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By Pauline Rose
The figures in the recently published Education for All Global Monitoring Report are a sad indictment on how we continue to fail children around the world. In our report we reveal that one in three young people in sub-Saharan Africa have never completed primary school. While in Kenya the figures are better, still one in ten young people lack the skills learnt at primary school and are struggling to find dignified work. And those who are most likely to lack these skills are from the poorest households, either living in urban poverty or in rural areas. One in three young women living in rural Kenya has spent fewer than four years in school.
But if governments believe that education is merely a problem for the education ministers to solve, then they are wrong. In today’s global economy, failing to provide proper education will undermine economic growth, reinforce social inequalities and mean those running businesses do not have a skilled work force they need.
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