Valdis zatlers biography of christopher
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Transforming Education
Global Education is in crisis. Today nearly 300 million children don’t go to school, more than 80% of whom are found in low-income countries, and 800 million young people will leave school without any qualifications. Recent data shows that global learning poverty in low- and middle-income countries is estimated to have risen to 70%, with more than half of the world’s children unable to read or write a simple text at the age of 10 and no accredited skills for the workplace when they leave school. Coupled with the ‘violation’ of children’s right to education evidenced by these high levels of learning poverty, the latter is bound to have a devastating impact on future productivity, earnings, and well-being for this generation of children and youth, their families, and the world’s economy.
This failure to deliver an inclusive and equitable, academic, and vocational quality education to all puts us at grave risk of not achieving the laudable aims of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 and of the many other SDGs dependent or reliant on it. It also means we are only providing for half of our future.
Education budgets in low- and lower-middle-income countries will have to more than double to $3 trillion by 2030 if we are to achieve SDG 4 and univ
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