Universal primary education can be achieved by 2015 EU commissioner

From Global development | The Guardian Mon Jun 30 2014, 11:53:34

Sufficient political will is all we need to get the 58m children currently not in school into classrooms by the end of next year

There is still time to fulfil the key millennium development goal (MDG) of achieving universal primary education by 2015 if the world can muster the political will to reach out to millions of marginalised children, the European commissioner for development has said.

Despite Unesco's declaration last Thursday that there is "no chance whatsoever" of hitting the key educational goal, Andris Piebalgs believes that getting the 58 million children currently not in school into classrooms is "doable" by the end of next year.

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