World Education Forum 2015
(WEF)
19-22 May 2015, Incheon, Republic of Korea
Nearly a quarter century ago, the Education for All (EFA) movement was born
in Jomtien, Thailand. Delegates from around the world signed the Declaration
on Education for All, an historic commitment to meet the basic learning needs
of all by universalizing primary education and slashing illiteracy rates.
Ten years later, in 2000, the six EFA goals, covering all aspects of basic
education from early learning and adult literacy to education quality, were
formalized at the World Education Forum in Dakar and a deadline to reach
those targets of 2015 was set.
Since 2000, the year 2015 has emerged as the horizon toward which the world
projects its aspirations to achieve the Education for All and Millennium
Development Goals. While accelerating efforts to achieve these goals, the
United Nations has been mobilizing the world to define the post-2015
development agenda. In this process, UNESCO and UNICEF have been
working with a wide array of stakeholders to reflect on education beyond 2015.
The consultations so far have indicated that the direction of the post-2015
education agenda is to be anchored in a lifelong and sector-wide perspective,
addressing access and results, equity and quality for all children, youth and
adults - from early childhood care and education to higher education and adult
learning, and in formal, non-formal and informal learning. UNESCOs General
Conference, which met in November 2013, also committed itself to promote an
overarching goal for education based upon key principles of access, equity,
quality, in the perspective of lifelong learning as part of the future global
development agenda.
World Education Forum 2015
At the World Education Forum (Dakar, Senegal) in 2000, the international
community affirmed their commitment to achieving Education for All (EFA) by
2015 through the adoption of the Dakar Framework for Action.
UNESCO, as the global lead coordinating agency for EFA, will organize the
World Education Forum 2015 (WEF 2015) in order to take stock of how well
countries have delivered on their commitments to EFA, to reach agreement on a
new education agenda and to adopt a global framework for action for the years
to
come.
The outcomes of the Forum will be promoted by all stakeholders as an agreed
position on education and as part of the global development agenda post-2015
to be adopted at the United Nations Summit meeting in September 2015.
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Category 4- International Congress
19.05.2015 12:00 local time
22.05.2015 12:00 local time
Detzel, Sabine
UNESCO
Sang Eun Jung, [Link]@[Link]
Republic of Korea
Incheon
Convension center : Songdo Convensia
123, Central-ro (6-1 Songdo-dong), Yeonsu-gu.
English, French, Spanish, Arabic
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