HOMEWORK WEEK!

The Universal Primary Education Campaign is represented through its outstanding actions around the world. Homework week being no exception. Our Global Education Challenge is planned around a central theme, 'Homework'. Every child has the right to be able to be given a primary education and have the opportunity to do homework. The Global Education Challenge and Homework Week engages primary school children to learn about the universal education issues developing countries face. With their help each activity and lesson that is constructed will bring its own meaning and local uniqueness to the campaign. Bringing the world one step closer to understanding the importance of reaching our target in 2015. For everyone involved, it is a remarkable opportunity to raise awareness and bring about social change. But it is also a chance for everyone to urge our leaders to keep their promise for universal primary education for girls and boys by 2015. So this September be sure to get involved in HOMEWORK WEEK!

Have you done your homework?

Global Education Challenge: Do Your Homework

Fostering and providing a universal yearning for learning

The Universal Global Challenge is the most intensive part of the Universal Primary Education Campaign’s agenda. Teaming up with educational associations, teachers, primary school children and their parents we prepare up to 12 months in advance so that Homework Week has maximum impact on our leaders and no opportunity is lost. Homework Week will take place in September on the anniversary of the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, where Millennium Declaration was adopted by 189 nations and signed by 147 heads of state and governments. Every year Homework Week will be hosted, targeting the neediest countries of that year.
Our plan is to partner every school in need with a well developed school from a sustainable country. Create an innovative learning activity that will be exchanged from one school to another during Homework Week. Each school that registers will receive a program starter pack provide by the Universal Primary Education Campaign. The pack includes all the resources and material to get started on your books and lesson plans ready for Homework Week!

To register and sign up for ‘Do Your Homework’ to receive a program starter pack please:
· Send us an email through our blog, requesting information
· Register online through our website
· Comment or leave us a Wall Post on Facebook
· Write through to our Admin Team
· Follow our Twitter updates

Celebrity Supporter of the Week: Nelson Mandela

"Children of the world, now is the time for your generation to stand side by side together. Together, you can be the generation that sees every child get the education that is their right. World leaders have promised this and you must make sure they keep to it by joining together to speak with one voice. You are the future of this world and can change it for the better. You can make your leaders make their promises happen."

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DON'T FORGET TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK!

Celebrity Supporter of the Week: Queen Rania of Jordan

"Education for All is not a suggestion, it is a global imperative. We owe it to the world's waiting girls and boys to give their cause our all."

Since 2000...

Compulsory education laws now exist in 95% of 203 countries and territories. The twenty-three countries that required legal provision for compulsory education in 2000 have since established them. · Between 1999 and 2005 the global net enrolment ration increased by 4% [from previous 83%]).Most rapidly participation levels in sub-Saharan Africa [23%] and South and West Asian [11%] · Public expenditure on education increased by over 5% annually in sub-Saharan Africa and South and west Asia, the two regions farthest from achieving the universal primary education goals according to the EFA (UNESCO, 2007; pp.).
75 million children are still not enrolled in primary schoolOver a third of children withdraw before completing a full primary education and many more leave failing to learn basic skills;There is a global shortage of teachers: 18 million teachers need to be trained and recruited by 2015

The 'Dream' ... Halfway there!

In 2000, governments around the globe pledged “Education for All” to be achieved by 2015. Approaching the half way mark it is evident that this goal is achievable. Since 2000 developments of primary school enrolment rose from 647 million to 688 million worldwide between 1999 and 2005, increasing by 36% in sub-Saharan Africa and 22% in South and West Asia (UNESCO, 2007; pp 2).
But despite the importance of education and two of the eight MDGs addressing education, the action required has not been achieved completely. Follow UPEC 2015 to help us achieve the 'dream'

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS....

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight goals to be achieved that respond to the world's main development challenges. The Millennium Development Goals are drawn from the actions and targets contained in the Millennium Declaration that was adotped by 189 nations and signed by 147 heads of state and governments during the Millennuim Summit in September 2000.

Our goal is to "ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling."