06 August 2009
The UK is set to remodel its education programme in the world’s poorest countries in an attempt to help children who are considered the hardest to reach and revive international efforts to get all primary aged children into school by 2015.
We are launching a wide-ranging public consultation today to investigate a range of options that will help shape a new education strategy. The consultation is calling on the UK’s leading education experts, teachers, charity workers, NGOs and others to apply their knowledge and experience
The consultation will look at how to improve access for children in countries affected by conflict and instability alongside improving education for girls, better teachers and curricula focussed on jobs. As well as getting more children into school it's also important to ensure those attending continue to do so and the quality of their learning is improved.
Launching the consultation, Mike Foster, International Development Minister for education, said:
"Fighting poverty means we need to drive forward the education agenda. We know that fragile states breed poverty and inequality. To raise educational standards in the fight against poverty means we will have to work in these most difficult of environments."
“The UK’s aid programme has achieved real results in education and is supporting five million children in primary school.
“But we must go further and that is why we are looking at what we need to do differently, and what we need to do more of, to reach those children that have proved the hardest to reach with our existing programme.”
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