In the Media
Closing the Education Gender Gap (Project Syndicate)
From the article: On this International Day of the Girl, the number of girls not attending school, despite having fallen by 40% since 2000, still stands at 130 million. This represents both a moral and a practical failing, because girls are not receiving the education...
The Rohingya Children of Karachi
From the article: Areeba is a Rohingya belonging to a migrant family from Myanmar. Her ancestors escaped from their land when it was Burma. They ran for their lives during the vicious recurrent cycles of purges against them as a minority group. Areeba was born in...
UN envoy Brown says donors, governments must up education efforts (DevEx)
From the article: UNITED NATIONS — International donors need to reconsider their aid budgets and invest more in global education in order to combat a dangerous trend that would see more than 200 million children still out of school by 2030, says Gordon Brown, the U.N....
Leaders pay lip service to making crucial investments in education (Financial Times)
From the article: At the heart of the global effort to improve educational attainment is a contradiction. Everyone supports the idea that providing quality education in developing countries is beneficial, but funding by both governments and aid donors continues to...
World leaders commit to tackling global education crisis (UNICEF Press Release)
From the press release: NEW YORK, 20 September 2017 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres; United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed; heads of state of France, Norway, Malawi and Senegal; and other global education leaders today committed to...
A Double Betrayal for Refugee Children (Project Syndicate)
From the article: Last year, the Education Cannot Wait fund was created to close the education-financing gap for refugee children and ensure that the necessary resources are available when disaster strikes. It was a heartening development, but the harsh reality is...
Sharing the future by building better education systems (Brookings)
From the article: William Gibson, the lauded science fiction novelist, is credited with the saying: “The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.” Like far too many other profound and attributed quotes, no one seems to be able to pin down whether...
Investing in Africa’s education (CNBC Africa)
Speaking with CNBC Africa, Commissioner and former President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete makes clear that countries “cannot develop without education” and that the G20’s decision to back the breakthrough International Finance Facility for Education...