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Unit 4 Macro: Development Goals - Primary Education
8th September 2012
Goal 2 of the Millennium Development Goals is to achieve universal primary educationTarget: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. More than half of all out-of-school children are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Progress has been made in lifting school enrolment rates for primary and secondary education although the pace of improvement has slowed in recent years. In developing regions, the enrolment rate for children of primary school age rose from 82 to 90 per cent between 1999 and 2010.
There was a steep rise
for Sub-Saharan Africa with enrolment rates jumping from 58% to 78% despite a rise
in the size of the primary school age population. 70% of pupils completed their
primary education but more progress is needed to address the percentage of
girls who are out of school – this links to the MDG goal which focuses on
gender opportunities.
Only six African countries recorded primary completion rates of 90 percent and above in 2009
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.