According to some thirty experts from around the world including researchers, educators, educational planners, representatives of United Nations Agencies and selected overnment officials, schools in many parts of the world are not responding adequately to the needs of their students.

Despite being in school, the report says, a large majority of learners do not acquire even minimal levels of learning and come out of school unprepared to integrate with the rapidly changing world. Factors such as poverty and malnutrition negatively affect the psychosocial and cognitive development of the child. In addition, classes continue to be too large, there is a constant lack of educational materials, teachers are not appropriately trained, curricula are not well adapted to the different multicultural contexts, schools are poorly supervised, and many children are still relegated to environments that discourage learning.

All of these factors together have resulted in a negative impact on student performance and learning achievement levels. This meeting was the fi rst step of a series of regional meetings that are being organized with the objective of identifying country priority needs and lessons learned from effective practices, and to discuss directions, orientations and policy guidelines to enhance learning and learning outcomes from early childhood through secondary education. Source:UNESCO.org

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