Education strategy 2010
2. New challenges, new strategy
2.1 Why a new education strategy?
The new government White Paper reaffirmed the UK commitment to spending £8.5 billion on education to 2015. But the context in which we do this has changed. The new education strategy will address how DFID will increase the impact of our education investment to deal with these new global challenges. In doing this 3 complementary [...]
2.2 Global progress and challenges
Global efforts in education are making a difference although challenges remain. Progress On MDG 2 (universal primary education) the number of out-of-school primary aged children has dropped from 103m in 1999 to 75m in 2006. See Figure 2, below. On MDG 3 (gender equality and empowerment of women) 95 girls (up from 92 in 1999) [...]
2.3 Our impact so far
UK efforts have delivered: DFID’s contribution to education MDGs is measured as part of the Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets. According to this, good progress is being made but more needs to be done to improve primary school completion to reach our targets An initial estimate shows that in total, DFID is potentially supporting around [...]
