Transcript Early Childhood Education Policies, Systems, Programmes

MOBILISING FOR QUALITY
EDUCATION (MQE)
Dennis Sinyolo
EI Senior Coordinator, Education and Employment
Outline
• Rationale for MQE and its aims
• Three pillars of quality education in MQE
• The post-2015 development and education agenda
Rationale for MQE
• Evidence from GMR indicates that current MDGs and EFA
targets will not be achieved
 61 million children (primary) & 71 million adolescents out
of school
 775 million adults (2/3rd of them women) still not literate
 112 countries to expand their workforce by 5.4 million
primary school teachers to achieve EFA by 2015
 US$ 26 billion financing gap for basic education
• Quality of current education provision under attack –
crisis, privatisation, testing
MQE aim and objectives
To mobilize EI member organizations and the international
community in order to achieve the highest quality of
education for all, which is attainable in each country
 to create awareness among governments, inter-governmental
agencies and society generally that quality public education
provision for all is one of the fundamental pillars of a just and
equitable society
 to ensure that quality education is a central part of any global
post-2015 development strategy (the teaching profession to
be involved in the development & implementation of the
strategy)
Three pillars of quality
1. Quality teaching – ensured through the recruitment of high
calibre candidates to teaching, high quality initial teacher
education and continuous professional development and
attractive salaries and conditions of service
2. Quality tools– appropriate curricula and inclusive teaching
and learning materials and resources, including ICT
3. Quality environments – supportive, comfortable, safe and
secure teaching and learning environments with the
appropriate facilities to support student learning and to
enable teachers to teach effectively
The post-2015 agenda
Three main tracks:
MDGs
Post-2015 development framework
EFA/post-2015 education framework
EI/union positioning & participation
• EFA assessments
• EI study fellowship
• Advocacy – UN (GEFI, UNESCO, WB, UNICEF…), HLP,
G8/G20, national governments etc.
• EI Guidelines on the Post-2015 Agenda
• Ten Principles developed with the support of ‘Critical
Friends’
• One-pager with proposed EI goal, targets and indicators
Proposed EI goal & targets
Goal: ‘Ensure universal free quality education’
Target 1: Every child completes a fully cycle of continuous free
quality early childhood, primary and secondary education…
Target 2: All young people and adults have equitable access to
quality-post secondary education…
Time line
March 2013
EI Exbo adopts MQE
May 2013
HLP submits report to UN Secretary General
September 2013 (5 & 7) G20 Summit, St Petersburg
September 2013 UNGA/MDG Summit, New York
October 2013 (WTD) Official launch of MQE in New York
November 2013 GEM, Paris
May 2014
EI Global Education Conference
September 2014 MDG Summit, New York
2015
UNESCO World Education Forum, Seoul
Thank you!