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Global Education

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Agenda

• Current state of global primary education

• Progress on education improvement

• Benefits of an educated society

• Future hurdles to overcome

• Education’s effect on poverty

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Current State of Primary Education

Primary school net enrollment rate (NER), 2004

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Progress on Global Primary Education Improvement

• Millennium Development Goal: to ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling by 2015.

• Globally, the primary completion rate increased from 78% in 2000 to 83% in 2005.

• The pace of annual improvement in primary school completion has accelerated significantly since 1990 in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and North Africa.

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• Primary education completion rates

Source: UN: The Millennium Development Goals Report 2006

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Benefits of an Educated Society

• Strong relationship between quality of education and individual productivity and income.

• Educated mothers are 50% more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.

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• Education is a key instrument for bringing about change.– Knowledge and values– Behaviors– Lifestyles– Sustainability and stability

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Challenges going forward

• Global teacher shortage

• Lack of proper facilities, textbooks, resources

• Overcapacity

• Poor quality

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How does education affect poverty?

• Raises individual productivity and income• Promotes economic growth• Improves the present and future conditions for

children by teaching them valuable skills and life lessons