The 2017-2018
Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report on accountability in education has
revealed that an estimated 100 million youth globally cannot read, reports ITRealms.
The second
in the GEM Report series, ITRealms
reports, showed that there remain major education problems around the world
that accountability could help solve, including meeting of commitments, and
capable of assisting in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4.
According to
the extract of GEM 2017-18 made available to ITRealms, “Only 1 in 10 children in
sub-Saharan Africa has basic reading skills. Around the world, 100 million
youth cannot even read. One in seven primary school teachers are not trained.
Millions continue to be taught in a language they don't speak at home.
Meanwhile, the share of education in total aid has fallen for the sixth year in
a row, and one in four governments do not meet the agreed education financing
thresholds.“
The Report also
looked at who is responsible for achieving the global education goal, SDG 4,
which showed that calling on individuals and institutions to report how they
tried to meet their responsibilities - a process commonly known as
accountability - can help achieve an equitable education system of good
quality.
Accountability,
GEM report underscored, starts with governments, which are ultimately
responsible for fulfilling the right to education, stressing that this right
should be written into law and strictly enforced.
“Currently,
citizens can take their governments to court for violating the right to
education in only 55 per cent of countries,” part of the GEM report read,
insisting that “everyone has a role to play in improving education.”
Uj. N. Dominic/GEE
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