Persistent inequalities linked to poverty, gender, ethnicity and language are holding back progress in education, wasting human potential and undermining prosperity. This has been all worsened by the global economic downturn and its aftershocks, which is continuing to leave a lost generation of children excluded from schooling. Lost opportunities for education, however, hinder economic growth and efforts to reduce poverty and improve health, highlights the report.
This is the eighth edition of EFA Global Monitoring Report developed annually since 2002 by an independent team and published by UNESCO. The Report includes statistical indicators on all levels of education in more than 200 countries and territories, and serves as an authoritative reference for education policy-makers, development specialists, researchers and the media.
To raise the awareness of Iranian education communities as well as civil society on the EFA and its 2010 Global Monitoring Report, Mr. Qunli Han, Representative and Director of UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office and Mr. Gholamreza Karimi, Director General of the Bureau of International Scientific Cooperation of the Iranian Ministry of Education organized a joint press conference at Tehran International School on 19 January 2010.
UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO, has translated and made available Farsi language versions of the annual reports 2008 and 2009.
To advocate for more use of such important reports, it is in the plan to also release Farsi edition of the 2010 EFA Global Monitoring Report.
For more information please refer to: EFA-Global Monitoring Report