Africa: Need to focus on secondary education

Africa will only be able to provide universal access to primary schooling by 2150, yet it also has to begin focusing on improving the secondary education sector, says a new report. It could take the continent another century to achieve the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of Universal Primary Education (UPE), due by 2015, "and even then it may not acquire the skills its needs to truly develop," said a new report, 'Back to the Blackboard' by the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).