The idea is that each country prepares a national plan setting out its exact teacher needs and school-building and financing requirements for achieving this 2015 target of universal schooling.

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We are 1.7 million teachers short of what we need to achieve universal primary schooling by 2015.

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Ms Bachelet has started to build new day-care centres and has promised universal nursery schooling by the end of her four-year term, which will help mothers who want to work.

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Considerable progress has been made in achieving universal access to primary and secondary schooling across racial and ethnic lines.

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Primary schooling is now almost universal, but many teachers are ill-trained.

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The education minister, Kapil Sibal, has promised an array of improvements, including universal primary education, partly provided for through private schooling.

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One third of Commonwealth countries have yet to achieve universal primary education and gender parity, and 27 million Commonwealth children do not currently receive schooling.

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Each community organises the schooling for its own children, setting a separate curriculum for subjects as contentious as history and as universal as mathematics.

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