HIGHER EDUCATION SHOULD GET ‘LION’S SHARE’ IN POST-2015 EDUCATIONAL GOALS

WITH the deadline for the UNESCO Education for All goals now just two years away, a consensus is emerging that post-2015 global efforts to expand education should focus on the tertiary sector. That was the outcome of an Education in the Post-2015 Development Agenda seminar staged on Wednesday (January 5) in Brussels that brought together educational experts and policy makers, hosted by the Norwegian government.We need to “strengthen higher education systems… to provide more and better education in developing countries,” said the European Union's (EU) ...


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