Countries across the globe fail to meet educational commitments, five years since the UN adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for the target date of 2030.
This was according to new projections produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Global Education Monitoring Report titled Meeting Commitments: Are countries on track to achieve SDG 4?
The SDG 4 calls for effective learning, not just for school enrolment.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development emphasizes leaving no one behind, but it reveals that only 4% of the poorest 20% complete upper secondary school in the poorest countries, compared to 36% of the richest.
Moreover, lower-middle-income countries have wider gaps.
In a new examine made by UNESCO, all children should be in school but still one in six 6 to 17-year-olds will be excluded in 2030, which also shows that 40% of children worldwide will fail to complete secondary education.
Learning rates according to the new trends are expected to decline most especially in middle-income countries. This rate is anticipated to drop by almost a third in Francophone African countries in 2030.
20% of young people and 30% of adults in low-income countries will still be unable to read by the target date.
Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Silvia Montoya said that countries need more appropriate information to target policies and make the most of every resource spent on education.
“Data are a necessity, not a luxury for all countries. Yet today, fewer than half of countries can provide the data needed to monitor progress towards the global education goal. What is the point in setting targets if we can’t track them? Better finance and coordination are needed to support countries, fix this data gap and, most importantly, make progress before we get any closer to the deadline,” she said.
The problem in countries’ plans and commitments includes lack of cross-sectoral collaboration, which can be found in attempts to link all aspects from early childhood education, health care, and the labor market.
Unless a serious advancement will be implemented in the coming decade.
