25 Oct 2011

UNESCO / SECONDARY EDUCATION

A new UN report says that the global demand for secondary education has risen exponentially, which adds that governments, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are having a hard time keeping up and many children are being left out. UNTV / FILE

Posted at: October 25, 2011 3:23 pm

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STORY: UNESCO / SECONDARY EDUCATION
TRT: 2.46
SOURCE: UNTV / UNICEF 
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 25 OCTOBER 2011 NEW YORK CITY / FILE

SHOTLIST:

UNTV - RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations headquarters

UNTV - 25 OCTOBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, panel 
3. Cutaway, press
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Albert Motivans, Head of Education and Data Analysis, UNESCO Institute for Statistics:
"In developing countries we see they're not only are more children in developing school but the coverage of children in secondary school is greater. They're opening up access to a wider segment of the population."

FILE – UNICEF - 15 JANUARY 2011, CENTRAL SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN Med

5. Wide shot, children playing in schoolyard
6. Wide shot, children playing in schoolyard
7. Close up, Noor opens closet doors
8. Pan right, blackboard

UNTV - 25 OCTOBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY

9. SOUNDBITE (English) Albert Motivans, Head of Education and Data Analysis, UNESCO Institute for Statistics:
10. "Since 2005, there is actually a slowdown of enrollments globally, this is true of primary education as well. And part of it we think is due to the difficulty related to difficulty in giving access to the last ten percent of children where there is more likely to be issues around remote populations."

FILE – UNICEF -AUGUST 2011, DADAAB KENYA

11. Med shot, door and lock into classroom
12. Wide shot, classroom from back
13. Med shot, classroom from back
14. Close up, boys writing on books
15. Med shot, girl in pink writing in book

UNTV - 25 OCTOBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Albert Motivans, Head of Education and Data Analysis, UNESCO Institute for Statistics:
"While lower secondary education was compulsory in 80 percent of all countries that reported data and this is about 194 countries, almost one third of the world's children are where lower secondary education is formally considered compulsory, through constitutional law, through other legislation, but where participation is not very high. So the commitment to compulsory education at the scondary level in not enforced."

FILE – UNICEF - 28 MARCH 2011, DOUGOUBA, MALI

17. Various shot, teacher instructing children in classroom

UNTV - 25 OCTOBER 2011, NEW YORK CITY  
 
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Albert Motivans, Head of Education and Data Analysis, UNESCO Institute for Statistics:
"What we see so far from a lot of the international student  assessments are that middle income countries low income countries, the results is the quality is simply not matching the high income countries."

FILE – UNICEF  -  APRIL 2011, BUZI DISTRICT, MOZAMBIQUE

19. Close up, school sign
20. Various shots, inside classroom
21. Various shots, children singing outside the class with teacher

FILE – UNICEF - 23 AUGUST 2011, MOGADISHU, SOMALIA

22. Close up, young students in class
23. Med shot, teacher in classroom with students
24. Close up, student

STORYLINE:

The global demand for secondary education has risen exponentially, says a new United Nations report, which adds that governments, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are having a hard time keeping up and many children are being left out.

The 2011 Global Education Digest, released today by the InsAtitute for Statistics of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), says there are only enough seats for 36 per cent of children who want to enrol in secondary education in sub-Saharan Africa.

Globally, secondary schools have been accommodating almost 100 million more students each decade, with the total number growing by 60 per cent between 1990 and 2009, says to UNESCO. With more and more children attending and completing primary-level education, demand for places in secondary education has risen by leaps and bounds.

Yet, the agency adds, a child in the last grade of primary school only has at best a 75 per cent chance of making the transition to lower secondary school in about 20 countries, the majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. The region also has a shortage of secondary school teachers.

At the same time, sub-Saharan Africa has made the greatest gains of all regions, with gross enrolment ratios rising from 28 per cent to 43 per cent for lower secondary and from 20 per cent to 27 per cent for upper secondary education between 1999 and 2009.

Girls are the first to suffer from this inequality, the report says. In sub-Saharan Africa, the enrolment ratio for girls in lower secondary education is 39 per cent compared to 48 per cent for boys.

Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in which the gender disparities against girls are getting worse at the upper secondary level, with 8 million boys enrolled compared to only 6 million girls, according to the report.

Girls also face significant barriers in South and West Asia, although the situation is improving. About 35 million girls were enrolled in lower secondary education in 2009, with the female gross enrolment ratio reaching 69 per cent compared to 53 per cent in 1999.

The prospects for girls have been improving in other regions such as East Asia and the Pacific, where the lower secondary gross enrolment ratio for girls grew from 75 per cent to 91 per cent between 1999 and 2009.

Significant improvements have also been made in the Arab States, with the female gross enrolment ratio for lower secondary education rising from 67 per cent to 82 per cent over the same period.

Across the region, girls are also more likely than boys to complete lower secondary education in three-quarters of countries with available data. However, challenges remain at the upper secondary level, where there are enough school places for just 47 per cent of girls and 49 per cent of boys of upper secondary school age to enrol, states the report.