From article:
The recent UNESCO Global Monitoring Report is a timely reminder: it throws down the gauntlet for the post-2015 development agenda negotiations currently taking place, re-focusing attention on the proposed Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for education and asking what we need to do to ensure "inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all".
The ambition of the education SDG is admirable: It’s encouraging to see learning at the heart of the agenda. One of the major criticisms of the expiring Millennium Development Goal was its narrow focus, prioritising access to education over the quality of that education—as Lant Pritchett, senior fellow at the think tank, Centre for Global Development, puts it: "schooling ain’t learning".
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