The Education for All Global Monitoring Report says an additional $16 billion in annual funding would be needed to achieve universal primary school education by 2015.
VOA: standard.2010.05.19
Education coordinator Madiana Samba, of the advocacy organization Action Aid International, says the government must address the shortfall if they are to achieve real universal primary education.
VOA: standard.2010.02.25
Another 1.9 million teachers will be needed by 2015 to achieveuniversalprimaryeducation, more than half of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
One third of Commonwealth countries have yet to achieveuniversalprimaryeducation and gender parity, and 27 million Commonwealth children do not currently receive schooling.