TFSN: Quality Edu. 4 Generations to Come Around 58 million  children are out of primary school, with a further 69 million out of lower secondary school, and the quality of education they receive is often disastrously poor. It is estimated that 130 million children fail to acquire basic reading and numeracy skills while in school, while another 120 million drop out in early years . If education is to have a transformative effect on children, it needs to be of good quality.
A strong teaching force is a crucial building block towards achieving quality basic education for all. The shortage of well-qualified teachers is one of the main reasons for the continuing crisis in the quality of education. There is an urgent need for an additional 1.6 million teachers to achieve universal primary education. The lack of good quality educational opportunities has left 774 million adults unable to read and write, almost two thirds of them being women. Almost half of the out of school children live in conflict affected areas. War, conflict and natural disasters further deprive children and adolescents of their right to education. There is a continuing crisis in access to, and quality of, education.
Although there is enough wealth in the world to meet every young person#s right to quality education, this wealth is unequally distributed . There are various additional reasons why governments, especially in low-income countries, are not providing these rights to all their young citizens, especially girls.
Inequalities between and within regions, countries and societies are deepening and the national and international community must act and can use the power of education to reduce poverty and support the achievement of wider development goals. Education is an enabling right, it helps to reduce maternal and child mortality, promote democracy, good governance and human rights, it helps to tackle chronic poverty, raise living standards, promote women#s rights and gender equality.

As Winnie Byanyima Executive Director of Oxfam International said during the Macro Economics of Income Inequality debate in Washington  : "I am a proud product ofpublic education. I grew up in a village without power and running water at home but went to a governmental school. And today here I am a global leader. Education equalizes, reduces inequality. Education and health are a virtual income to poor people."

Oxfam stated in its pledge for Global Partnership for Education (GPE) replenishment summit 2015-2018 (which took place in June 2014 in Brussels ): Oxfam will support Southern NGO partners financially and technically (through the facilitation of learning and capacity development) to monitor and hold their governments accountable for the delivery of high quality education programs, especially for girls, and to engage in education policy dialogue.

To respond to the challenge identified by the GPE to improve the quality of education, Oxfam will, on the basis of its OSP and the ultimate goal of equal learning opportunities for children and young people, support theprofessionalization of un(der)qualified teachers in order to sustain continuing expansion of access to basic education, improve thequality of education, and by extension, learning outcomes. We will collaborate with coalition partners and the GPE in removing obstacles to effective teaching in line with the EFA goals

In light of the above, ON is working in close collaboration with EI on holding governments, especially in Uganda and Mali, responsible for the quality of their education system. EI and ON#s joint project, Quality Educators for All (Quality Ed), contributes to the quality of education by working with the governments in these countries to develop a competence based profile for school teachers and influencing the teacher training institutes to accept competence based curricula for teacher training. In-service training and teacher professional development in these two countries have been revamped and aligned to the teacher competence profile. The project till now only piloted at primary teachers level, truly believes that Quality Teachers will teach and learn and impact generations to come, far beyond the duration of the project. Knowing that we aim to achievethe goal of getting all young people into school and learning, teachers have an important role to play, especially in the lives of children and youth. Teachers have a role as change agents in the lives of these young people.