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1 Education in the Millenium Development Goals: an impossible dream? Isa Baud Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies University of Amsterdam What are the specific targets? 8 MDGs, 2 related to education Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education - Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary education Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women - Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

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"Education in the Millennium Development Goals: an impossible dream?"Isa BaudDiscussion of the two Millennium Developmental Goals related to Education and Education for all in a global context. Presented at 2nd UNAWE International Workshop.(Date: October 2006)

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Education in the Millenium

Development Goals: an

impossible dream?Isa Baud

Department of Geography, Planningand International Development Studies

University of Amsterdam

What are the specific targets?

• 8 MDGs, 2 related to education

• Goal 2:

Achieve universal primary education

- Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primaryeducation

• Goal 3:

Promote gender equality and empower women

- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary educationpreferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015

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Complementary to MDGs, 6 EFA targets

1. Expanding and improving early childhood care and education,especially for the most vulnerable;

2. Ensuring that by 2015 all children have access to a compulsory freeeducation of good quality;

3. Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults aremet through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skillsprogram;

4. Achieving 50% improvement in adult literacy levels by 2015;

5. Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education;

6. Improving all aspects of quality of education

Regional differences in enrollment

Data source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). 2005.

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• Enrollment

Key facts…• Enrollment in primary cycle increased but:

- 100 million children still not enrolled in primaryeducation

- Many drop out before completion

- Existing rural-urban education gap

- Gender differences

- Only 5% disabled children completed primaryschooling

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What are the issues –?

• Quantity versus quality

• Access to post-primary education

• Gap between education skills and local labormarkets

• Local education governance

• Funding

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UvA IS-Academe program

on quality of education

• Linking research and policy at different levels:

- Ministry, Dutch embassies, partnership IIEP/UvA/Minbuza

- through internships and policy recommendations

* Teaching:

Integrate education issues in BA and MA programmes

* Research:

Several research themes

Foster academic exchanges with leading academics

Favor interdisciplinary approach

Issues for research

• Multiple, contextualised meanings of quality of

education

• Processes of learning and teaching

• Inclusion of the most marginalized groups in

education

• Decentralization, privatization, processes of re-

centralisation

• Policy negotiation and advocacy

• Opportunities of change -

Improving education in war-affected areas

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Links to UNAWE?

• Addresses quality of education by spurringinterest in new subjects

Beauty and Scale of the Universe

• Uses non-traditional methods of promotingsuch interests

• Bottom-up approach

• Addresses marginalized children

• South-south and north-south learningpatterns

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