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ACHIEVEMENTS:
- Progress made within goal two is the most significant among all goals. In developing world as a whole, enrolment in primary education reached 88 per cent in 2007, up from 83 per cent in 2000.
- Major breakthroughs have been achieved in sub-Saharan Africa, where enrolment increased by 15 percentage points from 2000 to 2007, and Southern Asia, which gained 11 percentage points over the same period. In many countries, improvements in school enrolment have been associated with increases in national spending on education, which could be dealt a serious blow as a result of the global economic crisis.
Source: UN MDG Report 2009.
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CHALLANGES:
- Still, more than 10 per cent of children of primary-school age are out of school.
- Global numbers of out-of-school children are dropping too slowly and too unevenly for the target to be reached by 2015.
- The global economic crises has deeply effected budgets of all developing countries. As a result public education funding is likely to drop.
- Despite the fact that overall aid has been on increase, commitments are falling short on of the 50 billion USD increase pledge in 2005. For sub-Saharan Africa, where the situation is the most dramatic, that means a loss of around 4.6 billion USD for financing education in 2010.
- To meet the universal primary education targets, around 1,9 million new teaching position will need to be created by 2015. Again, sub-Saharan region faces the biggest teacher gap. In 27 out of 45 countries of the region situation is critical. To fill the gap there the number must grow from 2,6 million in 2007 to 3.6 million in 2015.
- If no major actions are taken, it is estimated that there will be still 56 million children without access to primary education in 2015.
Source: EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009
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