How vicious budget setbacks are jolting basic education financing

A schooling crisis in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is emerging, as only one out of 10 young people will be on track to gain basic secondary education level skills by 2030, according to the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity.

In a report, The Learning Generation: Investing in Education for a Changing World, the commission pointed out that in many countries, education is not improving as only half of primary-school aged children and little more than a quarter of secondary-school aged children are learning basic primary and secondary-level skills.