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What does achievement of worldwide education refers to?

To achieve worldwide education refers to include basic and secondary education in all countries and all its habitants. Millions of children; for instance in Africa,  struggle to receive proper education. With the lack of schools, teachers, and proper tools it is impossible for them to achieve success.

 

 How worldwide education does improve quality of life?

The world needs education as it is the basis of a civilized and cultured society. It helps to the advancement of all fields, including science and technology. Education empowers the mind to achieve its full potential which consequently contributes to have a better quality of life.

 

 Quality of Education on Developing Countries

Education is essential to economic development, especially for poor people in developing countries. Citizens who can read, calculate, and think critically have better economic opportunities, higher agricultural productivity, healthier children, and better reproductive health and rights. Fundamental educational skills form the basis for all future learning, but today too many students across the developing world are missing out.

 

 Geographical Focus on countries that need the urgent develop on education

The countries that need the most to develop its education are currently in India and in Africa. These countries are Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. QEDC (Queens Development Corporation) supports global advocacy and in-country efforts to improve children’s learning in these countries.

 

 Education in Africa

Africa is a major priority to receive education as said by UNESCO to help in the region´s development. Angola is making a big push to accelerate progress towards education for all by 2015.

UNESCO is supporting the National Forum and Angola’s acceleration efforts in four areas:

·      Assistance in mobilizing different private and public partners

·      Tailor socio-educational interventions to meet the challenges of accelerating Education for All

·      Provide technical support in areas of low educational performance

·      Adjust the National Education for All efforts in Angola so it fits the acceleration mechanism established by UNESCO

 

 Education in India

In India today, 4% of the children never start school. 58% don’t complete primary education. And 90% don’t complete school. The fact is that only 10% of our children go to college and get a degree. This immediately shows us that India has a serious problem when it comes to education. The end of educational inequity is the freedom for all children to have the opportunity to reach their potential.

 

 Individual Perspectives

Africa: The UNESCO Education for All Coordination in Africa, with support of the Government of Angola, had the Second Regional Education for All (EFA) Acceleration Meeting at the Victoria Garden Hotel in Luanda, Angola from 18 to 22 October 2013. The meeting is part of the Big Push initiative launched in March 2013 to accelerate progress towards Education for All (EFA) in Africa. Currently 32 out of the 45 countries are very unlikely to achieve the six Educations for All goals while 12 countries stand a good chance to attain them if progress is accelerated.

·      Goal 1 
Expanding and improving comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children.

·      Goal 2
Ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstances and those belonging to ethnic minorities, have access to, and complete, free and compulsory primary education of good quality.

·      Goal 3 
Ensuring that the learning needs of all young people and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and life-skills programmes.

·      Goal 4 
Achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing education for all adults.

·      Goal 5 
Eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achieving gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality.

·      Goal 6 
Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that recognized and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.

 

India:  

India is still lagging behind in providing basic education to its children.A recent study by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has placed India fourth from the bottom in terms of the number of children out-of-school.However, on a positive note, the study also says that India has made good progress in getting children into classrooms.The political will to provide wider access to education, in the form of the Right to Education Act, has helped reduce the number of out-of-school children from 20 million in 2000, to 2.3 million in 2006 and 1.67 million in 2010-11.This has helped push the country up by one position to fourth from bottom, with Ethiopia (1.7 million out-of-school children) taking its earlier place. Nigeria, with 10.54 million out-of-school children is at the very bottom of the list, while Pakistan comes second-last with 5.43 million. However, with about 57 million children being out of school globally in 2011, the world is far from achieving the target of ensuring that all children get proper schooling by 2015 – one of the millennial development goals of the UN.

 

 Session Approach

The committee´s objective is to create an effective strategy to achieve worldwide education especially on developing countries. However, this committee urges all delegates to:

• Consider  their countries topics perspective toward this issue

• Debate in order to find the best solution to achieve worldwide education

• Propose solutions in order to resolve education issues; especially on developing countries.

 Bibliography

http://www.the-ibenefits.com/benefits-of-education.html

 http://www.queensny.org/qedc/

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/dakar/about-this-office/single-view/news/angola_launches_big_push_on_education_for_all/#.Ul2zDdJWySp

 http://www.teachforindia.org/about-us/india-education-crisis

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/dakar/about-thisoffice/singleview/news/20_african_countries_gather_to_accelerate_the_education_for_all_through_the_big_push_initiative/#.Ul27