Equal Access on Education: The Value of Education for All (EFA)
The tenets of Education for All (EFA) mandated countries around the world to provide equal access to Basic Education for all children, youths, and adults. Education empowers an individual to have greater heights in life and secure and better future, hence, providing accessibility for complete education may set the future of one’s country for the more educated the citizenry could become, the more successful the country would become. The EFA goals had been targeted to end last 2015 since its introduction in 1990, and yet there are countries unable to meet that target, including the Philippines. The six internationally agreed education goals, as presented by the United Nations (UN) to its member countries, are as follows: Goal 1 is for the expansion and improvement of comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children; Goal 2 intends ensuring that by 2015 all children, particularly girls, children in difficult circumstan