Delhi Bus Schools: taking the classroom to kids |
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Getting kids into school is about more than just making it free, and telling kids to go.
As we work towards the achievement of the second millennium development goal, we’re going to need to find more innovative ways to enable the poorest, most marginalised and most vulnerable children to learn to read and write – like this above example.
Each context is going to be different, which means that what works in one place won’t necessarily work in others. But, what we do know is that to make education work for kids (as we’ve talked about before), there are a couple of things we need to focus on:
- It’s about learning, not attendance. It’s easy just to think that if we get all kids into school, the learning will take care of itself. It doesn’t. Our aid money often goes to get numbers into school, which is a great start, but it needs to do more to ensure that the kids who turn up really learn, and that the curriculum they learn is relevant to their lives.
- Wanted: More teachers. As we’ve made education free in more countries and more kids turn up, teachers have been overwhelmed, and are often teaching huge classes. Oxfam think that to achieve the education millennium development goal with reasonable class sizes, we need an extra 15 million teachers worldwide.
- Filling the funding gap. Most of the money to get kids into school comes locally, with the international community agreeing to chip in the rest through the Education for All Fast Track Initiative. But right now, donors are an estimated $16 billion a year short of what will be needed to get all kids into school.
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