TESON organized a panel discussion on Learning Generation Report and Global Learning Crisis on 14th July 2017.
Panel Discussion: The Learning Generation Report and a Global Learning Crisis.
Today, 263 million children and young people are out of school, and the number of primary-school aged children not in school is increasing. For those children who are in school, many are not actually learning. In low- and middle-income countries, only half of primary-school aged children and little more than a quarter of secondary-school aged children are learning basic primary- and secondary-level skills. If current trends continue, over three-quarters of a billion young people in low- and middle-income countries will be off-track to gain basic secondary skills, and 1.5 billion adults will have only a primary education by 2030. The growing skills gap will stunt economic growth around the world, and threatens to have far-reaching social and political repercussions.
This is an excerpt from The Learning Generation Report – 2016, a report published by the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. The report has indicated a global learning crisis in education and the students from low-income countries will have a great challenge to compete in the global market if the current situation prevails. The report calls for a broader alliance among key stakeholders and recommends four transformations; a) there is effective and result-oriented education system in place, b) innovative educational practices are encouraged, c) investment in education is ensured, and d) education reaches to everyone including the marginalized and disadvantaged. Since the publication of this report, countries around the world have initiated various reform programs and the discourse on the investment in education has been at the fore front of their development agenda.
In order to share the observations of the findings of the report and foster the collaboration among the government, academics, development partners and civil society, Teacher Educators’ Society Nepal (TESON) organized a panel discussion on Friday July 14, 2017, at Siddhartha Cottage, Dhobighat, Lalitpur. The panelists included Dr. Basu Dev Kafle, Professor of Inclusive Education, Tribhuvan University (TU); Dr. Mahesh Parajuli, Professor of Education, Dean, KUSOED, Kathmandu University (KU); Dr. Hari Lamsal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Education; and Dr. Sumon Kamal Tuladhar – Consultant on Youth Research and Eminent Education Expert. About 200 TESON members, teacher education practitioners and journalists participated in the event.
