[New post] Spend now on education to avoid higher cost to society later

admin posted: "By Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser to UN Secretary General for Transforming Education and Lily Neyestani, UNESCO Chief of SDG4 Global Education Cooperation and Inter-Agency Secretariat to the High-Level Steering Committee  Earlier this month we parti" World Education Blog Spend now on education to avoid higher cost to society later admin Oct 31 By Leonardo Garnier, Special Adviser to UN Secretary General for Transforming Education and Lily Neyestani, UNESCO Chief of SDG4 Global Education Cooperation and Inter-Agency Secretariat to the High-Level Steering Committee  Earlier this month we participated in a high-level panel on education at the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in Marrakech bringing finance ministers around the table to discuss education spending not as a cost but as a critical enabling investment for the progress of societies. Protracted education crisis in all its dimensions Across the world, education today is in crisis. It is a crisis of equity and inclusion, as millions of children remain out of school and deprived of the opportunities to learn. Recent UNESCO figures show that the number of children that are out of school has increased to 250 million.  To ensure countries reach their commitments to reduce this number, we would need to enrol a child in school every 2 seconds between now and 2030. Continue reading Spend now on education to avoid higher cost to society later Comment Manage your email settings or unsubscribe. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: https://world-education-blog.org/2023/10/31/spend-now-on-education-to-avoid-higher-cost-to-society-later/

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