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Governments make record-setting pledges of $26 billion to fund education
un article par Education International (abridged)
Expectations were blown out of the water today in Brussels as
historic financial commitments were made toward funding
education in the world’s poorest countries that will help provide a
quality education for millions of children. 
Julia Gillard, Board Chair of the Global Partnership for Education, addresses a plenary session in Brussels, Belgium
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At what could have been viewed as a melting pot of the education
policy world, politics, civil society, and international organisations
came together in the heart of Belgium June 25th and 26th for the
second Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Replenishment
Conference in hopes of hitting what now seems like a very modest
US $3.5 billion post-2015 funding goal.
“This exceptional result is a vote of confidence in the power of
education to lift the lives of millions of children, and is a tribute to
far-sighted leadership in our partner countries - donors and
developing country partners alike,” said Julia Gillard, GPE Board
Chair and former Australian prime minister. “No other organization
has a partnership structure that has leveraged such substantial
funds from developing countries.”
A vast majority of the record-high dollar amount came from 27
developing countries’ promise to increase spending on education by
$26 billion over the next three years, a 25 percent jump from
current levels. Another $2.1 billion came from the likes of European
Union, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
Education International gives teachers a starring role
“Teachers are absolutely the key to quality education,” was the
message Education International (EI) General Secretary Fred van
Leeuwen made loud and clear, erasing any doubts about the
importance of teachers in creating quality education as Education
International (EI) also made its pledge to the GPE.
In his pledge for EI, van Leeuwen made an annual commitment of 2
million euros from 2015 to 2018 to assist education unions
worldwide, with a special emphasis on those in the GPE countries in
order to:
· Establish social and professional dialogues with their public
authorities;
· Raise professional standards and put a stop to de-
professionalization trends;
· Target the barriers to access, such as child labour, child
marriage, school fees, and the professional teacher shortage;
· Establish partnerships with civil society, international
organisations, and the private sector to support the EFA targets, but
expose those creating new barriers or feeding de-
professionalization.
In addition, Education International also pledged to:
· Improve gender equality in education, including the
achievement of gender parity in primary and lower secondary
school;
· Improve learning outcomes, including increasing grade 3
literacy rates;
· Strengthen support for education development in fragile
states, and in jurisdictions lagging behind in reaching the EFA
targets;
· And as a member of the Emergency Coalition for Global
Education Action, provide additional support to teachers and their
organisations in Haiti, Lebanon, Pakistan and Nigeria.
(Thank you to Janet Hudgins, the CPNN reporter for this article.)
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What is the relation between peace and education?,
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Letter from Mohatma Gandhi to Maria Montessori.
To Madame Montessori
Even as you, out of your love for children, are endeavoring to teach children, through your numerous institution, the best that can be brought out of them, even so, I hope that it will be possible not only for the children of the wealthy and the well-to-do, but for the children of paupers to receive training of this nature. You have very truly remarked that if we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have the struggle, we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.
Mohatma Gandhi, Young India, 19-11-''31
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