Millions of world's children still lack access to education

Despite progress toward the international community's goal of universal primary education by 2015, millions of children are still without schools around the world, according to a recent report.

Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All , released last month by UNICEF and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, found that 58 million children between the ages of 6 and 11 still lack access to education, while 63 million lower secondary school-age adolescents are also out of school.

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Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia have the highest numbers of out-of-school children. As of 2012, 32.7 million primary school-age children and 22 million lower secondary school-age adolescents lack access to education in sub-Saharan Africa. In South Asia, 9.9 million primary school-age children and 26.3 adolescents remain out of school. Read more...

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