Global Action Week: 15 million more teachers needed
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Global Action Week, 24 – 30th April 2006
If you can read this, thank a teacher. We’ve come a long way since the Global Campaign for Education started in 1999. School fees have been dropped in many countries, millions more children can now go to school and the UK has just pledged $15 billion to education, which gives real promises that Education for All might become a reality. But, we still need at least 15 million more teachers, if every child is to have the chance of a good quality education. Right now, over 100 million children wake up every day without the hope that education offers. These children know AIDS, know poverty, know hard labour, know hunger… but they will never know a teacher. If we are to provide them with teachers, rich countries must follow the lead of the UK and provide long-term predictable funding to developing countries. In order to plan ambitiously, governments need to a guarantee of long-term predictable aid from all rich countries. Global Action Week is now taking place in an amazing 115 nations. The majority of countries have already collected evidence, about the need for more, qualified and trained teachers in developing countries. Their evidence will be presented to officials who have been invited back-to-school and also at national ‘Big Hearings’. Campaigners are putting officials on trial, for failed education promises and asking for their declarations that they must do better. SOURCE: Global Campaign for Education |
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