From the article: Improving education outcomes will demand national-level reforms underpinned by a relentless focus on quality, equity, and results. But, at a time of fiscal austerity in donor countries, the International Finance Facility for Education’s promise...
From the article: JOHANNESBURG – Africa is in the midst of an education crisis. Despite pledges to improve access to education for all children by 2030, many African governments are failing to fund this ambitious component of the UN Sustainable Development Goals...
From the article: South Korean students perform well on international tests. But like students all over the world, they are less and less engaged with school. They just don’t like it. “You measure the activity of brain when they are in the the classroom and it’s not...
When the Prime Minister of a country decides to open an education conference to tackle the learning crisis for South Asia – home to almost 2 billion people – it speaks volumes about the high priority the sector is receiving to support the democratization and...
In an interview with one of Argentina’s leading newspapers La Nacion, Commission Director Justin van Fleet speaks about the risk of having up to 825 million young people, by 2030, without the skills required to get a job. All countries face growing and rapidly...
From the article: UNITED NATIONS — A campaign to raise $10 billion to ensure that every child gets a secondary school education by 2030 received support Friday from the U.N. chief, global and regional banks, and 11.5 million young people who are calling for the...
Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown discusses his funding plan to combat global illiteracy with Bloomberg’s Shery Ahn on “Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power.” Watch the video...
PRESS STATEMENT Over 1.5 million youth deliver a petition to United Nations backing $10 billion plan to create an International Finance Facility for Education “Value for money” innovative facility makes aid money go four times further and addresses child labour,...
From the article: Gordon Brown is launching a $10bn (£7.4bn) scheme to widen access to education in some of the world’s poorest countries. The UN global education envoy and ex-UK prime minister wants donor countries to act as guarantors on low-cost lending for...
Youth activists deliver petition with more than 1.5 million signatures to United Nations calling for the biggest education investment in history United Nations Secretary-General, World Bank, and regional development banks advancing proposal for the International...