Education, Skills and Learning

Getting girls into schools is only the start of closing the education gap

Pre-university students pose for a photo during the first day of class for the 2015-2016 course in downtown Havana, September 1, 2015. Universal free education is one of the pillars of the socialist society built in Cuba since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini  - GF10000189331

Getting girls into classrooms remains a hugely important task in the world's poorest countries. Image: REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Manos Antoninis
Director, Global Education Monitoring report, UNESCO
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