What makes a quality education?
A conventional definition of quality includes literacy, numeracy and life skills, and is directly linked to such critical components as teachers, content, methodologies, curriculum, examination systems, policy, planning, and management and administration. Some of the targets for SDG 4 include ensuring that children have access to pre-primary education, free primary and secondary education, and options for affordable technical, vocational, and higher education options. The most effective means of achieving sustainable global development is solely quality education.
Everyone has a role to play in improving the quality of education to meet the ambitions of the Agenda 2030. Governments, teachers, schools have a vanguard role to play, along with parents and students themselves. The process starts by pointing out the gaps in high quality and equitable education. This huge gap has created a learning crisis in global education which in turn is widening social gaps as well.
Education is about more than literacy and numeracy – it is also about citizenry.
How to attain the goal of quality education:
1. The process can start with ensuring the enrollment and attendance at the schools.
2. Significant progress is possible when countries prioritize the concept of learning for all.
3. To help resolve the direct crisis of education in the developing countries, concrete and strict policies should be recommended by the policymakers.
4. Every stakeholder in the education sector needs to work towards the implementation of these policies.
5. The educational framework for action needs to be introduced strictly and to review functions to catalyze and monitor progress.
6. There is an urgent need of educational reforms and persistence as well.
