02/17/2010

Education for All?

UNESCO's Education for All movement, adopted in 1999 with great enthusiasm, is encountering challenges in their aim to meet the learning needs of all children, youth, and adults by 2015.  In its 2010 Global Monitoring Report,  "Reaching the Marginalized", UNESCO pointed out areas where progress is stalled, if not falling back. 

• In India, 25% of teachers in government-run schools are away on any given day; and of those present, only half were actually teaching when researchers made spot checks.  Teacher absenteeism rates are around 20% in rural Kenya, 27% in Uganda, and 14% in Ecuador.
• The numbers of enrolled school-age children dropped by 33 million in 2007 compared with 1999.  About 15 million of that fall came in India alone (although UNESCO says statistics may understate the problem by up to 30%).  In countries like Liberia and Nigeria, the numbers have hardly budged since 1999.  Of the 72 million children still outside school, 45% are in sub-Saharan Africa.
• In more than one-third of the countries followed, more than 30% of young adults have fewer than four years of schooling — 19 of these countries are in Africa; the remaining three are Guatemala, Pakistan, and Nicaragua.

The report observes that the hardest job remaining is enrolling children from remote areas, who speak minority languages or come from cultures that place little value on schooling or from castes that have been long excluded from it.

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