The second of the eight development goals launched at the turn of the century called for every child in the world, boys and girls alike, to receive a full course of primary school education by 2015.
Unesco's global education monitoring report 2016 shows that just 64 countries of the 157 tracked by the report met MDG 2, which called for every child in the world to receive a full course of primary school education by 2015.
He points to MDG2, which aimed to ensure that children everywhere were able to complete a full course of primary schooling by 2015.
*To ensure that, by the same date, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling; and that girls and boys will have equal access to all levels of education.
The most progress was made toward achieving the target set for MDG 2: to ensure that by 2015, children everywhere (boys and girls alike) would be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
Target 2. A. states, "Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling".
The following excerpts from Dataset One illustrate the nature of these key messages: 'pace of progress has stagnated in recent years, and is insufficient to ensure that, by 2015, all girls and boys complete a full course of primary schooling'.
Target by 2015: Ensure that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling.
Ensuring that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary schooling is one of the Millennium Development Goals.
"Children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling".
