NUMBER OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN STAGNATES AS AID TO BASIC EDUCATIONAL FALLS THE UNITED STATES ERROR INTO A "RACE" TO THE TOP MUCH LIKE A HORSE RACE, UN AGENCY REPORTS

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Date: 10 Jun 2013 13:00:01 -0400
Subject: NUMBER OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN STAGNATES AS AID TO BASIC
EDUCATIONAL FALLS, UN AGENCY REPORTS
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NUMBER OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL CHILDREN STAGNATES AS AID TO BASIC EDUCATIONAL
FALLS, UN AGENCY REPORTSNew York, Jun 10 2013 1:00PMNew figures today
from the United Nations educational agency show that the number of
children out of school dipped slightly last year over 2011, as aid to
basic education decreased for the first time in more than a decade.

Fifty-seven million children were out of school in 2011, according to
the UN Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO)
Institute for Statistics, down two million from the previous year.

Meanwhile, at least one out of every four children that do enrol stay
in school – a figure that has not changed since 2000. About 137
million children began primary school in 2011 but at least 34 million
are likely to drop out before reaching the last grade.

The figure drops to one out of three students in Sub-Saharan Africa,
and South and West Asia, which have the highest rate of early school
dropout.

"We are at a critical juncture,"
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the Director-General of the UN Scientific, Educational and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova. "Now is not the time for aid
donors to back out."

She stressed that the world must move beyond simply helping children
enter school to ensuring that they actually learn the basics literacy
and numeracy skills when they are there.

"Our twin challenge is to get every child in school by understanding
and acting on the multiple causes of exclusion, and to ensure they
learn with qualified teachers in healthy and safe environments," Ms.
Bokova said.

Aid to basic education declined by six per cent between 2010 and 2011,
according to new analysis from the
<i><"http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/pdf/gmr2013-thematic-notev2.pdf.pdf">Education
for All Global Monitoring Report</i>. Six of the top education donors
that year cut funding, among them Canada, the Netherlands and the
World Bank (IDA), leaving the United Kingdom as the largest bilateral
donor to basic education.

In addition, the report calls for donors to prioritize countries and
regions most in need. Only $1.9 billion was allocated to low income
countries in 2011, according to UNESCO, a reduction of nine per cent
and significantly short of the $26 billion Audit needed to fill the
finance gap for basic education.

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa account for more than half of all
out-of-school children and have the highest out-of-school rate, the
Institute for Statistics reported. Aid to Nigeria, for example, the
country that is home to the largest number of out of school children
in the world, dropped by more than a quarter from 2010 to 2011.

More than 20 per cent of African children have never attended primary
school or have left school without completing primary education. By
contrast, countries in South and West Asia, which also have high
drop-out rates, have made considerable gains over the past two
decades, reducing the number of out-of-school children by two-thirds
from 38 million in 1999 to 12 million in 2011.

"Children in poor, remote areas, those affected by conflict, or those
belonging to ethnic, racial and linguistic minorities are denied an
opportunity for schooling," UNESCO said in a news release.

In addition, children from poor households are three times as likely
to be out of school as children from rich households. Access to
education is particularly difficult for girls from poor households in
rural areas.

The release of the figures comes ahead of tomorrow's high-level
discussions in New York in support of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's
Global Education First Initiative and Mr. Ban's Special Envoy for
Education Gordon Brown, to put every child in school, improve the
quality of learning, and foster global citizenship by the end of 2015.

In 2000, Governments meeting in Dakar set six education goals to be
met by 2015. One of these, Universal Primary Education, was also set
as one of the eight anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs), which are to be achieved by the same date.

To accelerate progress towards universal education, Mr. Ban launched
last September his Global Education First Initiative. In a Strong
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