Desmond Bermingham

 
Desmond Bermingham

Desmond Bermingham is a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Development.

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Putting the ‘Fast’ Back into the Education Fast Track…

February 16, 2010

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2010 is supposed to be the ‘Year of Education’. The Global Campaign for Education and the 1-Goal Campaign are lobbying soccer supporters around the world to sign a petition pressuring government leaders to provide a good quality education to all children and adults by 2015. Stars and international leaders have already committed themselves to joining an event on the eve of the World Cup in South Africa in June to bring attention to the shameful fact that more than 70 million children worldwide still do not have the chance even to go to primary school. Time is running out. If we are going to achieve the target of ensuring that every child completes primary school by 2015, we need to provide places for those children THIS YEAR. Read More…

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G8 in Italy Should Launch Global Fund for Education

July 6, 2009

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This post also appeared on the Huffington Post on July 7, 2009.

girls_at_schoolLeaders of the worlds’ eight richest countries gather this week in Italy for the annual G8 summit. Crowding their agenda will be the financial crisis, climate change, and food security. Education should be high on the agenda, too. Others agree with me: three prominent moral leaders have written to the G8 urging them live up to their prior promises to ensure that every girl and boy has a chance for an education. Read More…

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Accelerating the Education for All—Fast Track Initiative

April 20, 2009

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Education for All–Fast Track InitiativeDonors, multilateral agencies, recipient countries, and NGOs supporting the Education for All–Fast Track Initiative (FTI) gather in Copenhagen this week for the 2009 FTI Partnership meeting. Participants will consider the preliminary findings of an independent evaluation team and seek solutions to the continuing challenges facing the FTI. Read More…

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Gordon Brown Calls for America and Britain to Work Together on Global Education

March 4, 2009

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In an address to the U.S. Congress today, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged that the United States and United Kingdom work together on global education.

And let us not forget the poorest. As we strive to spread the values of peace, political liberty, and the hope for better lives across the world, perhaps the greatest gift our generation could give to the future, the gift of America and Britain to the world could be, for every child in every country of the world, the chance millions do not have today; the chance to go to school.

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