RECENTLY, the World Bank revealed that apart from millions of children around the globe who are out of school, more than half the students at schools are not learning. The global platform is pledge-bound to ensure free primary and secondary education by 2030 which may lure businessmen to set up institutions for higher number of students regardless of the quality of education.
According to the UNESCO, 56 per cent of the children who are enrolled in schools in developing countries and 90 per cent in Sub-Saharan Africa are not learning and this has emerged as a global problem.
France and co-host partner Senegal arranged a high level education financing conference at Dakar on February 2, 2018 aimed at raising $3.0 billion fund for supporting education of 870 million children in 89 countries where 78 per cent of the world's out-of-school population live.
The global partnership for education, an organisation of governments, private organisations and donors, has been pushing the governments of the poor countries to raise their expenditure on education to 20.0 per cent of national budgets.
Last year the International Development Committee in Britain suggested that the Department for International Development (DFID) should increase its spending from 8 per cent to 10 per cent to tackle the global learning crisis. The committee presented evidence that shows that on an average less than $10.0 annually is spent on a child in a low-income and middle-income country.
The Human Rights Watch says, primary schools have made meaningful progress in low-income countries, but millions of children still remain out of secondary education.
In Bangladesh enrolment in schools at both primary and secondary levels has been rising significantly, but I am afraid, children are not learning well if not nothing and one of the main factors attributable is question paper leaks at all levels and overdependence on coaching until recently.
Mahiul Kadir
Executive Director, Hope for the Poorest
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