Time to Get Serious about Education for All, with Progress at a Standstill

Submitted by a.otchet on February 27, 2018 - 11:34am

The latest figures on out-of-school-children are sobering, to say the least. According to new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), progress remains at a standstill. We still have about 263 million – or one out of five – children, adolescents and youth worldwide out of school and this number has barely changed over the past five years.

Proportion of schools with access to: electricity; Internet; computers; adapted infrastructure and materials for students with disabilities; basic drinking water; single-sex basic sanitation facilities; and basic handwashing facilities in Africa

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