The report, based on the latest data which is from 2011, shows that there are still 57 million children who do not even get the first basics of schooling. More optimistically, this represents an almost 50% drop in out-of-school children since 2000.
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BBC News: Tackling Uganda’s lack of school places
A senior teacher in Kiira View secondary school, near the town of Jinja, says the best thing about the school is that staff get paid on time. It’s such a simple but important point. What is called “teacher absenteeism” is a major barrier.
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BBC News: Pisa tests – What do we know now?
The runaway success story has been the achievement of a clutch of Asian education systems. But results saw the OECD’s Andreas Schleicher challenging any stereotypes about some places having an inherent “culture” of education.
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BBC News: How Pisa became the world’s most important exam
Your education today is your economy tomorrow,” says Andreas Schleicher from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, who has become one of the world’s most influential figures in education.
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BBC News: View to a skill – The next big education player?
There is going to be huge consolidation worldwide into a small number of platforms for learning, because it’s going to be very hard to compete with them,” he predicts, likening it to how Amazon has become the global bookseller. So these platforms are going to be huge, some of the biggest and most valuable companies in the world.”
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