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Unesco Survey on Progress in Achieving Edn for All,

Bangladesh ranks 107th

Mustak Hossain
Bangladesh ranks 107th among 127 countries in a worldwide survey on the progress in achieving Education for All (Efa) by 2015, a target set by the United Nations education watchdog Unesco.
The survey, released by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), ranks Pakistan 123rd, India 106th, Nepal 110th and the Maldives 20 th.
Pakistan ranked the lowest among the Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries.
Most Asian countries are still far from achieving the Efa goals, the survey report notes.
Countries with high population such as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan are ’very far from achieving the goals' with 'multiple challenges to tackle simultaneously if EFA is to be assured'it said.
The report however lauded the efforts of Bangladesh for bringing reforms in the education sector.
It says Bangladesh, which spends 2.2 percent of the GDP on education, has made impressive progress in providing access and achieving gender parity in primary education despite its limited resources.
It commends the government's commitment to introducing reforms in education although it faces a huge challenge due to high teacher absenteeism and low learninghours.
The Efa Development Index (Edi) measures the overall progress of 127 countries towards Efa goals agreed upon at the World Education Forum in Senegal in 2000: universal pri-
mary education, adult literacy, education quality and gender parity.
"Overcrowded classes, poorly qualified teachers and ill-equipped schools with scant learning materials remain an all too familiar picture in many countries," said Unesco Director General Koichiro Matsuura.
To date, there are 103.5 million out-of-school children worldwide, and the Unesco says there has been no substantial progress to reduce this number to achieve Efa goals by 2015.
Governments should expand basic education and also ensure that students stay in school long enough to acquire the knowledge they need in a rapidly changing world. The report said. "(But) assessment shows that this is not happening in many countries."