The World Education Forum of
governments, development agencies, civil society and private sector working together
to achieve educational goals by 2015. The objective of the goals was to meet
the learning needs of all children, youth and adults and they are:
1.
Expanding and improving comprehensive early
childhood care and education for vulnerable and disadvantaged children.
2.
Ensuring all children, particularly girls in
difficult circumstances and ethnic minorities, have access to quality education.
3.
Ensuring the learning needs of all young people
and adults are met through equitable access to appropriate learning and
life-skills programs
4.
Achieving a 50 per cent improvement in levels of
adult literacy for women, and equitable access to basic and continuing
education for all adults.
5.
Eliminating gender disparities and equality in
education, with a focus on girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in
basic education of good quality.
6.
Improving all aspects of the quality of
education and ensuring excellence to recognize measurable learning outcomes are
achieved by all, in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills.
It is good to see strong advocacy going on worldwide
for girls and women to set measurable obtainable goals. In other countries girls
are so often over looked when it comes to education.
