Education for All 2015 National Review
Abstract
This report summarizes Barbados’ progress towards the achievement of the UNESCO Education For All Goals. The report presents the country’s experiences in implementing various strategies and initiatives aimed at achieving the EFA goals, lessons learnt, emerging issues and challenges and projected initiatives to be pursued in the post-2015 period to address the emerging issues and challenges.
Education has traditionally been the engine of economic and social development for Barbados as seen in the significant investment in human capital by successive governments over the decades. Universal access to primary and secondary education was achieved since the 1980s. Since 1990, the Government of Barbados has demonstrated a strong commitment towards achieving the internationally agreed goals for education through its consistently high allocation of finance to education. On average, 16% of government expenditure and 6% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) have been spent on education to sustain the gains achieved over the last three decades.
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