The Global Education Summit in London

The Global Education Summit is a significant international event focused on addressing global education challenges and promoting investment in education worldwide. It brings together leaders, policymakers, philanthropists, educators, and other stakeholders from across the globe to discuss and strategize ways to improve education systems and ensure inclusive and quality education for all.

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The Global Education Summit is a significant international event focused on addressing global education challenges and promoting investment in education worldwide. It brings together leaders, policymakers, philanthropists, educators, and other stakeholders from across the globe to discuss and strategize ways to improve education systems and ensure inclusive and quality education for all.

The summit provides a platform for participants to share ideas, experiences, and best practices to address key issues such as access to education, quality of education, gender equality in education, skills development, and education financing. It aims to mobilize political and financial commitments to support education initiatives and accelerate progress towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), which is to ensure inclusive and quality education for all by 2030.

Held in London, the Global Education Summit offers a conducive environment for networking, collaboration, and forging partnerships among governments, international organizations, civil society organizations, and the private sector. The event typically includes plenary sessions, panel discussions, interactive workshops, and presentations by renowned speakers and experts in the field of education.

Through the Global Partnership for Education, world leaders pledge more than $4bn (£2.9bn) to support schools.

The Global Partnership for Education distributes funding in more than 90 poorer countries, wanted to raise $5bn (£3.6bn) to build an extra 88 million school locations and finance 175 million children to learn In the next five years.

The summit hosted by the UK and Kenya, pledges were made, £595m from the European Union, £430m from the Uk, £300m from Norway, £173m from Canada, and £218m over three years from the United States

Julia Gillard, former Australian prime minister and chair of the education aid organization said the pandemic had disrupted education in all countries - but the impact of closing schools had been much worse in poorer countries where many families lacked access at home to internet connections or electricity. 

Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai told the summit, girls, in particular, faced an "education crisis". She stated the importance of investing in education for girls in countries where they had fewer opportunities "just because of their gender".

"The world is facing a girls' education crisis," the education campaigner said,  more than 130 million out of school around the world and millions more at risk of not returning after the pandemic.

"Their futures are worth fighting for," she told the summit.

Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, told the conference the fundraising event could "avert an education catastrophe"

"Education is the best equalizer," says Angel Mbuthia, a Kenyan campaigner for access to education, who is supporting the global education summit.

The 26-year-old student leader, currently the secretary for gender at the All Africa Students' Union, says education provides a "ripple effect in giving solutions to our most pressing problems".

For instance, improving health education is more cost-effective than having to treat serious illnesses.

Education is vital for the advancement of our society.

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