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The six goals of Education for All (EFA) have become UNESCO’s overriding priority in education

  

Expand early childhood care and education

The goal calls for better and more possibilities to support young children, and their families and communities, in all the areas where the child is growing – physically, emotionally, socially and intellectually More
   
Provide free and compulsory primary education for all

Therefore this goal sets the objective of seeing that all children – girls as well as boys – go to school and finish primary education. More
   
Promote learning and life skills for young people and adults

This goal places the emphasis on the learning needs of young people and adults in the context of lifelong learning. More
   
Increase adult literacy by 50 per cent

This goal calls for a certain level of improvement in adult literacy by 2015 – it says that it should be 50 per cent better than it was in 2000. More
   
Achieve gender parity by 2005, gender equality by 2015

This goal calls for an equal number of girls and boys to be enrolled in primary and secondary school by 2005 – this is what gender parity means. More
   
Improve the quality of education

This goal calls for improvement in the quality of education in all its aspects, aiming for a situation where people can achieve excellence. More

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