Urgent action is needed to tackle a “twin crisis” in access to education and the quality of teaching, according to the 2012 Africa Progress Report, Jobs, Justice and Equity: Seizing Opportunities in Times of Global Change, which was launched on Friday at the World Economic Forum on Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “With 30 million children out of school and many of those in school failing to master basic literacy,” the report says, “Africa is ill-equipped to generate jobs and take its place in a knowledge-based global economy.”
Calling for a stronger focus on education, along with better funding mechanisms, the report says African governments and their development partners should make a “big push” towards the 2015 development goals, “focusing on the most disadvantaged countries, children who are being left behind and the need to improve learning achievement.”
To illustrate how disadvantages linked to wealth, gender and location reinforce one another in limiting opportunities for education, the report refers to the Deprivation and Marginalization in Education database developed by the GMR team for the 2010 EFA Global Monitoring Report, Reaching the marginalized. As the figure on Nigeria reproduced in the Africa Progress Report shows (below), poor rural Hausa women aged 17 to 22 average less than one year in school, compared with over nine years for urban males from wealthy households. According to the Africa Progress Report, the number of those aged 0-14 is set to increase in Nigeria by more than 25 million over the next decade, magnifying the the challenges for education and youth employment.
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