MILLENNIUM EDUCATION GOALS

BY KEITH NUTHALLAS with many projects inspired by the start of the next 997 years and the last three, the framing of the United Nations' (UN) Millennium Development Goals was an ambitious enterprise.Imposing statistically measurable targets for international organisations and national governments in making improvements in global poverty, education, gender equality, health, the environment and education, they have proved tough to attain.Regarding education, the goals impose a target of achieving universal primary schooling; that is, by 2015, children in any ...


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