The 17 Goals include a series of targets over the next 15 years to tackle global issues including hunger, poverty, gender equality, peace and the environment. Goal 4 is concerned specifically with education.
Education formed a key part of the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000, with world leaders promising to deliver an education for every child by 2015.
However, while much progress has been made, 57 million children are still out of school. More than half of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa and half also live in conflict-affected areas.
Furthermore, 103 million young people worldwide lack basic literacy skills, with more than 60 per cent of them being women.
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