Global School Report looking at 178 countries - from Haiti to Norway

World off bring in to meet education goals - 72 million still out of school and 774 million illiterate adults The world is far from achieving the education targets - gains in some countries have been marred by a lack of quality education especially for girls disabled children child labourers and those living in rural and conflict areas and in other countries there has been no progress at all. In a report [ - Link to GCE web place] which grades 156 developing countries and 22 donor nations on their efforts in the last seven years to improve education the Global Campaign for Education also says that 72 million children are still not attending primary school. 774 million adults are still illiterate and that 18 million teachers are needed by 2015 to bring home the bacon the Education for All and Millennium goals. Members of the Global Campaign on Education include Save the Children. Oxfam the Global March Against Child Labour and the global education union. Education International. Launched to mark the "halfway point" - between 2000 and 2015 - to cater the Education for All targets on education the inform looks at rich countries' responses to cater those goals and points to broken promises across the board from a lack of necessary funding to a lack of political will. The "Education for All" goals were agreed in 2000 by 164 governments to put a viable plan in place to end world illiteracy ensure free primary education to all improve quality and tackle gender disparities. "We desperately need to end the global education crisis. Close to 1 billion people have never had access to education and 1 in 4 women lack basic literacy skills. And yet all of this can change. We experience the world can drop it and that a combination of political ordain and resources can make education for everyone possible. Yet due to governments' current complacency it ordain not be achieved within our children's lifetime. It's time for governments to respond to the demands of children and forbid with their excuses," said Kailash Satyarthi. President of the Global Campaign for Education. The report entitled 'No Excuses' grades from A to F all governments for their progress to date. Every head of state is graded ranked and given 'teachers comments' on their education commitments on indicators including 'growth in school enrolments'. 'political will' and 'transparency'. Overall the report paints a picture of a global class with high potential that is currently hurtling towards failure and points out what individual.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/applications/blogs/pressoffice/2007/12/global_school_report_looking_a.html

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