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From:TheBahamasWeekly.com Bahamas Information Services Updates
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: · Mortality dropped by 50% but 6.3 million children still die before the age of five. · Malnutrition fell by 40% but 1 in 4 children are still short for their age. · Only half of countries achieved a pre-primary enrolment ratio of 80%. · 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: - Despite progress, just over half of countries have reached universal primary enrolment. - 57 million children are out of primary school in 2015. - 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: - Under half of countries achieved universal lower secondary education by 2015. - 63 Million adolescents remain out of school. - Only 1 in 3 adolescents complete lower secondary school in low-income countries in 2015. - 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: - 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. - Only a quarter of countries reduced their adult illiteracy rates by 50%. - 781 million adults are denied the right to literacy, of which two-thirds are women, unchanged since 2000. - In Sub-Saharan African half of all women cannot read or write to community standards.
Goal 5 - Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015.
Findings indicate the following: - 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: - While many countries made impressive gains in access to education, ensuring good quality education remains a challenge - Since 2000, twice the number of countries (from 70 to 142) have been monitoring learning outcomes in order to improve education quality. - In primary education, pupil/teacher ratios have declined in over 80% of countries. - In lower secondary education, 87 out of 105 countries have a pupil/teacher ratio below 30:1. - 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.
For more information on the report please visit: http://en.unesco.org/gem-report/#sthash.kvGzY9F5.dpbs
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