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UNESCO and Education Throughout the World
Published by UNESCO in 1985, 88 pages. Paperback (S8295R)
From the opening page: This second half of the twentieth century will be noted for its recognition of education as a fundamental right of every individual. At the same time, education is universally acknowledged to be a major factor of economic progress and a pre-condition of social change. This worldwide realization has gone hand in hand with the remarkable expansion that education has enjoyed everywhere during the past twenty years. Between 1960 and 1982, enrolments of pupils and students at the different grades almost doubled, rising from 455 to 930 million. This growth has been particularly marked at the secondary and higher levels: the number of secondary school students has increased slightly more than two and a half times, rising from 69 million in 1960 to 180 million in 1980, while that of students enrolled in higher education almost quadrupled, swelling froin 13.2 million to over 47 million.
This unprecedented expansion of education throughout the world has enabled tens of millions of individuals who would otherwise have been deprived of the opportunity, and indeed whole new sectors of the population, to gain access to knowledge, thereby raising the general level of education within their societies. This then contributes to the creation of the essential bases for improving individual living conditions and promoting social, economic and cultural progress. Thus the expansion of education represents a major aspect of the thorough-going transformations which are taking place in the present-day world and is a phenomenon whose long-term impact will be considerable.
Such progress has not been achieved without mobilizing substantial material, financial and human resources. Viewed globally, the percentage of created wealth, measured in terms of the portion out of the Gross National Product that is devoted to education, has risen from 3.7 in 1960 to 5.7 per cent in 1980. In the developing countries alone, the number of teachers rose from under 5 million in 1960 to nearly 15 million in 1980.
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