Every child's right to schooling could be delivered if the world cared enough to make it happen. Chris Brazier ends his report on education North and South with a look at countries and campaigns that are making a difference.
Nothing is more striking about our local school than the extremes it contains.
At the one end, we have more than our share of children who can read before they even come through the door, with parents who are financially comfortable and are deeply committed to education, both at home and in school. At the other extreme are those children whose home life is a morass of poverty and problems. It often seems as though these children have no chance at all, and that a life of disadvantage, low expectations and trouble with the law has been preordained for them. And yet at least they have been offered a place in school as of right, even if sometimes they only want to kick out against it. The children in the report on Tanzania that you have just read have no such opportunity.