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Salutary Move To Boost Up Education

There is an adage which says if anyone thinks education is expensive they should try illiteracy. Thus, no matter the cost of education, it may never be too expensive to pursue given that to ignore the right to education could mean leaving too many people without a future. Several parts of the world, especially in Africa, have been victim of the issues of poor education for the population and the situation has been so strong to the extent of attracting planetary attention. Faced with the growing challenge to provide quality education for youth across the world, the Global Partnership for Education, GPE succeeded in rallying over 50 countries in Dakar, Senegal from 1-2 February, 2018. Participating counties pledged to increase their education budget. Some 3.3 Billion dollars were earmarked to be pumped into the educational sector from 2018 -2020 across the world even though the real amount required to meet the set target within the period is estimated at 110 billion dollars.  Co-chaired by the French and Senegalese leaders, the conference ended with a call for countries to put in more in financing the educational needs of their populations.     

No one can afford to be indifferent to such a laudable initiative. But as the countries make lofty pledges in front of media cameras, it may be hard to ignore the local or national realities that have characterised such diplomatic moves in the past. Some stack political and economic challenges have often made most countries to seep under the carpet all promises made in forums like the one that took place in Senegal.     

While most developed countries have been coping with certain academic hurdles by providing the necessary infrastructure and funding to build critical manpower that can ensure the progress they need, Third World countries have, on their part, kept playing games and hiding behind hards...

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