% by 2015,
far short of the 50% target.
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Only a quarter of countries reduced their adult
illiteracy rates by 50%.
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781 million adults are denied the right to
literacy, of which two-thirds are women, unchanged since 2000.
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In Sub-Saharan African half of all women cannot
read or write to community standards.
Student delegates from more than 50 countries in the Commonwealth, listening attentively to the Global Monitoring Report Findings, presented at the 19CCEM Youth Forum at Atlantis, Paradise Island on June 22, 2015, by Senior Policy Analyst on the Education for All Global Monitoring Report team Aaron Benavot.
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Goal 5 - Eliminating gender disparities in
primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in
education by 2015.
Findings
indicate the following:
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Strong movement towards gender parity but almost
a third of countries did not reach gender parity in primary education; and a
half of countries did not reach it in secondary education, while defining and
measuring gender equality.
Goal 6 - Improving all aspects of the quality
of education, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.
Findings
indicate the following:
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While many countries made impressive gains in
access to education, ensuring good quality education remains a challenge
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Since 2000, twice the number of countries (from
70 to 142) have been monitoring learning outcomes in order to improve education
quality.
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In primary education, pupil/teacher ratios have
declined in over 80% of countries.
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In lower secondary education, 87 out of 105
countries have a pupil/teacher ratio below 30:1.
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In one-third of the 91 countries with data for
2012, less than 75% of primary school teachers were trained according to
national standards.
Director Benavot charged the audience of more than 200 local
and international delegates from more than 50 Commonwealth countries to “take
note of the report and the progress that has been made regarding education, but
more importantly read it, understand it, debate it and discuss it;” so that
global policy changes result from it.
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