Governments must be held accountable for African countries’ slow progress on global education goals since underperforming schools and teachers are usually victims of a dysfunctional system, the U.N.’s cultural agency UNESCO said on Wednesday.
Sub-Saharan Africa falls behind other parts of the world by
most education standards, with one in four young people unable to read and 33
million children out of primary school, more than half of all those in the
world.
The problems largely stem from lack of government
regulation, corruption, high school costs, and other factors that could be
improved if states were held liable, UNESCO said in a new report.
While 70 percent of all countries have at least nine years
of compulsory education, only 40 percent of countries in sub-Saharan Africa do,
the report found.
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