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Despite challenges, = EFA is=20 moving forward, says UNESCO DG

Significant progress = has been=20 made towards achieving Education for All, but "huge = challenges" must=20 still be overcome if the objectives set by the world's = nations in=20 Dakar (Senegal) five years ago are to be met by 2015*, = UNESCO=20 Director-General Ko=95chiro Matsuura has said.

Speaking at the fifth meeting of the High Level Group on=20 Education for All (EFA), which was formally opened by the = Premier of=20 The People's Republic of China, Wen Jiabao recently, the=20 Director-General said that even though the goal of achieving = gender=20 parity by 2005 had been missed, more girls were in school = than ever=20 before. He also noted that some 20 million new students now = attend=20 classes in low-income countries in sub Saharan Africa, South = and=20 West Asia and national spending on basic education as well = as=20 external aid to EFA had also risen.

However, unless current trends improve, according to him, = gender=20 parity "may not be achieved by 2015 in as many as 86 = countries."=20 Besides, he affirmed that 18 percent of the world's adults = are still=20 illiterate, and "it is also clear that the quality of basic=20 education remains low and will not lead to meaningful = learning=20 outcomes unless tackled with renewed vigour."

Matsuura welcomed the pledge by Chinese Premier Wen = Jiabao to=20 substantially increase China's contribution to education = development=20 throughout the world, to accelerate progress toward the EFA = goals.=20 In his address at the opening ceremony, the Premier pledged = to:=20 train 1,500 schoolmasters and teachers from developing = countries=20 annually over the next three years; donate 100 experimental = rural=20 schools to developing countries over the next three years; = increase=20 the number and the value of scholarships and university = places for=20 students from developing countries to 10,000 annually; = increase=20 financial support for developing countries hit by natural = disasters;=20 and to grant one million dollars in aid to pertinent = research and=20 training projects undertaken by UNESCO's International = Institute for=20 Capacity-Building in Africa and the UNESCO International = Centre for=20 Girls and Women's Education in Africa.

China's experience running the largest education system = in the=20 world,

the Premier said, "has driven home to us that only by = speeding up=20 education development for the entire citizenry, can we turn = our huge=20 population into an enormous resource, put economic = development in=20 orbit or progress in science and

technology, and improve the living standards of the = entire

population."

The High Level Group meeting on the EFA brings together = Ministers=20 of education, co-operation and development, the donor = community and=20 other intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations = annually=20 to assess progress towards the EFA goals. This year's = meeting,=20 hosted by the Government of the People's Republic of China, = focussed=20 on the goal of halving adult illiteracy by 2015. It also = worked on a=20 Joint Action Plan to stimulate action on the EFA goals and = to offer=20 better, concrete, support at the national level to countries = in=20 their efforts to achieve them.

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