22 April 2008
Gambia is joining more than 100 other countries across the world to support Unesco's annual Education for All Campaign this week.
The programme aims to promote free compulsory education for all across the globe and various activities centred around the theme of "Quality Education to End Exclusion" will be organised throughout the week.
The highlight of the event is the world's biggest lesson where politicians will be asked what they are currently putting into place to secure access to education. In Gambia, the biggest lesson is to take place tomorrow in Bwiam in the south of the country.
Although the number of out-of-school children worldwide has considerably dropped from 96 million in 1999 to 72 million in 2005 according to Unesco's figures, there is still a major effort to be made in order to achieve the global goal of education for all.
The Global Week of Action will raise the issues of accessibility and quality of education, questioning the infrastructure of schools, teachers' work conditions as well as problems relating to shortage of learning materials.
The movement also aims to help developing countries achieve Unesco's 2015 Millennium Development Goals.
