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Commission announces phase two priorities
The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity will continue its work in 2017 to disseminate the Commission report and agenda for action, inspire and motivate reforms in financing and delivery of education and structure partnerships to carry...
Second Pioneer Country visit brings Commission delegation to Malawi
From November 9-11, His Excellency Jakaya Kikwete, the former President of Tanzania, led a mission to Malawi. This was the second visit as part of the Education Commission’s Learning Generation Pioneer Country activities. His Excellency met with Prof. Peter Mutharika,...
First set of Commission background papers released
Today, the Education Commission released the first set of research papers that helped to inform the Learning Generation report. The Commission worked with 30 institutional research partners across Europe, North America, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East to...
Pioneer Country Initiative launches in Uganda
His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the former President of Tanzania and member of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (The Education Commission), has concluded a very successful two-day visit to Uganda on behalf of the Commission....November 8, 2016 | President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda received high-level Education Commission delegation led by former President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete
His Excellency Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, the former President of Tanzania and member of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity (The Education Commission), has concluded a very successful two-day visit to Uganda on behalf of the Commission....
United Kingdom government welcomes Education Commission report and pledges support
Yesterday, the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity’s (Education Commission) report, “The Learning Generation: Investing in education for a changing world,” was received by a UK Parliamentary Panel. Lord Bates, the Minister of State for...
The United Kingdom is well positioned to build on the growing momentum in global education
By Alice Albright The unmistakable and growing momentum in global education over the last year received an especially big boost in September when the International Commission for Financing Global Education Opportunity (more simply known as the Education Commission)...October 27, 2016 | Statement from Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education
Speaking to the United Nations Correspondents on 27 October 2016, UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown said: “With the latest descent into barbarism – with at least 20, and probably upwards of 30, pupils and teachers dead after a succession of strikes on...