In the Media

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• Gordon Brown calls for Global Fund for Education
  Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called for the creation of a worldwide fund to combat a "hidden and silent emergency in education".
  The Independent, 25 January 2012
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/gordon-brown-calls-for-global-fund-for-education-6294236.html

• Gordon Brown calls for global fund for education target
  Gordon Brown is making an impassioned call for the international community to make education a higher priority - and to make a co-ordinated plan to achieve universal primary education by 2015.
  BBC News, 25 January 2012
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16705691

• Brown wants global education fund
  Mr Brown says he wants an independent Global Fund for Education to raise £13 billion a year
  The Press Association, 25 January 2012
  http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gTfJrEObUzoJ1Qr35GX5uc7Kg0IA?docId=N0122621327492423728A

• Gordon Brown calls for Global Fund for Education
  The Scotsman, 25 January 2012
  http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/gordon_brown_calls_for_global_education_fund_1_2076517

• Make it Right: Ending the Crisis in Girls' Education
  This new report by the Global Campaign for Education and RESULTS, with foreword by Graca Machel, shows that millions of girls are being forced out of school because of poverty, child labour, early child marriage, the threat of sexual violence, inadequate and poor-quality schools.
  Global Campaign for Education, 18 November 2011
  www.campaignforeducation.org/makeitright

• Keeping our promises
  When governments gather for the annual IMF-World Bank meeting in Washington next week their agenda will be dominated by Europe's debt problems and economic recession. Crucial though these are, my concern is that critical issues that will determine our long-term future are being pushed to the sidelines. Nowhere is this more evident than in education.
  Huffington Post, US, 19 September 2011
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gordon-brown/global-education_b_969974.html

• Africa must forgo the MDGs
  A recent review by Hon. Gordon Brown, Co-convenor of the Global Campaign for Education’s High Level Panel, echoes what some of us who have lived in some of the poorest countries of the world have been saying since the inception of the Millennium Development Goals
  Africa News, 5 July 2011 and Sierra Leone Now, 7 September 2011
  http://www.africanews.com/site/list_message/34958
  http://sierraleonenow.com/blog/view/id_2524/title_africa-must-forgo-the-mdgs-and-embrace-education/

• Poor education will thwart Africa's dreams
  The failure of poor nations to prioritise education will weaken economic growth and undermine efforts to meet poverty targets, former British prime minister Gordon Brown said on Friday.
  Mail and Guardian, South Africa, 20 May 2011
  http://mg.co.za/article/2011-05-20-gordon-brown-poor-education-will-thwart-africas-dreams

• Not keeping our word
  The world is in danger of sleepwalking through one of the greatest injustices of our times.
  Hindustan Times, 12 July 2011
  http://www.hindustantimes.com/Not-keeping-our-word/Article1-720336.aspx

• The plan to teach the world
  The epidemic of youth unemployment is betraying the promise of globalisation – but it doesn’t need to be this way. The cure is education.
  New Statesman, 15 June 2011
  http://www.newstatesman.com/global-issues/2011/06/education-world-young

• Gordon Brown: Rich nations breaking 'sacred promise' on education
  Wealthy nations are failing to fulfill their millennium promise to ensure all the world's children are given decent quality education by 2015, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned.
  CNN, 14 June 2011
  http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/06/14/gordon.brown.education/index.html