Prioritizing quality early childhood education

UNICEF’s first global report on pre-primary education presents a comprehensive analysis of the status of early childhood education worldwide was published in 2019. Then it got interrupted by the Pandemic.

The report outlines a set of practical recommendations for governments and partners to make quality pre-primary education universal and routine. Noting that at least 175 million children – 50 per cent of the world’s pre-primary-age population – are not enrolled in pre-primary programs, the report urges governments to commit at least 10 per cent of their national education budgets to scale them up. Such funding should be invested in pre-primary teachers, quality standards and equitable expansion, the report states.

The report is 164 pages long, and it focuses on universal pre-primary education, which StoryBee strives to help solve the issue by creating this free fun learning content platform.

The report is downable here: https://www.unicef.org/reports/a-world-ready-to-learn-2019