Leadership & Accountability
Shakira: “Buscamos que en el 2030 toda la población infantil tenga educación” (CNN en Español)
La cantante colombiana Shakira y el primer ministro británico Gordon Brown trabajan en una iniciativa global que busca el apoyo de los países industrializados y emergentes para lograr oportunidades de educación para niños en el mundo, especialmente por aquellos que...
On the eve of the G20 Summit, Education Commission members call on world leaders to fund global education
NEW YORK, July 6, 2017/ — Addressing an energized audience of tens of thousands at the Global Citizen Festival in Hamburg, Education Commission Chair Gordon Brown and Commissioner Shakira Mebarak made an urgent appeal for world leaders to put education on the...
Make or break moment beckons for education at G20 summit (Guardian)
From the article: Campaigners who believe funding for schooling in the world’s poorest countries has hit crisis levels say next month’s G20 meeting will be a “make or break” moment for education. The share of aid funding spent on education has fallen for the past six...
Aceleremos el progreso educativo (El País)
From the article on El País: Enfrentamos retos formidables. La población mundial aumentará en más de 2 mil millones de personas hacia 2050 y debemos ser capaces de garantizar mejores condiciones de vida para más personas, particularmente en los países en vías de...
Africa: from the Nairobi workshop, a newfound value for ‘ruthless prioritization’
The Ghanaian delegation at the Learning Generation Lab Workshop in Nairobi, from L to R: Professor Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa, Special Assistant to the Minister of Education; Veronica Dzeagu, National Coordinator of Ghana National Education Campaign; Ernest Otoo, Head of...
Want a Better, Safer World? Build a Finance Facility for Education (SSIR)
From the article: In transitioning to lower-middle-income status, countries can find themselves in a position similar to that of many middle-class American families struggling to finance their children’s college: They’re too poor to pay for education and too rich to...
Pakistan’s education financing—a glass half empty? (Geo.tv)
From the article: On March 28, 2014, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif publicly announced his commitment to raise the education budget to 4% of the GDP by 2018. His commitment was later reinforced when he endorsed the proposals of Gordon Brown,...
#WEFAfrica17: Education crisis ‘the civil rights struggle of the day’ (IOL)
From the article: Durban – Tanzania’s former president, Jakaya Kikwete, on Wednesday said the education crisis in Africa was today’s civil rights struggle, and called on leaders in the developed and developing worlds to act urgently. Kikwete was speaking at the World...