International Contacts

I found many interesting things looking through the UNESCO's "Early Childhood Care and Education" website. The first article I looked at was about "Everyone Has the Right to Education". This is so true. It talked about how everyone does have the right to edcuation from the time they are born. It talked about the adoption of the Education for All and Millennium Development Goals in 2000 and how much progress has been made in our education system worldwide. This website shared information on the efforts to make quality education a reality for all. Global Action Week shared some useful information to raise the awareness of the importance for educaiton to everyone as it focuses on six education goals and there are: Six internationally agreed education goals aim to meet the learning needs of all children, youth and adults by 2015. Goal 1 Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children Goal 2 Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to, and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality. Goal 3 Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programmes Goal 4 Achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults. Goal 5 Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality. Goal 6 Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills(http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/strengthening-education-systems/inclusive-education). I hope to see all of these goals met in the year of 2015. The last issue I looked out was discussing how in Sub-Saharan Africa has a high rate of out of school children. They have either never been to school or have dropped out. This is so sad because education in important in everything we do in our life. it discusses how much we need a stronger global committee and national policies that put priority on reaching these children and trying to give them an educaiton they deserve. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/resources/online-materials/single-view/news/slowdown_in_access_to_education_in_africa/