strategy
Improving primary education
Synonyms:
Offering adequate preparatory educationProviding sufficient preparatory education
Increasing sufficient primary schooling
Increasing primary education
Remedying elementary education lacks
Implementation:
Some of the more populous countries of the developing world have achieved better than expected levels of primary education, when taking into account their stage of economic development. The most notable examples of such countries (and their percentage literacy level) are China (86), Sri Lanka (95), Zimbabwe (94), Egypt (91), Indonesia (83), and India (62).Between 1970 and 1990, Indonesia and Kenya achieved rapid and sustained growth of primary school enrolments and raised the proportion of girls to nearly half of all pupils. These gains were brought about by a combination of high-level political commitment to universal primary schooling, information programmes that created stronger demand on the part of parents and support from the international community.
Developing countries, since independence, have made remarkable progress in expanding their primary school enrolment. According to estimates, 216 million students enrolled in primary schools in 1960, as compared with 475 million in 1985.
Narrower:
Supporting book publishing Constrains:
Denying right to free primary education Facilitates:
Reducing population growthReducing individual fertilityExpanding childhood schooling optionsImproving basic education for the poorImproving access of girls to basic educationEnabling poor to achieve sustainable livelihood Facilitated by:
Financing educationErecting primary school facilityCreating primary school councilsTeaching primary school educatorsEncouraging expanded school enrolmentGiving priority in education budgets to primary education Problems:
Decline in government expenditure on primary educationDenial of right to education
Illiteracy
Inadequate education for nomadic children
Insufficient primary education
Lack of emphasis on basic education
Values:
IncreaseEducationOvereducation Organizations:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Organization of African Unity United Nations Development Programme International Bank for Reconstruction and Development United Nations Children's Fund Subjects:
Education → Education Education → Primary schooling
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
