World Education Day: UNESCO calls for more investment, innovation

has called for better support to teachers and increased financing for education, so as to reduce loss of learning and increasing school dropouts worsened by the coronavirus pandemic., UNESCO, in a statement, said except there are increased efforts, dropout will continue to rise and will ultimately reverse the progresses made towards all the Sustainable Development Goals.

“Education is key to charting the course towards more justice and sustainability, but it is failing millions of children, youth and adults, increasing their exposure to poverty, violence and exploitation. More than 50 per cent of students who took part in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and qualified for admission in the past year might not secure admission as tertiary institutions lament the backlog of admitted students yet to be admitted from the 2020 UTME.

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