Education: The Priority In The Post 2015 Development Agendaby | 21-01-2014 15:53 |
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![]() As we know, the United Nations initiated and formed the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, helping on building on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as their 2015 end date approaches. Another goal of the panel is to bring together a broad range of stakeholders to review progress on the MDGs and to discuss the options for a post-2015 development framework. After initiating the panel, the dialogue of development has been drafted, including 11 global thematic consultations:
1. Addressing Inequalities 2. Conflict, Violence and Disaster 3. Education 4. Energy 6. Governance 7. Growth and Employment 8. Health 9. Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition 10. Population Dynamics 11. Water
From the above, we know that Education is involved because of giving the obvious benefits for better society. According to the survey of The My World Global, The majority of participants from 194 countries of more than 850,000 participants – 584,329 people – chose a good education as the top priority for the post-2015 agenda. It included 77 per cent of participants were from low- and medium-income countries and 64 per cent of participants were under age 30.
To response the above, some agencies of the United Nations established The Global Thematic Consultation on Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The consultation is co-led by UNICEF and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with support from the Governments of Canada, Germany and Senegal. The objective of the consultation is to progress and assist the program of the education-related MDGs and Education for All (EFA).
The consultations noted that there has been significant progress from 2000, including more than 50 million additional children enrolled in primary school. However, there are many shortcomings of achieving education goals - related millennium development goals and education for all which must be addressed. For instance: a narrow vision of education access lack of a focus on quality gender equality is not yet a reality inequality remains the biggest challenge and underinvestment in education are the shortcomings needed to be suggested through improvements from the consultations.
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