(MENAFN-Khaleej Times) poverty, distance from school, unsafe learning environments were cited as few of the reasons behind the marginalisation of millions of girls
Education for girls should improve across developing countries in order to overcome the challenges of chronic discrimination and poverty, to usher in positive social changes.
Addressing the final day of the global education and skills ?orum (ges?) on monday, reem ibrahim al hashemi, uae minister of state and chairperson of dubai cares, said: “girls’ education should be the cornerstone of every single social intervention. if girls are not part of an education process, any effort in this area will be far from achieving sustainable development, and the cycle of poverty will not be broken.”
Panelists highlighted that girls are less likely than boys to complete primary school, while only 38 per cent of countries have achieved gender parity in secondary education despite international commitments to close this gap. poverty, distance from school, unsafe learning environments, a dearth of trained female teachers and social norms were cited as key reasons behind the marginalisation of millions of girls from knowledge and skills development.
The final day of the forum also saw the launch of a major campaign, business backs education, challenging businesses to commit 20 per cent of its global corporate social responsibility (csr) spend to education by 2020.
The campaign, in partnership with unesco and the global business coalition for education, is designed to bring business in line with government and ngo education spending targets.
Speakers addressing various sessions during the forum underlined the need to forge effective and integrated partnerships between the public, private and social sectors to make the best use of new technologies to provide access to quality education to children around the world.
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