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Education for All Global Monitoring Report
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Chapter 2
EFA progress:
where do we stand?
This chapter assesses progress towards the Education for All goals,
using the most recent global education data, for the 2002/2003
school year. What has happened since the World Education Forum held
in Dakar in 2000? Is there evidence that the goal of gender parity in
primary and secondary education is being met in 2005? Is the world
on track to achieve Education for All by 2015?
After summarizing the global picture in 2002 as compared to 1998,
the chapter examines (a) trends in early childhood care and education;
(b) progress towards universal primary education, including the
continuing challenge of children out of school; (c) the global increase
in participation in secondary and tertiary education; (d) recent
assessments of the outcomes of formal schooling; and (e) the
evolution of adult literacy rates. In each section, special attention is
paid to gender. The final section summarizes overall progress through
the EFA Development Index. In addition, it uses projections to analyse
country prospects of achieving by 2015 the goals of universal primary
education, gender parity in primary and secondary education,
and increased levels of adult literacy.
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