For their Education Commission consultation, Local Youth Corner Cameroon brought together more than 100 students and civil society leaders representing over 20 sub-Saharan African countries.
At the July Education Commission meeting in Oslo, Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Commission Chair Gordon Brown held a press briefing to discuss the Commission’s work and how education gives citizens the “qualifications to participate and be included in their society.”
Reflecting on the outcomes of the Oslo Commission meeting, Commissioner Baela Raza Jamil discusses securing the promise of universal education and how the Education Commission hopes to rise to that challenge.
Norwegian Prime Minister and Education Commission Co-convener Erna Solberg explains how the international community can make significant progress toward the promise of global education if “decision-makers step up to the plate, together with teacher unions, international organisations, the private sector, civil society and others.”
Many countries do not account for children with disabilities in the budgeting for mainstream schooling. Writing on behalf of the International Disability and Development Consortium Inclusive Education Task Group, Polly Meeks and Aletheia Bligh Flower explain what needs to change.
African Educational Trust’s Lynn Davies on education in emergencies and the need to interrupt the “relentless cycles of conflict”
Youth Panelist Shizuka Nishimura tells us why it is important to increase stakeholder participation in realizing SDG goals
World Bank REACH Program Manager Peter A. Holland on financing education and achieving the SDGs
On Friday, April 15, 2016, Finance Ministers and Commissioners of The Education Commission, gathered around to discuss financing education around the globe. See highlights from our Twitter feed.