The Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2011 was released by UNESCO on 1 March 2011. This year’s edition of this annual report has the title The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education. The report documents the impact of violent conflict on education and the long-lasting negative effects on educational attainment and literacy. Today, 28 million or over 40 percent of all children out of school (67 million worldwide) live in countries affected by conflict, although these countries are home to only 116 million or 18 percent of the global population of primary school age (653 million) (see Figure 1). [...]
Education for All regions
by adminFor monitoring of progress towards the six Education for All (EFA) goals, the world has been divided into eight EFA regions: North America and Western Europe Central and Eastern Europe Central Asia East Asia and the Pacific South and West Asia Arab States Sub-Saharan Africa Latin America and the Caribbean These regions, shown in the map below, are used in publications like the EFA Global Monitoring Report by UNESCO or the Global Education Digest by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Regions for monitoring of Education for All goals Combined, the eight EFA regions cover 204 countries and territories. Two EFA [...]
Education finance in sub-Saharan Africa
by adminA new report by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Financing education in sub-Saharan Africa, presents comprehensive data for the past decade for 45 African countries. The number of children enrolled in primary school in sub-Saharan Africa grew from 87 million in 2000 to 129 million in 2008, an increase of 48 percent. Over the 1999-2009 decade, real public expenditure on education, adjusted for inflation, grew on average by 6.1 percent per year, based on data from 26 countries. The highest annual growth rates of education spending in sub-Saharan Africa, over 12 percent, were observed in Mozambique and Burundi. Of the [...]
