Education Policy
A good education is the basis for helping to address many of the
interrelated issues faced by developing countries. The Education
Department is involved in developing cross
cutting DFID policy and the promotion of sustainable strategies
for education and development.
"The human costs of failing
to enable all people to realise the right to basic education on
an equitable basis are incalculable. All other efforts to improve
health and nutrition, address the causes and impact of HIV/AIDS…
and the achievement of other fundamental rights, are undermined"
DFID - The Challenge of Universal Primary Education
Education Millenium Goals
Our work is focused on the attainment of the Millennium Development
Goal for education:
Education Millennium Development Goal - Achieve universal primary
education
Corresponding target: To ensure that by 2015, children everywhere,
boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of
primary schooling
Education also features prominently within the Gender Millennium
Development Goal:
Gender Millennium Development Goal - Promote gender equality
and empower women
Corresponding Education target: Eliminate gender disparity in primary
and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of
education no later than 2015
The other Millennium Development Goal in which education plays
an important part, is the Goal for HIV/AIDS.
HIV/AIDs Millennium Development Goal - Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria
and other diseases
The second major priority "Beyond Primary Education"
is education and skills development. It recognises that if globalisation
is to work for poor people, increased investment in education, life-long
learning and skills is essential.
Key DFID Education Policy Documents
The Challenge of Universal Primary Education
Speech by Clare Short
Summary
Paper
(PDF)
Children Out Of School
Speech by Clare Short
Summary
Paper
(PDF)
Poverty Elimination and the Empowerment of Women
Summary
Paper
(PDF)
HIV/AIDS Target Strategy Paper
Paper
(PDF)
Education for All
Literacy for Livelihoods
(PDF)
DFID
Support for EFA since Dakar
Key Education Documents - Non DFID
Summary
The
Dakar Framework for Action (full text) PDF
EFA
Global Monitoring Report, 2002: Is the World on Track
Other DFID Policy Documents
Eliminating World Poverty
Eliminating
World Poverty: A Challenge for the 21st Century - 1997 White Paper
on International Development
Eliminating
World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor - 2000 White
Paper on International Development
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