Right to Education
Who learns and who does not? Examining choices for including the excluded
The discussions in Pakistan around who is in and who is out – who learns and who does not – are getting louder. And so they should, as we now have a mounting burden of unmet milestones that are piling high. Almost six years have passed since education was declared a...
An Education Giving Pledge to achieve the learning generation
The Education Commission’s vision calls for substantially increased resources from all actors to achieve the Learning Generation. The most important financiers of education are domestic governments responsible for funding 97% of the Commission’s projected $3 trillion...
Loosening the purse strings: financing the education of children with disabilities in India
Nidhi Singal and Anuradha De The #CostingEquity Report launched on 17th October at the UN General Assembly clearly states that at a time when global education funding is in decline, such cuts have a disproportionate impact on children with disabilities. The impact of...
Linking education financing to the marginalised children: Kailash Satyarthi at the UN headquarters
At the launch of the Education Commission report, United Nations’ Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recalled Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s maxim, “Freedom and learning are the birth right of every child. They are non-negotiable.” Mr Satyarthi along with an...
Watch Shakira’s powerful message about the importance of education (Popsugar)
From the article: Shakira teamed up with The Education Commission for its #LearningGeneration movement. The Colombian-born “La Bicicleta” singer, who is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, is showing how passionate she is about the role education plays in a...
Jokowi pushes for aggressive education inclusion (Jakarta Informer)
The Education Commission (or the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity) has submitted its first budget proposal to jump-start the push on global education equity for 2030. The latest report from the International Commission on Financing...
Unos 263 millones de niños y jóvenes no van al colegio y 25 millones nunca fueron a clase – Europa Press
Unos 263 millones de niños y jóvenes no van al colegio y 25 millones nunca fueron a clase.
The human right that keeps on giving, by Kailash Satyarthi (Project Syndicate)
In Côte d’Ivoire, I once met a boy working on a cocoa farm whose only dream was someday to taste the rich brown chocolate he helped produce. And in Pakistan, I once rescued a boy who sewed footballs and wished only to play with the product of his work.
UN chief urges global support for plan to unlock biggest expansion of educational opportunity in history (UN News Centre)
For too long, quality education has been accessible to the privileged few, but as people become more interdependent, quality education and lifelong learning must be available to all, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.