Aspiration
#6
Aspiration 6: Every child benefits fully from quality education.
By 2020, States –
• should have designed and implemented comprehensive early childhood care and
development policies, focused on child development, socialisation and learning
from birth to entry into primary school;
• should have enacted legislation and ensured an environment conducive to the
pursuit of education by girls;
• should have eliminated all gender disparities in education and ensured equal
access to girls at all levels of education;
• should have in place a policy for effective free and compulsory primary, and free
secondary education;
• should have substantially increased the number of young persons with relevant
skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent work and
entrepreneurship;
• should have ensured that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed
to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education
for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender
equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship
and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable
development;
• should have built and upgraded education facilities that are child-, disabilityand gender-sensitive and that provide a safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective
learning environment for all;
• should have put in place a legal framework to regulate and monitor educational
services provided by non-State institutions;
• should have substantially increased the supply of qualified teachers, including
through international co-operation for teacher training in developing countries;
• should have promoted the use of African languages as medium of instruction as
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