Universal education crisis costs $129 billion per year says new study

This news might come as a saddening bit but the studies say that universal education won't be achieved until the next century and the learning crisis is costing governments $129 billion a year. According to reports, Unesco's 11th Education For All Global Monitoring Report has stated that the crisis will affect generations of kids if no corrective steps are taken.

It was reported that according to the report summary, 10% of global spending on primary education is being wasted on poor quality education that is failing to ensure that children learn. This situation leaves one in four kids in poor countries unable to read a single sentence. The report says good teachers are key to improving the situation and calls on governments to provide the best to those who need them most.  

It was mentioned that this year's report, titled "Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all", says without sufficient and trained teachers, the learning crisis will last for several generations and hit the disadvantaged the hardest. In many sub-Saharan African countries, for example, only one in five of the poorest children reach the end of primary school, having learnt the basics in reading and mathematics. The reports says that going by current trends, it will take until 2072 for all the poorest young women in developing countries to be literate, and possibly until the next century for all girls from the poorest families in sub-Saharan Africa to finish lower secondary school.

Due to poor quality education, 175 million kids in poor countries — a quarter of the youth population — can't read an entire or part of a sentence, affecting one-third of young women in South and West Asia.  According to the report, even in high-income countries, education systems are failing significantly large minorities. In New Zealand, while nearly all students from rich households achieved minimum standards in Stds IV and VIII, only two-thirds of poor students did so. It also highlights the need to address gender-based violence in schools, a major barrier to quality and equality in education.