Post-2015 Achieving quality for all

1. Post-2015 Achieving quality for all Catherine Jere Launch of GMR 2013/4 Stockholm, February 5th 2014

2. New evidence that Education transforms lives • Education empowers women • Education promotes tolerance • Education equality improves job opportunities and economic growth • Education saves mothers’ lives. • Education improves child nutrition & saves children’s lives • Education improves knowledge and attitudes to environmental sustainability

3. Monitoring global education targets after 2015 A consensus is emerging over post-2015 education aims: • Address unfinished business on primary school completion; • Extend goals to universal access to early childhood care and education, and lower secondary school completion; • Ensure that children are both in school and also learning • Make sure all young people and adults have the skills needed for the world of work.

4. Failing to reach the marginalized in sub-Saharan Africa

5. Achieving universal primary school completion by 2030 Progress needed for post-2015 goal Business as usual 100 2086 Rich urban boys 80 60 40 Poor rural girls Primary school completers (%) 20 0 2005 2010 2105 2015 2020 2040 2050 2025 2030 2060 2080 2035 2055 2075 2110 2000 2045 2100 2070 2065 2085 2090 2095

6. Achieving learning for all by 2030 Selected countries in southern and eastern Africa Progress needed for post-2015 goal 100 All children assessed 80 All children assessed 60 Business as usual All school age children 50% 40 20 Learned the basics in reading (%) All school age children 0 2000 2007 2015 2020 2025 2030 2000 2007 2015 2020 2025 2030 Poor rural girls Rich urban boys

7. Need to track lowest performing group India2011, Learned basics in Reading, Primary www.education-inequalities.org

8. Lessons for post-2015 • Need goals for equitable access AND learning with targets that are: • clearly defined • measurable – including equity in targets • based on data that can be collected within timeframe. • that hold international community to account for their commitments

9. Five individual goals: Equity, measurability and finance 1. Completion of early childhood education, primary education and lower secondary education 2. Quality of early childhood care and education, primary education and lower secondary education 3. Acquisition of youth and adult skills 4. Elimination of inequalities 5. Financing of education Equity

10. Targets must be set so no one is left behind due to lack of resources After 2015, financing targets should be set for countries to allocate: • at least 6% of GNP on education; only 41 had reached this level by 2011 • at least 20% of their budget on education; only 25 had reached this level by 2011 Financing targets should also apply to aid donors so that all funders are held to account for their promises.

11. Better data for monitoring education goals post-2015 • Inequality: Track progress: • of the most disadvantaged • of the gap between the most disadvantaged and the most advantaged • Learning: Comparable data on number of children not learning – and updated regularly • Better measurement: Gaps to be addressed: • Early childhood care and education programmes • Skills domains for young people and adults • Disability

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