Six Million New Teachers Needed to Ensure UN Goal of Universal Primary Education

by Gary Kopycinski on October 5, 2011

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–5 October 2011. The United Nations marked World Teachers’ Day today with a warning that 6.1 million more teachers are needed to meet the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of attaining universal primary education by 2015.