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How to pay for Africa’s education gains (Project Syndicate)
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...
The former education minister of one of the world’s smartest countries explains the role of AI in schools (Quartz)
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...
South Asian education leaders explore delivery approach to solve education challenges at scale
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...
$10 billion campaign launched to educate every child by 2030 (NYT)
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...
Statement from Gordon Brown on the International Finance Facility for Education
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,...May 11, 2018 | More than 1.5 Million Youth Call for Urgent Breakthrough in Education Funding
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...May 7, 2018 | South Asia Leaders Meet In Nepal To Radically Improve Education In The Region
30 million children at the age of 5-14 are currently left out of school KATHMANDU, May 7, 2018 – Facing an urgent need to tackle the learning crisis across South Asia, Ministers of Education, senior officials from finance and planning, international education experts,...
Latin American finance leaders have the power to transform education (Clarin)
This opinion editorial was written by former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón and originally appeared in Spanish in Clarín. This week, finance leaders from across Latin America gathered in Mendoza for the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IADB) annual board...