Educational levels in lower-income countries are falling far behind international goals, say leading funders and experts, while warning against plans for the UN to drop a key measurement of basic learning.
As a three-day conference on educational statistics at Unesco begins in Paris, the experts fear that limitations in data to track the UN’s fourth 2030 sustainable development goal mean basic numeracy and literacy measures may be abandoned by the end of this year.
The move would risk further reducing accountability and pressure on governments to improve educational prospects for primary school children at a time when investment in schools and progress with learning have slowed, even before the setbacks caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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