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AUGUST 2007
Halfway through the calendar for meeting the Education for All goals we are taking this opportunity to do a Mid-Term Review of the Global Campaign for Education. You’re input has been crucial to this campaign to date, and now it’s as invaluable as ever.
Please take the time and tell us what you think, what works well and what the campaign could do better. This questionnaire is your chance to have your say and feed into the future planning of GCE.
We’d really like to hear from as many people as possible. Please take a few moments and fill in the questionnaire, which you can download here and return it by 15th Sept to review@firetail.co.uk or fax +27 11 447 4138. We’ll be circulating the review findings later in the year, and this will also feed into GCE’s World Assembly in January.
Until then, enjoy the newsletter, and please keep sending your updates to the editor Alex Kent alex@campaignforeducation.org
Owain James,
Global Coordinator
Global Campaign for Education
CONTENTS
| POLICY NEWS |
- Tanzania raises education standards
- Sri Lanka President affirms education rights
- Jordan schools open to Iraqis
- New Book: Inexcusable Absence
| CAMPAIGN NEWS |
- Education International’s World Congress
- Asia Literacy Conference
- Pakistan Workshop on Education
- Latin America Conference on Education
- Online EFA Resource
- Keep Promises on Education Petition
| GCE NEWS |
| POLICY NEWS |
Tanzania: Plans to raise education standards  |
HakiElimu, Tanzania’s education coalition, welcomes the governments’ recent announcements to allocate 18% of the annual budget to education, and employ 14,490 primary and secondary school teachers. Tanzania’s primary school enrolment rates have almost doubled and secondary school enrolment rates have more than doubled since 2001, putting strain on school teachers and school buildings. Read the full IRIN article here |
Sri Lanka: President affirmed commitment to education rights |
President Mahinda Rajapaksa affirmed his commitment to provide equal educational rights and opportunities to all, without prejudice. He has allocated Rs 70 million to education in the last budget. Read the full article in Sri Lanka’s Daily News here |
Jordan: Schools opened to Iraqis |
8th August: The Jordanian government has announced that all Iraqi children living in the country will be able to go to government schools for the first time. There are around three-quarters of a million Iraqi refugees in Jordan, few of these have been able to receive a formal education. As a result 50,000 Iraqis are expected to enroll in school by the start of the next school year. Read the full BBC article here |
New Book: Inexcusable Absence |
Inexcusable Absence: Why 60 Million Girls Still Aren't In School and What to do About It, was recently published by the Center for Global Development. The book highlights the often vast differences between girls from minority and majority groups in enrolling in and completing school. Download or buy the book here |
| CAMPAIGN NEWS |
World Congress of Education International in Berlin |
22nd – 26th July: GCE were among the 1,500 in attendance at Education International’s World Congress in Berlin, themed: “Educators joining together for quality education and social justice”. GCE stocked a colourful exhibition, attended sessions and united in the delegates concern to fight for education as a human right. “We came together united by our shared concern for children and for the future of democratic quality public education as a fundamental right for all,” said EI President Thulas Nxesi. |
Asia Illiteracy Conference |
1st August: At the close of the UNESCO illiteracy conference for East Asia, South-East Asia and Pacific, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura appealed for increasing international support to end illiteracy.
Compared to the global literacy rate of 80%, this regions’ rate is higher at 91.7%. However the gender inequalities are huge, with women accounting for 70% of those who are illiterate. The Beijing conference was the second in a series of regional conferences organized by UNESCO to promote global literacy. Further conferences are being hosted by UNESCO in Africa (Bamako 10-12th Sept), South, South-West and Central Asia (Dehli 29th – 30th Nov), L. America and Caribbean (San Jose, 13-14th May 08) and the closing meeting (Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept 08). Find out more here. |
Pakistan: Civil Society Workshop on the state of education
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2nd August: PCE and SPO organized a round table discussion on the "The Abysmal state of Education and the Current Situation of the Country”. The meeting explored the innate link between the weakening of social order, rise in religious militancy, growing gap between the very rich and very poor and lack of an adequate education system. As a result they called for a redesign and re-structuring of the Madrassa curriculum. The government was criticized for neglecting the education sector allocating only 2.6% of the total budget for education, of which only 20% was actually spent last year. The meeting was covered in Pakistan’s DAWN Metropolitan and the Nation City. |
XVII Latin-American Conference on Education |
Ministries of Education in Latin America, Spain and Portugal participated in a conference on ‘Social 'Cohesion and Inclusive Education Policies’. The Latin-American Campaign for the Right to Education prepared a statement and proposed the Ministers pay special attention to educational policies and programs which seek to meet the goal of Education For All. The statement was submitted to all the ministers and vice-ministers present. The result of the debate was: we educate to attain social justice and solidarity, promote civic values and widespread dissemination of democratic values. As stated by Guido Flamey, (Chilean Forum on Quality Education for All). Read more about the conference here |
Free Online EFA resource |
A new tool has been developed that allows educators to create interactive multimedia literacy and language courses in any language. The tool has been designed to help the world reach the EFA goals. The project seeks support of NGOs working in illiteracy. Find out more and download the resources in French and Spanish at http://FreeEducationCenter.com . |
Petition to Keep Promises on Education |
Keep Your Promises to the World's Children is the name of a petition set up by the Global March Against Child Labour. As 2007 marks the midway to the international community’s commitments for creating a better world for its citizens. The petition is aimed at politicians to remind them of the mid-way point and to take action now in order to get all children out of labour and into school. Sign the petition here. |
| GCE NEWS |
| GCE’s Mid-Term Review |
The Global Campaign for Education was created in 1999 to campaign for Education for All. At it’s conception it was agreed to run until at least 2015, and that a review would take place half way through it’s mandate in 2007. A questionnaire has been designed for coalitions, organizations and individuals to input directly into this review.
GCE has employed to two independent consultants to lead this process and analyse the questionnaire responses. Please download the questionnaire here, and return it by the 15th September. You can either email it to review@firetail.co.uk or fax it back to +27 11 447 4138. |
Real World Strategies |
The Real World Strategies project has introduced the election/budget pilot project in Kenya and Malawi. National consultation workshops were convened in Nairobi and Lilongwe at the end of July, to agree national plans of action. In Kenya, the education coalition, Elimu Yetu are asking the election candidates and parties to make education a political priority in their December campaign. In Malawi, the coalition CSCQBE, are appealing to President Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika’s government to make education a national priority in the next financial year. In both countries leading politicians are being asked to sign up to an Education for All Manifesto and show their public support. |
| World Assembly & Membership |
STOP PRESS: Registration Deadline Extension. To allow national coalitions further time for internal consultations– the registration deadline for the GCE World Assembly has been postponed to 30th September. Please make sure you have sent in your registration form by that date, or you may not be eligible to receive support with travel and accommodation costs. The Global Campaign for Education's World Assembly is taking place in 21st – 24th January 2008, in Sao Paulo. All GCE members are welcome and encouraged to send a delegate and if they wish further observers. It is your chance to directly determine the policies of the global campaign as well as get involved in how GCE is co-ordinated including standing for election to the GCE Board. For coalitions that need it, GCE will fully cover the cost of one delegate to attend the conference; only members who have paid their membership fees are eligible. We're also please to announce regional pre-meetings will be taking place. Dates for three regions are already confirmed: Latin America Meeting: 27th – 29th November, Buenos Aires Asia Meeting: 3-5th December (to be confirmed), Bangkok Africa: 10th – 11th December, Dakar Invites to these will be sent out by the regional coalitions directly. |
The Global Campaign for Education (GCE)is a movement to end the worldwide crisis in education. Thousands of development charities, trade unions and child rights groups make up the national coalitions in over 100 countries. Together we campaign and lobby governments to make sure they act now to deliver the right of every girl, boy, woman and man to a free, quality education.
Regional & International Organisations: ActionAid International, ANCEFA, ASPBAE, CAMFED, CARE, CEAAL, Education International, FAPE, FAWE, Fe y Alegria, Global March Against Child Labour, Ibis, Inclusion International, Latin America GCE Coalition, NetAid, OEB/CEDEAO, Oxfam International, Plan International, Public Services International, REPEM, Save the Children Alliance, SightSavers International, VSO, World Alliance of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, World Vision International
National Civil Society Coalitions: Bangladesh :CAMPE, Brazil:CDE, Burkina Faso:CCEB, Cambodia:NGO Education Partnership, Cameroon:EFA Network, Canada:GCE Alliance, El Salvador:CIAZO, France:Solidarite-Laique, Gabon:SENA, Gambia:GEFA, Germany:GCE, Ghana:GNECC, India:NCE, Indonesia:E-Net for Justice, Ireland:GCE Coalition, Japan:JNNE, Kenya:Elimu Yetu Coalition, Lesotho:LEFA, Liberia: ALPO, Malawi:CSCQBE, Mali:ASSAFE, Mozambique:MEPT, Netherlands:GCE, Nigeria:CSACEFA, Pakistan:EFA Network, Philippines:E-Net, Sierra Leone:EFA Network, South Africa:GCE-SA, Spain:GCE Coalition, Sweden:EFA Forum, Tanzania:TEN/MET, Togo:CNT/CME, Uganda:FENU, UK:GCE-UK, Zambia:ZANEC
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