Are we meeting the UNESCO Education for all programme?
Posted by Ingrid Thomson | 3 Dec, 2007The latest UNESCO Courier (number 10, 2007) has its theme "Education for All, halfway there".
The Education for All programme was launched in 1997 focussing on quality basic education to children, youths, and adults. In 2006, 160 countries set six goals to be met by 2015. The goals included early childhood education, primary school, life skills, adult literacy, gender parity and quality education.
This issue of UNESCO Courier looks at the programme and asks whether we will make it.
Stories include:-
* Education, a fundamental right
* For multilingual education in Africa
* Illiteracy costs more than literacy
* Gender equality in math textbooks: an impossible equation?