Position Paper on Education Post-2015

This position paper identifies that there is a strong need for a new and forward-looking education agenda that completes unfinished business while going beyond the current goals in terms of depth and scope. This position paper takes into consideration emerging trends and broader socio-economic development challenges that affect developed and developing countries alike in a globalised, inter-connected world, and their implications for education. Such trends and challenges include rapid economic growth in some countries and changing labour markets, shifting geo-politics, technological advances, demographic changes and growing urbanisation, and increased energy consumption leading to increasing pressure on natural resources, amid growing unemployment, in particular of youth, and widening inequalities.