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| The world needs to step up its efforts to tackle the crisis of 121 million children, particularly girls, who receive no formal schooling, Julia Gillard, the former Australian prime minister, has warned. | The world needs to step up its efforts to tackle the crisis of 121 million children, particularly girls, who receive no formal schooling, Julia Gillard, the former Australian prime minister, has warned. |
| In advance of a major education summit in Norway, Gillard said the world is at a pivotal moment when it comes to tackling millions of children growing up without basic schooling in much the same way as the need to address global health issues reached a tipping point in the early 2000s. | In advance of a major education summit in Norway, Gillard said the world is at a pivotal moment when it comes to tackling millions of children growing up without basic schooling in much the same way as the need to address global health issues reached a tipping point in the early 2000s. |
| She said it was not just a moral imperative to give everyone the right to go to school but better educated parents would help prevent infant mortality and lift people out of poverty. | She said it was not just a moral imperative to give everyone the right to go to school but better educated parents would help prevent infant mortality and lift people out of poverty. |
| “The poorest girls will get there a full 70 years after the richest boys. The gap is startling,” she said. “There is a moral, rights-based reason why we’ve got to educate every girl, but there’s also a practical development outcomes if we do educate girls. | “The poorest girls will get there a full 70 years after the richest boys. The gap is startling,” she said. “There is a moral, rights-based reason why we’ve got to educate every girl, but there’s also a practical development outcomes if we do educate girls. |
| “We know that if we educated every girl, we would see infant deaths plummet by 3 million. We know that if women are educated children are more likely to survive childhood, more likely to be vaccinated, that economies grow because women have got the capability to work and direct that financing back to their families. Educating girls is win, win, win all round.” | “We know that if we educated every girl, we would see infant deaths plummet by 3 million. We know that if women are educated children are more likely to survive childhood, more likely to be vaccinated, that economies grow because women have got the capability to work and direct that financing back to their families. Educating girls is win, win, win all round.” |
| Nine in 10 school-age children around the world get a primary education but there are still about 121 million children of primary and lower secondary age who are not in school. Of the 58 million not in primary school, about 31 million are girls. | Nine in 10 school-age children around the world get a primary education but there are still about 121 million children of primary and lower secondary age who are not in school. Of the 58 million not in primary school, about 31 million are girls. |
| Gillard, who is chair of the board of the Global Partnership for Education, said there was a lot of positive energy around the need for more international cooperation on education for millions of unschooled children, led by people such as Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Gordon Brown, who is now the UN special envoy on education. | Gillard, who is chair of the board of the Global Partnership for Education, said there was a lot of positive energy around the need for more international cooperation on education for millions of unschooled children, led by people such as Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Gordon Brown, who is now the UN special envoy on education. |
| “Born of tragedy, there has been a far greater focus by leaders on girls’ education – the shooting of Malala Yousafzai (who will attended the summit) and the dreadful circumstances of the Nigerian schoolgirls – has galvanised the world community.” | “Born of tragedy, there has been a far greater focus by leaders on girls’ education – the shooting of Malala Yousafzai (who will attended the summit) and the dreadful circumstances of the Nigerian schoolgirls – has galvanised the world community.” |
| Speaking to the Guardian before the Oslo Summit on Education for Development, Gillard said she was “convinced this is an important moment for everyone to take a big step up”, with discussions on girls’ education, and how to provide emergency schooling for children fleeing conflict zones like Syria. They will also talk about a new financing commission to raise money from donors to leverage national education budgets. | Speaking to the Guardian before the Oslo Summit on Education for Development, Gillard said she was “convinced this is an important moment for everyone to take a big step up”, with discussions on girls’ education, and how to provide emergency schooling for children fleeing conflict zones like Syria. They will also talk about a new financing commission to raise money from donors to leverage national education budgets. |
| Gillard, who was prime minister of Australia for three years before being ousted by her predecessor Kevin Rudd in 2013, said her biggest passion is fighting for better education throughout the world now that she is retired from politics. | Gillard, who was prime minister of Australia for three years before being ousted by her predecessor Kevin Rudd in 2013, said her biggest passion is fighting for better education throughout the world now that she is retired from politics. |
| “The motivating force throughtout my life and work in politics has been access to education and opportunity so I find it truly heartbreaking that we can look at our world and contemplate that it could be 100 years before girls get basic education, let alone full access to education,” she said. | “The motivating force throughtout my life and work in politics has been access to education and opportunity so I find it truly heartbreaking that we can look at our world and contemplate that it could be 100 years before girls get basic education, let alone full access to education,” she said. |
| As the first female prime minister of Australia, Gillard gained renown for her so-called “misogyny speech”, taking now-prime minister Tony Abbott to task over sexist attitudes. | As the first female prime minister of Australia, Gillard gained renown for her so-called “misogyny speech”, taking now-prime minister Tony Abbott to task over sexist attitudes. |
| Having written a book about her experiences in politics, she has spoken in the last three weeks on a visit to the UK about how women need to call out sexism when they encounter it and argued they must not let it dissuade them from putting themselves forward, especially in male-dominated environments. | Having written a book about her experiences in politics, she has spoken in the last three weeks on a visit to the UK about how women need to call out sexism when they encounter it and argued they must not let it dissuade them from putting themselves forward, especially in male-dominated environments. |
| Gillard said fighting for better education for girls is one of the central battles for feminism. “We know at current rate of change it won’t be until the start of the next century that the first cohort of sub-Saharan girls universally get to go to primary school and 100 years is far too long to wait,” Gillard said. | Gillard said fighting for better education for girls is one of the central battles for feminism. “We know at current rate of change it won’t be until the start of the next century that the first cohort of sub-Saharan girls universally get to go to primary school and 100 years is far too long to wait,” Gillard said. |