Girls Education in the Commonwealth

We are seeing more children in school throughout the world but 262 million are not. 617 million which is more than half the school-age population worldwide, have not reached the minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics.

Many of our Commonwealth countries have made some steady progress towards gender improvements in education as we have seen girls out-perform boys in a number of countries. It is clear that there must be more opportunities in education for both girls and boys. Nonetheless, girls are at a significant disadvantage in a number of countries and there…