UN goals to focus on quality education for children: Unicef

22-09-2015 Tue 09:29 | International | IANS

United Nations, Sep 22: With more than 200 million children unable to read and write globally, the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will focus on access to quality education, the executive director of Unicef has said. "There are 250 million children around the world of fourth and fifth grade age who can not read, write or do numbers," Xinhua news agency quoted Anthony Lake as saying on Monday. The new SDGs -- a set of 17 economic, social and environmental goals expected to be adopted by world leaders here on Friday -- go beyond the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) -- because they are about the quality of education and not just whether or not kids are in school, said Lake. MDGs are a set of eight anti-poverty targets to be reached by the end of 2015.

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