U.N. Secretary-General Calls for Ambitious Targets to Increase Investment Per Student by 2025, at Transforming Financing of Education Event
September 21, 2022
September 21, 2022
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 -- The United Nations issued the following text of a video message on Sept. 19, 2022, by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of the Event on Transforming the Financing of Education:
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Excellencies, dear friends, education is the best investment any country can make in its people and its future. But spending is low, and falling. The average rich country spends over $8,000 per student compared to less than $200 in the average poor country.
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Excellencies, dear friends, education is the best investment any country can make in its people and its future. But spending is low, and falling. The average rich country spends over $8,000 per student compared to less than $200 in the average poor country.