The implementation of Education For All [EFA] goals
This issue focuses on the factors that impede the implementation of Education For All [EFA] goals. Five years after the Dakar Forum, 35 countries, 22 of them in sub-Saharan Africa, are very far from achieving the four Education for All [EFA] goals, namely universal primary education, adult literacy, gender parity and education quality. This is according to UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report: The quality Imperative [2005].
17 January 2005
Our journey begins in Nigeria where Toye Olori reports that the survival of the Universal Basic Education [UBE] is being threatened by inadequate funding, poor infrastructure and lack of qualified teachers.
Education standards in Zambia has been dwindling over the years, thanks to the government’s failure to employ 9000 qualified teachers. As Singy Hanyona reports, the situation is bound to get out of hand unless urgent measures are taken.
The devastating effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, coupled with poor infrastructure and lack of trained teachers is hampering the achievement of quality education in Malawi, writes Raphael Mweninguwe.