Education International's Antonia Wulff explains that the Sustainable Development Goal 4 could be summarised as more education of a better quality for all, and that quality and equity must be at the centre of the 2030 Agenda.
Ministers, teacher unions and education leaders meeting at the World Summit on Teachers in Chile have adopted the Santiago Consensus , a comprehensive framework that commits governments to address the global shortage of 50 million teachers through concrete policy action.
Historic Santiago Consensus puts teachers at heart of education transformation
The expert group in charge of the SDG indicators rejected the proposed measurement strategy for target 4.7 on education for sustainable development, human rights and global citizenship. A dramatic turn in the SDGs serial but is it really as disastrous as it seems? And what does this mean in practice?
SDG4 & education for sustainable development: Why we should celebrate an apparent failure? By Antonia Wulff