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| 2006 GCE Media Coverage
Oct 26 - Joy Online - Ghana Coalition trains teams in budget tracking The Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC), is training teams of District Education for All in budget and resource tracking so that members ... Oct 26 - Media for Freedom - Nepal "Failure" to educate world's poor The world's richest countries are failing to provide the funds needed for education in the developing world, the Global Campaign for Education has said. ... October 24 - AND - Uganda Adult education increases use of literacyand numeracy in Uganda ... adults. This year's Global Action Week on Education focused on the plight of teachers or adult literacy facilitators. According ... October 9 - AllAfrica.Com - Ghana Ghana: 'Every Child Needs a Teacher!' ... Global Campaign for Education organizes the event to among other things, highlight the myriads Oct 6 - Seychelles Nation - Seychelles 'Let us strive to promote teaching as a noble career' "As the country celebrates Teachers' Day under the theme "Celebrate Teaching: Every Child Needs a Teacher," once again the profession comes under scrutiny ... Oct 6 - Seychelles Nation - Seychelles Government committed to ensuring professional development of ... Seychelles Nation - Victoria,Seychelles ... "The theme for this year's Teachers' Day – 'Celebrate Teaching: Every Child Needs a Teacher' – invites us all to celebrate the noble profession of ... Sept 22 - Ireland Online Ireland among best countries for meeting aid promises The rankings have been drawn up by the Global Campaign for Education, an international group that lobbies governments to meet their promises to make free basic ... Sept 20 - Accra Daily Mail - Ghana Double Aid for Basic Schools In Poor Countries – Wolfowitz ... He said that for the 20 countries so far endorsed for the Fast Track Initiative – a programme launched in 2002 that gives long-term financial and technical ... Sept 20 - African News Dimension - South Africa Education remains priority in Africa African News Dimension (subscription) - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa ... He said a new initiative has been set up to eradicate illiteracy in developing countries. "The Education for All Fast Track Initiative has encouraged a ... Sept 18 - Independent Online - South Africa Netherlands boosts education drive ... Under a programme called the Fast Track Initiative, developing countries agree to draw up national education plans while donor countries agree to increase aid ... Sept 18 - Brunei Times - Brunei Rich nations tardy on school aid ... In 2002, the World Bank and major donors agreed on a fast track initiative to accelerate progress toward universal free primary education by 2015. ... Sept 18 - African News Dimension - South Africa US, Japan condemned for 'empty promises' to Africa ... In 2002 the world's richest countries established the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI), promising to fund all poor countries with viable ... Sept 18 - Haveeru Daily - Maldives Donors urged to keep their commitments to free primary education ... receive education funding under the FTI but several donors have fallen short of their initial pledges, a report by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) said ... Sept 18 - Peninsula On-line - Qatar Failing grade for global education spending ... "George Bush, you have earned a grade of E in this class which is deeply shocking," said Fry, of the Global Campaign for Education. ... Sept 17 - Channel News Asia - Singapore Civil society organisations discuss environment, poverty and ... ... was instead played out at Suntec Singapore's official indoor ... more than 100 million children are out of school. Its report rated leaders from the world's 22 ...  Sept
17 - Channel News Asia - SingaporeActivists lobby rich countries to help provide free schooling for ... ... children at a protest within Suntec Singapore on Sunday ... promote the launch of a new report by a ... Their so-called "school report" is titled "Underachievers", and ... Sep 9 - Common Dreams - USA Outrage Grows at Failure to Address Global Adult Literacy Crisis ... As Gorgui Sow of the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) commented: "Without an education you are almost certainly destined to live in poverty. ... July 31 - Ghana Broken Promises On the 30th Anniversary of the Day of the ... ... As a first step, they must fill the Education For All - Fast Track Initiative's finance gap of $415 million to help 20 countries with 16 million children out ... July 31- Public Agenda - Ghana Broken promises on the 30th Anniversary of the Day of the African ... ... Next month, Global Campaign for Education will demand the G8 to keep their promises and announce that they will provide full funding so that 100 million ... July 18 - Isle of Man Today - UK Last year Cronk-y-Berry School sent more than 300 paper 'buddies' to the Send My Friend to School campaign to encourage world leaders to help the 100 million ... PUPILS JOIN BATTLE TO GET MORE TEACHERS July 6 - Scoop - New Zealand NGO leaders take it to Putin ... World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Action Aid International, Consumers International, Human Rights Watch, Global Campaign for Education, Global Call for ... July 6 - Politics - UK ActionAid: McFly and pupils challenge PM on teacher shortfall Politics.co.uk - London,UK ... The campaign is organised by the Global Campaign for Education (GCE), a coalition of international aid agencies and teachers unions. ... See all stories on this topic July 6th - Daily Herald - USA ... to become the foremost advocate in ending the triumvirate of child labor, poverty and illiteracy and one of the architects of the Global Campaign for Education ... http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/184701/4/ June 16 - Child Rights Information Network GCE's Press Release: Broken Promises on the 30th Anniversary of the Day of the African Child http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=8681 June 16 - SANGONET GCE's Press Release: Broken Promises on the 30th Anniversary of the Day of the African Child http://www.sangonet.org.za/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task =view&id=4344&Itemid=389 June 16 - UNGEI GCE's Press Release: Broken Promises on the 30th Anniversary of the Day of the African Child http://www.ungei.org/news/index_795.html June 16 - Pambazuka GCE's Press Release: Broken Promises on the 30th Anniversary of the Day of the African Child http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/education/35149 June 16 - This Day - Nigeria ... As a first step, they must fill the EFA Fast Track Initiative's finance gap of $415 million to help 20 countries with 16 million children out of school deliver ... Broken Promises on 30th Anniversary of the Day of the African ... June 16 - HREA - USA ... As a first step must fill the EFA Fast Track Initiative's finance gap of $415 million to help 20 countries with 16 million children out of school deliver their ... Broken promises on the 30th Anniversary of the Day of the African ... April 9, 2006 - Guardian Unlimited – UK huge boost for global education drive ... Lucia Fry, head of the Global Campaign for Education, said: "It's great news for education." But she was keen to see the chancellor deliver the $1.5bn a year ... http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,,1750622,00.html April 21, 2006 - Newham Recorder - UK Mr Mandela, meet Lily and Jenade ...can give them and the sooner the better,' he said.The Global Campaign for Education, which includes ActionAid, Comic Relief and Oxfam, says there... Words matched: Global Campaign for Education http://www.newhamrecorder.co.uk/content/newham/express/news/story.aspx? brand=SNEOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory= newssne&itemid=WeED21%20Apr%202006%2012%3A53%3A20%3A493 April 18 2006 - The Guardian - UK 'Nelson Mandela seemed thrilled to see us' Two pupils joined Gordon Brown in Mozambique to make sure he sticks to his promise of education for all. http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1755405,00.html March 8, 2006 - OneWorld.Net 'Grim future' if leaders fail to act on girls' education http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/128950/1 February 3, 2006 - Business Day - South Africa The Global Campaign launches their new offices in South Africa and turn attention towards the 2006 campaign for teachers. http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/article.aspx?ID=BD4A148472 November 9, 2005 - BBC - UK GCE welcomes UNESCO's Global Monitoring Report and its focus on adult literacy. High levels of illteracy are hindering global attempts to erase poverty. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4420772.stm October 26, 2005 - Citizen - South Africa GCE commemorates the loss of Justice Egware - policy advisor, CSACEFA in Nigeria http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=9499,1,22 September 29, 2005 - Vanguard - NIGERIA GCE mobilises public pressure on the Nigerian government to fulfill their promises of providing free, compulsory public basic education. http://allafrica.com/stories/200509290549.html September 28, 2005 - Embassy, CANADA Canada a 'C' Grade for Foreign Education Funding (in the GCE report card) - Canada's score was lowered by Prime Minister Paul Martin's refusal to set a timetable to reach the promised threshold of 0.7 per cent of GNI in international aid. http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_ path=/2005/september/28/edu3/ September 21, 2005 - Washington Post - USA The IMF's Barriers to Education, Letter by David Archer http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092001521.html September 15th, 2005 - Nepali Times Nepal gets an F in a survey of education in Asia-Pacific nations http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue264/review.htm [as the first article under GCE in New York] The Global Campaign for Education targets the UN Summit in New York: October 3rd, 2005 - African Echo Africa's Oldest Primary Student at the United Nations http://www.africanecho.co.uk/africanechonews1-sept23.html [at the very bottom of the page] September 14, 2005 - BBC NEWS - UK Kenya 's oldest school pupil, Kimani Nganga Maruge, is in New York to address the United Nations on the importance of free primary education. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4244520.stm September 14, 2005 - CBBC - UK Visit this site to hear the Children's BBC report of the Buddies final journey to the UN http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4240000/newsid_4242200/4242256.stm September 14, 2005 - Guardian - UK Handover of buddies to the UN http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5277505,00.html September 14, 2005 - September 14, 2005 - NBC - USA Oldest primary school student urges the UN to provide Education for All http://www.wnbc.com/education/4967580/detail.html September 14, 2005 - CNN - USA GCE's tour of buddies and handover to Nane Annan http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/09/14/pupil.un.ap/ September 14 - NEWS 24 - South Africa http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1770147,00.html GCE campaigners and their 'friends' make the media July 5th CBBC - UK Children in the UK take 'buddies' and Nelson Mandela's white band to the G8 http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4650000/newsid_4653500/4653501.stm June 17th - TES - UK GCE 'buddy' display in London's Oxo Tower http://www.tes.co.uk/2105110 May, 2005 - TES, UK 3,000 politicians go 'Back to School' to Support the Global Campaign for Education. http://www.tes.co.uk/2093847 For a more comprehensive list of coverage please contact alex@campaignforeducation.org . |
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