Sentences with phrase «universal primary education»

In many countries even the core goal of achieving universal primary education will remain out of reach without concerted efforts.

More than half (52 per cent) of the 140 countries with data achieved the goal of universal primary education.

But administrative targets for universal primary education do not in themselves create the incentives for investing in the future that fuel growth.

Governments had promised to eradicate extreme poverty, provide universal primary education, push for gender equality, cut child deaths and combat diseases.

One of those aims was to achieve universal primary education by 2015.

These goals were: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, to achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and empower women.

One of the focus areas of universal primary education is to increase access, enrollment of all children and reduce school drop outs.

However, UNESCO's new Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report found that, based on current trends, the world will achieve universal primary education in 2042, universal lower secondary education in 2059 and universal upper secondary education in 2084.

Thanks to UK taxpayers» money children from east to west Africa enjoy free universal primary education.

In 2010, she became a member of the UN Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Group with a special emphasis universal primary education.

William Easterly, in his Elusive Quest for Growth (see also «Barren Land,» Fall 2002), notes the ineffectiveness of past investments in public schools by the international agencies and developing country governments, pointing out: «Administrative targets for universal primary education do not in themselves create the incentives for investing in the future that matter for growth,» that is, in quality education.

It means that the five - year - olds who are now missing out on beginning school will be grandmothers before universal primary education is achieved.

Education includes universal primary education and a global campaign to eradicate adult illiteracy.

Another goal of Roy's is to promote universal primary education in rural areas without relying on the formal system alone: «It destroys initiative and creativity Encourage private initiative without commercializing education.

The delegates in Thailand set a goal of universal primary education in every country by the year 2000.

On current trends, the world will achieve universal primary education in 2042, universal lower secondary education in 2059 and universal upper secondary education in 2084.

In India, the Constitution (86th Amendment) Act 2002 which has made free and compulsory education right of all children from 6 to 14 years of age, gave further thrust to the goal of universal primary education.

Commenting on Gordon Brown's call for a global education fund and a co-ordinated plan for universal primary education, Patrick Roach, Deputy General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and a board member of Education International, said:

The Ghana School Feeding Programme has been ongoing since 2005, under the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme Pillar III, in response to the first and second Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, and achieving universal primary education.

Other goals include halving the global poverty rate; combatting HIV / AIDS, malaria and other diseases; and achieving universal primary education.

Achieve universal primary education, particularly for girls, ethnic minorities and marginalized children.

With our contributions we try to make a small difference on the way towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal 2 «achieve universal primary education» and to reducing poverty in the world by 2015.

Like many other developing countries, Kenya has recently made rapid progress toward the goal of universal primary education.

Achieve universal primary education, particularly for girls, ethnic minorities and marginalised children;

To be attained by 2015, these were, of course, entirely laudable — e.g., «eradicate extreme poverty and hunger» and «achieve universal primary education» — and they have definitely influenced the priorities of various UN agencies, other governmental and multilateral aid providers, and private philanthropies.

The report says to reach the goal of universal primary education would require an extra $ 26bn (# 16bn) per year.

I argue that efforts to achieve Universal Primary Education should not simply pivot from a focus on access to a focus on quality, but should instead work towards dynamics in which they are mutually reinforcing.

A UNESCO Institute for Statistics report predicts that worldwide, we would need nearly 4 million more teachers to achieve universal primary education.

Achieve universal primary education; 3.