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Global Literacy Targets Already Off Track - Unesco
BBC News: 7.09.2019 by Sean
Coughlan
Promises
by world leaders to raise global education standards by 2030 are unlikely to be
kept, warns the United
Nations' education agency.
Unesco
says on current trends, 30% of adults and 20% of young people will still be
illiterate in poor countries.
There
are 262 million young people without access to school, with the worst problems
in sub-Saharan Africa.
The
UN agency warns that the numbers missing out on education are unlikely to fall
much in the next decade.
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The
report examines progress towards global targets, the "sustainable
development goals", which in 2015
the international community committed to achieve by 2030.
Progress
stalled
These
included promises on education - but after four years, the projections from
Unesco show, they are already off track and unlikely to be achieved without a
significant change of direction.
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Lack
of teachers
There
are inequalities of access - such as barriers to girls and rural families
getting an education.
But
the biggest gap is related to poverty - with only 4% of youngsters in
low-income families staying on to the end of secondary school.
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Damaged
in war
Unesco
also highlights the differences in outcomes between developing countries.
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Broken
promises
This
is the latest in a series of missed education targets after high-profile
international pledges - despite education being seen as important for improving
health and prosperity in poorer countries and preventing extremism.
Promises
made in 1990 to ensure access to primary education were not achieved by the
deadline of 2000. READ MORE >>
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