The 2013/4 Education for All Global Monitoring Report "Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all" shows that a lack of attention to education quality and a failure to reach the marginalized have contributed to a learning crisis that needs urgent attention. Worldwide, 250 million children - many of them from disadvantaged backgrounds - are not learning the basics. Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all describes how policy-makers can support and sustain a quality education system for all children, regardless of background, by providing the best teachers. The Report also documents global progress in achieving Education for All goals and provides lessons for setting a new education agenda post-2015. In addition, the Report identifies that insufficient financing is hindering advances in education. 

The launch event will enable full presentation and discussion of the Report findings.

Time: 7 April 2014 1.30-6pm

Location: Logan Hall, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL

Speakers:

• Lynne Featherstone, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development (to be confirmed)
• Mary Stiasny, Pro-Director International, Institute of Education, University of London
• Pauline Rose, Director of 2013/4 EFA Global Monitoring Report, Professor of International Education, University of Cambridge
• Bob Moon, Open University
• Rob Faure Walker, teacher, Tower Hamlets
• Kevin Watkins, Director, Overseas Development Institute
• Discussion moderated by Sean Coughlan, BBC Education Correspondent

All welcome; the event is free.

Participants will receive a copy of the Report which is featured below and can also be downloaded on-line for free.

For further information please contact: Samantha Ducey: [email protected] and Emma Jones: [email protected]