A Liberian student holds a trophy the school won in a government-sponsored spelling bee.
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
As the World Bank pledges new funding for basic education, a coalition says African nations lack the political will to provide access to primary education to all children.-
Liberia: Lawmaker Blasts Teachers, Professors for Country's Mass Academic Failures
Informer, 23 September 2010
Nimba County Representative Martin Fangalo has squarely blamed teachers and professors as well as the government for the plunge and level of mass failures in the country's academic… Read more »
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Africa: Mixed Response to World Bank Education Package
allAfrica, 22 September 2010
At the opening of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit on Monday, mixed reactions greeted the World Bank's announcement of an additional U.S.$750 million… Read more »
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Africa: More Commitment to Education Needed
IPS, 21 September 2010
African nations lack the political will to provide access to primary education to all children, according to the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a coalition of organisations… Read more »
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Benin: Nation On Track to Achieve Universal Primary Education
UNDP, 22 September 2010
Ten years since the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Benin is today on track to ensure primary education for all by 2015, provided current efforts are… Read more »
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Ethiopia: Govt Makes Good Progress on Education Goals
allAfrica, 16 September 2010
Access to education in Ethiopia has improved considerably, with primary school enrolment increasing more than 500 percent between 1994 and 2009, a new Overseas… Read more »
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Africa: Sexual Abuse Preventing Progress On Education Targets
Gender Links, 21 September 2010
After she became a mother just before her 15th birthday, Diana Ricardo* was forced to drop out of school and give up her dreams of a brighter future. Read more »
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Kenya: Country's Push for Free Schooling Faces Tough Challenge
Business Daily, 22 September 2010
As President Kibaki sat through the ongoing Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Summit in New York on Monday, he must have cheered as Kenya got special mention for its push towards… Read more »
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Africa: Report Highlights Development Success Stories
UNIRIN, 16 September 2010
Many sub-Saharan African countries are off-track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, but there have been pockets of success: Ghana is set to become the first country in… Read more »
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Somalia: New Report Reveals the Worst Place in the World to be a School Child
Global Campaign for Education, 20 September 2010
Somalia and Haiti have topped a list of the world’s worst places to be a school child as a new report from the Global Campaign for Education, backed by organisations… Read more »
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Africa: 1GOAL takes fight for Education For All to New York
Global Campaign for Education, 20 September 2010
The Global Campaign for Education’s youngest 1GOAL ambassador 12-year-old Nthabiseng Tshabalala has travelled from Soweto to New York this week to ask world leaders to commit… Read more »
