Education ensuring universal primary, expanded secondary and higher education

The Trouble with Universal Education

Achievement of universal primary education

Goal 2 Achieve Universal Primary Education

Achieving universal primary education (MDG 2)

We are close to achieving universal primary education.

To pursue universal elementary education on a priority basis, Sarva Shiksha Abhiya, India's universal elementary education scheme, was launched in 1998, covering the entire country.

Supporting universal HIV AIDS education, taking gender inequalities into account

Increasing access, participation and completion of universal primary education in Eritrea

Goal 2 of the Millennium Development Goals Achieve universal primary education

C. Focus on Millennium Development Goal 2 achievement of universal primary education

Special communiqué in support of literacy projects to achieve universal primary education

Special communiqué in support of literacy projects to achieve universal primary education

Achieving universal access to primary education underpinned the success of the Goals.

There was a special emphasis on girls in the universal elementary education scheme.

The UNESCO Nairobi strategy is aimed at accelerating the attainment of Education for All goals by accelerating progress towards universal primary education.

To this end, achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 2, universal primary education, is a must.

Our achievements in the area of universal primary education are a testimony to that resolve.

Universal free elementary education for all children and literacy programmes for adults of all ages.

The education related Millennium Development Goals challenge countries to achieve universal primary education (Goal 2) and to promote gender equality and empower women (Goal 3).

The UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality, Toward Universal Primary Education Investments, Incentives, and Institutions (NY UN Millennium Project, 2005), 77.

For instance, the achievement of targets relating to universal primary education remains on track in all regions.

Managing to halve poverty and provide universal access to primary education by 2015 was a daunting challenge.

Education was a critical tool and leaders of the region were striving to provide universal access to all levels of education and to upgrade educational standards.

Furthermore, in the context of the national administration of public education, efforts had been made to promote universal primary education from the age of four years.

Convinced that empowering youth through education will enable them to have equal access to participation in the national development agenda, Malawi implemented universal free primary education under the national Education for All programme.

On education, a speaker expressed support for UNICEF efforts to improve the quality of education and suggested further cooperation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in achieving universal primary education.

We also agree with the Secretary General that we should not focus only on providing universal education, but that more emphasis should be placed on quality education.

The discrepancy is delaying the achievement of universal primary education, while the attempt to increase the number of children in schools is compromising the quality of education.

Among the fundamental principles of the State education policy are the compulsory nature of general basic education, the universal accessibility of general secondary education and beginning occupational training, and the receipt of subsequent levels of education on a competitive basis.

For instance, article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights4 states that (e)veryone has the right to education and that (e)lementary education shall be compulsory .

There is a need to make further efforts to ensure progress in the realization of the education related Millennium Development Goals, namely universal primary education and the elimination of gender disparity in primary and secondary education.

10. Recognizes the lack of adequate resources in many developing countries to expand access to and improve the quality of education, and, in particular, to provide free universal primary education

If the current annual growth rate of 0.5 per cent is maintained, we will achieve universal primary education by 2015.

These eight goals range from eradicating extreme poverty, providing universal primary education, and reducing health threats, to ensuring environmental sustainability.

Spending on training and education amounted to 15 per cent of the State budget in 2000 and 17.4 per cent in 2004, while spending on making primary and secondary education universal totalled 52.6 per cent of all education spending.

Recognizing that education was a key element in the promotion of children's rights, the Government had introduced a universal basic education programme which provided for compulsory and free education for all school age children up to junior secondary level.

The problem is that the international community s credibility in promising universal education has been compromised it has pledged to achieve this goal in at least 12 UN sponsored declarations since 1950. For example, UNESCO promised in 1961 that, by 1980, primary education in Africa would be universal, compulsory, and free.

For example, the pursuit of universal primary education in Sub Saharan Africa would yield a lower, but still significant, 7 of social and economic benefit for every dollar spent. And efforts to achieve universal primary education worldwide would cost far more, with each dollar spent bringing just 4 worth of benefits.

Haiti has never had universal and free education, a fundamental factor for peacebuilding, for reconciliation and for long term sustainable development.

Ensuring universal education for girls is crucial to providing opportunity and promoting gender equality in both the present and the future.

As our 2005 country report would show, the Maldives has already achieved the Goals of halving poverty and achieving universal primary education.

The campaign against child exploitation and for education has become global. The organization A World at School is now circulating the biggest ever petition in support of the Millennium Development Goal of universal education.

A key element would be universal free university education, modeled on European systems. Paying for this educational reform would require higher tax rates.

Conversely, high fertility and rapid population growth have hindered the achievement of universal primary education in many developing countries, especially the least developed.