Education is a basic human right. Yet across the world there are vast disparities in education based on wealth, gender, location, language and other markers for disadvantage. These disparities threaten to undermine efforts to achieve the six Education for All (EFA) goals agreed by over 160 governments in 2000. Failure to place strategies for greater equity at the centre of the EFA agenda will deny millions of children, youth and adults the education and learning opportunities they need to realize their potential, escape poverty and participate fully in society.This is the seventh edition of the EFA Global Monitoring Report. It documents progress towards the EFA goals. Focusing on those being left behind, the Report explores current approaches to education governance reform and assesses whether these are helping to improve access, quality, participation and accountability. It also examines aid governance. Rich countries have pledged that no national education strategy will be allowed to fail for want of finance. Yet this promise is not being honoured.
The Report includes statistical indicators on all levels of education in some 200 countries and territories, and serves as an authoritative reference guide.
Also available in the Education on the Move series
Also recommended:
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2012 Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2011 The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2010 Reaching the marginalized
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2008 Education for All by 2015 - Will we make it?
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2005 The Quality Imperative
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2003/4 Gender and Education for All: the Leap to Equality
Education for All Global Monitoring Report - 2002 Education for All - Is the World on Track?