5 year update from global education summit korea

girls livelihood education greatest hero sir fazle abed 1 2 3 died dec 2019- we wonder how he would update in 2020 this 2015 invitation to all parents to celebrate education for all as urgently and joyfully as possible

From a leading youth correspondent of Sustaining Bangladeshi Villagers over recent decades, Bangladesh has rightly been bringing movement in the society in the field of education, sanitation, vaccination, family planning, mother’s health etc. Education: s few decades ago at villages, education was only for those who were rich; poor people normally were not sending their children to schools. This scenario has been shifting, especially with mobile empowerment throughout the last 20 years, because of a social movement led by the non-government organisations eg, BRAC & Grameen. Now even a rikshaw puller who earns less than $5 a day is happily spending one tenth of his monthly income to educate children. Now is time to change the colonial approaches of education into 21th century system as said by Sir Abed. More to do in the field of education especially on its quality. It is always easy to start from the scratch to seed a planned approach, rather than changing an established system. So it would be good to see if Sir Abed could bring an approach for quality education, then we would have a revolutionary change in the next coming decades in Bangladesh.   Sanitation: 2 decades ago, most of villagers were not aware of sanitation that causes many diseases in the village and claimed thousands of lives every year in the very hot season. Now the situation is completely opposite – that means I can bet you that you will not find even a single open toilet walking through hundreds of villages in Bangladesh. Even my only sister died of diarrhoea/cholera at the age of 5 and it was a normal scenario then in the village. (Thanks to Premier Modi that he also launches initiative to bring social movement on sanitation in India now) Vaccination: Bangladesh has been very successful in vaccination drive and now the people are very much aware that they go by themselves to the vaccination centre on the specific date with their kids for vaccine. Thus, we have now no epidemic in a scale as we saw 2 decades ago. Family Planning and Mother’s Health: Bangladesh has been progressing to bring a social movement in these sectors and are close to a satisfactory level but still more to do in getting there. When all these kinds of things happens together in any community, then poverty would gradually be alleviated as poverty is interlined with other social-economic factors. Bangladesh has also developed a very good model of access to finance specially for the poor people to do any income-generating activities. If anyone wants to know more of any specific factors of Bangladesh reporting directly from the village ground of Bangladesh, please ask me. Mostofa Zaman		From celebrations of global education summit in Korea.... Sir Fazle Abed (BRAC - home, fans) writes: Beyond Universal Education DHAKA – As the World Education Forum meets in Incheon, South Korea, it is time to confront some unsettling facts about the state of education in the world today. More than 91% of children of primary school age are now enrolled in school, but progress on educating the remaining 9% has slowed to a near standstill. The numbers have barely moved since 2005, and girls are still disproportionately left behind. Worse, the headline figures do not describe the true depth of the problem. In poorer countries, even children privileged enough to have access to a classroom often do not receive a good education. According to UNESCO, of some 650 million primary-school-age boys and girls, an estimated 250 million will not learn to read or count, regardless of whether they have gone to school. Moreover, in many parts of the developing world, state school systems are leaving tens of millions of children behind because of poverty and discrimination. These children’s true education will be that of the soil or the streets. They will grow up working as smallholder farmers, sharecroppers, and wage laborers, and will struggle to send their own children to school It is time for the United Nations and other international bodies to move beyond a singular focus on enrollment numbers and grapple with the problem of quality in education. In September, my organization, BRAC, joined a collaborative effort, led by Hillary Clinton and former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, that puts more girls in school while addressing the problem of quality for both genders. As part of that effort, BRAC, which is already the world’s largest private secular education provider, plans to invest at least $280 million to reach 2.7 million additional girls and train 75,000 teachers by 2019. We call on others to make similar investments. All too often, poor countries’ approach to education remains stuck in the colonial era, favoring rote memorization over true learning. Schools do little to impart the life and work skills needed to prepare young people for the twenty-first-century knowledge economy. Children are awarded higher grades for writing sentences exactly like the ones they see in textbooks than for coming up with ideas of their own. This is an approach that fails to foster curiosity, self-confidence, and independent thinking. It is also especially ill-suited for children from poor backgrounds, who find much of what they are taught in the classroom to be irrelevant to their daily lives. I was pleased when, in May, a panel tasked by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon came up with a post-2015 development agenda that included quality education, not just universal access, as one of its recommendations. Setting targets based on quality rather than quantity will be difficult but not impossible. Basic outcomes of literacy and numeracy are imperative. But so are standards for social and emotional learning, which stresses the importance of recognizing our emotions, learning how to deal with them, and fostering empathy for others. These skills, known as “emotional intelligence,” are just as important for children in poor countries as they are for children in rich countries. In conflict and post-conflict environments like Afghanistan or South Sudan, a safe and peaceful future will depend on a new generation being able to heal its emotional and psychological wounds, just as it did in my native Bangladesh after our Liberation War in 1971. Even in countries not scarred by war, navigating one’s way out poverty requires emotional intelligence, in addition to problem-solving skills and critical thinking. Given recent cuts in aid for education, some might object that focusing on quality and emotional intelligence are luxuries that we cannot afford. This is not the case. In Bangladesh, we have found a way to bring quality education to the poor, with schools that cost just $36 per student per year. With community support, local women are trained to teach children to think for themselves. One-room schools operate out of rented and borrowed spaces to save costs. A majority of the students in every classroom are girls. We need to promote universal standards for education, not just universal access, for both girls and boys. A child’s potential is truly unleashed only when he or she learns to spot and seize the opportunities that his or her parents never had. This is the standard we should set, and it will be a great moment indeed when it is universally adopted. possibly related current references  New Horizon in Education: From Access to Quality May 19, 2015 — At the World Education Forum, World Bank Group Pres Kim urged development partners, policymakers to be bold and ensure all children have access to quality education and learning opportunities regardless of where they are born, their gender, or their family’s income. Read More » Jim Kim Blog: We Must Be Bold to Improve Learning Claudia Costin Blog: Raising Learning and Equity Issues at the World Education Forum Animation: Lifelong Learning and Equality of Opportunities for A

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Fazle Abed - in our view the greatest jobs creator in loiving memory- doesnt fit into the west's top down narryaives of organsiaation, Firfstly he was a servant leader from the bottom up. SEcondly he was happy to test out and improve any bottom up vilage solution - be its origin fanciscan cathplic, ,islim, gandhi hindhi, or the valrious consciousness cultired of chinese and japanese roots -all of which had the same origi if you read harvard's ezra vodel all of the 6 deepst sdgs - poverty, hunger, helath education, geneder. water-snatitaion interacted in many of abed's solutions which wree microfrancjsied across hunderds of thosuands of bangaldesh vilages and indeed any communi9ties that had been omiited from human developmegt during tguhe colonial era -eg by not having access to electrocity gtrods or other ultuluties such as running water a,ericans made misunderstanding worse when they started annual celebrations of mipcrocreditsummit which became ever pmore a pr veichle of muhhad yuuns the fact ius bangaldesh woemn em;powerment began with health and livelihood learningh opportuni9toes- only when tens of thousadns of viklagers were appliying these microfranchjsies as sustainable businesses did a service banking for the poor make sense when it comes to finance - 8 solutions to look at sir fazle design include ultra microfiance+ brac city bank mercant banking for the poor, bkash virtual bank for bottom bipllkion, global association of abnks with value; netherlands internatuonal brac fiacial office which incsldues pivota operations of releittnaces back to bangladesh- in most cases before fazle abed's death in 2019 - hi9s 50 yeras of worl nhad found partners - so for example while the ulgtra method oripginagtued with abed in bangladesh , poverty lab researchers at mit got a nobel prize for doing paire comparison tests of its efficacy. sitr fazle abed never compamied - indeed poverty lab itself was ,aimly fpounded by the toyota foundation in midle east cal'led abdul atif-  bill gates cgap/ford foundation /mit/abdul latit george soros  (jim/paul farmer) mastercard foundation jack ma jica various asian rice isntitutes begun in japan applying borlaugs work but not hibbed out of philippies called IIR netherlands international partners office ,kit- legatum -abdul latif'quadir family barefoot chinese medics and unicef james grant education laerate alumni etworks - wise and yifdan prize you can make a long list of fazle abed partenhrs and them work lout which ones could most transparently describe how the method originated and how it has been uptdated to this day as new technolgy has helped some vilagers leap forward whilst in many of teh yunus ispired cases the previous mabual networks have not tranformed wt=throuough yech with out dismal chnage of owners ..

its very sad to me how much western media and other systems deliberately spreads information even on worlds greatest job creators and livesmatter connectors like mahatma gandhi who my maternal grandfather mediated for 25 years sir fazle abed - who I was privileged to meet on 15 visits to bangaldesh in his last decade - the japan embassy in dhaka had kindly hosted 2 rememrance partopes to my father teh ecomjomost's norman macrae frecognsiing that his last great hero was sirfazl'e abed jack ma who jim ki recomended to unj as worldwide learimg mabassador the day thsi video was made but becaise of gthe hafyred capapiagns or mr gtrumps teams even the most direct infosuch as whuhan nusres foieldbook which jack has gifted ti the world isnt polutically correct for us educatirs gto share- if us teachers scared of rocking teir ;pension lipfebpat can never look beyong political myopics then usa may end up near the bootom on e verfy ssutainability frace the wprld of under 30s values most thye uase has becolme a ingterstipmhg space- it hosts two of the 3 worldowde education laureates million dilar teacher - varkey foundation djubaki the wise laufreates sheipkha moza qatar's fkirst lady yidan prize hong kong - yodan having ;prfevipusly co=fpuinded arguably chinas biggets intern et foiprm gtencent - i say arguoably because most chiense interenet ecosystem win-win witheach pther as wesll as youth-nad indeed when it comes to something lipke green foundatiosn tghe two ma's of alikbaba ad ten centg both founded the same fpoudation

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