The world is currently at risk of falling woefully short of the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. If we are to avoid this fate, a game-changing reform is needed. I believe that a Global Fund for Education is that game-changing initiative.
As you'll see in the report below, I propose that World Bank's Global Partnership for Education (formerly, the Fast Track Initiative) should be converted into an independent Global Fund for Education (GFE) that draws on the experience of the global funds in health, and that serves as a focal point for a renewed drive toward getting another 68 million children into school by 2015. The GFE would engage the business sector, and have the flexibility to make grants to NGOs and private companies, as well as national governments and multinational agencies.
It is time for governments around the world to take urgent action on behalf of the millions of children in need of a decent primary education. A Global Fund for Education would be a bold step in the right direction.
Gordon Brown: Keeping Our Promises
C. M. Rubin: The Global Search for Education: An International Education
Tammy Sutton-Brown: Read Today, Lead Tomorrow
Brown like many of his "kind" love to pretend to care for the poor and then rob them blind. Exploiting their trust.
I myself believe in compassionate government and education is the best way to create equal opportunity.
However as we have seen most foreign aid ends up being profit making for the charities, governments and dictators rather than helping anyone.
Gordon Unemployment Brown remains a cruel and very unhappy man, an insincere person who should not be trusted with the education of any child.
For years the poor have been defrauded by snake oil salesmen like Brown and sadly it continues.
Only God can save people.
As for unemployment, under the Labour Govt they stayed at around 5% until the global crisis of 2008. They were declining again until the tory/lib dem govt took over and are now rapidly rising again.
You are entitled to your opinions, but not your own facts.
Under labour the UK had 4 million healthy adults on welfare. Brown introduced top up fees in 1998, under a labour government. 30% of 16 year olds left shcool in the UK with no qualifications for 12 years under labour.
Unemployment hit 5.3 million as Brown left and was going up. His 50% tax preventing any growth.
Your support for Brown and his kind is touching but based on a fantasy.
As for browns idea, again it is based on trusting government. If you do sign up to it, if not accept the money will vanish and the children will be left with nothing.
Huffington...try not to block post because they do not support some radical far left view, thanks. Centralist and moderates like me deserve freedom of speech also.
http://www.educationforallblog.org/education-funding/our-response-to-gordon-brown%e2%80%99s-report-on-education
Many thanks,
Bob Prouty, Head of the Secretariat, Global Partnership for Education
How quaint, and how very, very borish. Next!
You oppose it because they recognized one of your enemies as a country
This pair of stooges Brown and Blair who had never run so much as a hot dog stand bankrupted Britain and swamped it with uneducated non working high breeding immigrants who were sucking on welfare in exchange for labor votes.
Go hide your head and try like Blair to show yourself in public in your home country and see what you get.