Literacy for life / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, author, issuing body.

Series:

EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching.

English language.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (447 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

EFA Global Monitoring Report 2006

Place of Publication:

Paris : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005.

Summary:

Some 770 million adults -- about one-fifth of the world's adult population -- do not have basic literacy skills. The Report makes a case that literacy is a right in itself, essential to achieve all the EFA (Education for All) goals and critically important for development. The report confirms that the goal to achieve gender parity in primary and secondary education by 2005 was not met, despite very rapid progress, especially in a number of low-income countries. On the other hand, resources for basic education increased: public spending on education rose in developing countries and the international community promised to increase its support, especially to sub-Saharan Africa, as reflected at the G-8 summit in Gleneagles in July 2005 and the United Nations World Summit in New York in September 2005.

Notes:

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