On current trends, UNESCO projects that it will take until 2072 until all the poorest young women in developing countries are literate.
Teaching and Learning: Achieving quality for all is the 11th Education for All Global Monitoring Report and estimates that 10 per cent of global spending on education is being lost on poor-quality education.
Around 250 million children are not learning basic skills even though half of them have spent at least four years in school. In a third of the countries analysed, less than three-quarters of existing primary school teachers are trained to national standards.
UNESCO says that 5.2 million teachers must be recruited by 2015 to help tackle the problem.
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