Education in the Age of Globalisation – Week 4

Was Education for All too ambitious? How has this been incorporated into Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs)?

Does the model of international aid work? Why (not)?

How has the pandemic impacted SDG 4 - Quality Education for All?

Mundy, K. and Manion, C. The Education for all initiative: history and prospects post – 2015

Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and
fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional
education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on
the basis of merit. (General Assembly of the United Nations 1948).

Education was also increasingly viewed, within the Western world and in newly independent
colonies, as a significant contributor to economic development and growth.

Video 'From Education for All to Education 2030'

- Jomtien Declaration, 1990

- Dakar Senegal and adopted six educations for all goals, 2000
- The world education Forum adopted, the declaration on the future of education, 21
May 2015
- Today meets in Incheon republic of Korea to renew the vision of a new course that
builds on education as a human right essential for human dignity.
- The Incheon declaration is a transformative vision for education over the next 15
years
- The declaration encourages countries to provide inclusive, equitable, quality
education and life-long learning opportunities for all
- The declaration underpins the education targets in the sustainable development
goals that will be ratified at the United Nations in September 2015