EDUCATION FOR ALL

THE MALAYSIAN
CONTEXT
EDUCATION FOR ALL (EFA)
What is Education for All ?
Education for all is a movement established in
1990 at the World Conference on Education for
All in Jomtien, Thailand. Delegates from 155
countries and representatives from some 150
organizations pledged to provide primary
education for all children and massively
reduce adult illiteracy by the end of the
decade.
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What is Education For All ?

The World Education Forum 2000 in Dakar,

Senegal, attended by 1,100 participants
from 164 countries adopted the Dakar
Framework for Action: Meeting Our
Collective Commitments and pledged to
commit to achieving education for all by
the year 2015, and reaffirming the goals of
Jomtiem
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Who are involved in Education For All ?
Those involved in EFA ranges from
teachers to prime ministers,
academics to policymakers, non-
governmental bodies to the heads of
major international organizations
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Why Education For All ?
In the least developed countries taken
together, a little over half reached grade
five and many drop out after the first or
second grade. Despite progress in
actual numbers, illiteracy rates remain
too high: at least 875 million adults
remain illiterate, of which 63.8 per cent
are women. (World Education Forum 2000)
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Why Education For All ?
EFA commits governments to achieve quality
basic education for all by 2015 or earlier, with
particular emphasis on girls' education, and
includes a pledge from donor countries and
institutions that "no country seriously
committed to basic education will be thwarted
in the achievement of this goal by lack of
resources". (World Education Forum 2000)
EDUCATION FOR ALL - Dakar Goals

What are the Dakar goals ?

EDUCATION FOR ALL - DAKAR GOALS
Goal 1
Expand early childhood care and education

• Expanding and improving comprehensive

early childhood care and education,
especially for the most vulnerable and
disadvantaged children
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Goal 2
Provide free and compulsory primary
education for all

• Ensuring that by 2015 all children,

particularly girls, children in difficult
circumstances and those belonging to
ethnic minorities, have access to and
complete free and compulsory primary
education of good quality
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Goal 3
Promote learning and skills for young
people and adults

• Ensuring that the learning needs of all

young people and adults are met through
equitable access to appropriate learning
and life skills programmes
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Goal 4
Increase adult literacy by 50 percent

• Achieving a 50 per cent improvement in

levels of adult literacy by 2015, especially
for women, and equitable access to basic
and continuing education for all adults
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Goal 5
Achieve gender parity by 2005 & equality by
2015

• Eliminating gender disparities in primary

and secondary education by 2005, and
achieving gender equality in education by
2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full
and equal access to and achievement in
basic education of good quality
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Goal 6
Enhance educational quality

• Improving all aspects of the quality of

education and ensuring excellence of all
so that recognised and measurable
learning outcomes are achieved by all,
especially in literacy, numeracy and
essential life skills