BACKGROUND
Education - A Human Right
There are 862 million adults and young people worldwide who cannot read and write. 121 million children - one-fifth of all school-age children - have no opportunity to attend school. Denying people access to education means denying them a basic human right. Without education, human development is impossible. Promoting education is therefore a key task in international and German development policy. more
GERMANY'S COMMITMENT
Education for All
"Education for All" is the ambitious goal that the international community has set itself. The aim is to ensure that by 2015, all school-age children have access to primary education. Further objectives are to eliminate gender disparities at all levels of the education system, and to achieve a 50 percent improvement in adult literacy levels by 2015. In order to achieve these targets, the international community has launched the "Education for All Fast Track Initiative" (FTI). It provides facilities, expertise and funding for the promotion of education worldwide. Germany is also involved in this initiative. However, Germany does not only focus on promoting primary education. It also plays an active role in the development of vocational training and higher education. more
FURTHER INFORMATION
Documents and Links
Here, you can find links to documents and web pages which offer further information on this topic. more
