{"id":1957,"date":"2017-01-10T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T22:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2022-01-27T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:40:08","slug":"the-education-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/the-education-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"The Education Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"600_449434077\"<\/a>“In 2016, a quarter of a billion children and young people are out of school. Another 330 million are not learning because we fail to invest in them even when they are in school. We cannot accept another year or decade like this. It is time we started telling new stories about our children. Time we offered them not just safety, but a real future \u2013 not just freedom from fear, but the freedom to realize their potential through education<\/i>.” \u00a0Rt Hon Gordon Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read it here<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Overview<\/h2>\n

The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity was set up to reinvigorate the case for investing in education and to chart a pathway for increased investment in order to develop the potential of all of the world\u2019s young people. It brings together the best research and policy analysis to identify the most effective and accountable ways of mobilising and deploying resources to help ensure that all children and young people have the opportunity to participate, learn and gain the skills they need for adulthood and work in the 21st century. Specifically, the Commission created three separate panels of expert advisors, each focused on a critical issue related to education reform: technology<\/a>, health<\/a>, and finance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Education Commission\u2019s work builds upon the vision agreed to by world leaders in 2015 with the UN Sustainable Development Goal for education: To ensure inclusive and equitable quality education by 2030 and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.<\/p>\n

Taking Urgent Action<\/h2>\n

Sufficient leadership and investment in education has not been a priority for governments and leaders. Education\u2019s share in government budgets has been declining in a number of countries despite growing needs. With international assistance to education declining by nearly 10 percent in recent years, the financing gap for basic education is unlikely to be closed without urgent action.<\/p>\n

If leaders do not take action now to increase investment and reform global education, more than 124 million young people will continue to be denied access to schools and more than 250 million will not gain the skills they need to lead healthy and successful lives.<\/p>\n

Over the last year, the Education Commission has sought to persuade global leaders to take urgent action by bringing together the best evidence on what works in expanding access to quality education and learning for all.<\/p>\n

The first generation where every child goes to school<\/h2>\n

Inspired by examples of extraordinary educational advancement around the world, and challenged by the urgent need to continually reshape education to meet the needs of a new generation, the Education Commission articulates a progressive way forward for global education. They show how their vision of a world in which all children and young people are in school and learning is not a dream but an achievable reality already witnessed in some countries. If we transform the performance of education systems, unleash innovation, prioritise inclusion, expand financing, and motivate all countries to accelerate their progress to match the world\u2019s top 25 percent fastest education improvers, we can build the \u201cLearning Generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next steps<\/h2>\n

Following the launch of the Education Commission’s report at the United Nations, the Commission’s efforts now shift toward report uptake and holding all actors to account for delivering the #LearningGeneration. During the coming year, the Commission will work to\u00a0disseminate<\/strong> the Commission report and agenda for action, inspire and motivate <\/strong>reforms in financing and delivery of education and\u00a0structure partnerships <\/strong>to carry forward the recommendations.\u00a0During the past month, the Commission’s report findings have been covered in 237 news stories, 16 Commissioner OpEds and disseminated through a launch video generating more than 1.2 million views. You can see some of the coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the coming year, the Commission will focus on five priority areas:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Supporting Pioneer Countries
\n2.\u00a0Establishing Multilateral Development Bank Investment Mechanism
\n3.\u00a0Strengthening Global Accountability
\n4.\u00a0Catalysing Strategic Initiatives
\n5.\u00a0Spreading the Message<\/p>\n

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\"education\"<\/a>The goals of the Lancet<\/em> Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing are consistent with and complementary to those of the Education Commission. The Lancet Commission called for guaranteeing access to free, quality secondary education for all as the single best investment for health and wellbeing. It presented new evidence that participation in secondary education is associated with a range of health benefits for individuals and societies. But it also reviewed evidence suggesting that it is not merely enrolment in secondary education that is critical to achieving health impacts but also: the quality of education provided; the extent to which schools actively engage students in an inclusive community; and the implementation of multi-component school health interventions.<\/p>\n

By\u00a0Prof\u00a0Chris Bonell<\/a>
\n#LancetYouth Commisisoner
\nProfessor of Public Health Sociology
\nHead of Department\u00a0of Social & Environmental Health Research, LSHTM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introducing the Education Commission. Read their report here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adolescentsourfuture.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}