Editing International development (section)

====Education====
{{Main|Education}}

The provision of education often focuses on providing free [[Primary education|primary level education]], but also covers [[Secondary education|secondary]] and [[higher education]]. A lack of access to education is one of the primary limits on human development, and is related closely to every one of the other sectors. Almost every development project includes an aspect of education as development by its very nature requires a change in the way people live.

The second Millennium Development Goal is to ''Provide [[Universal Primary Education|universal primary education]]''.

The provision of education is itself an education challenge, as it requires qualified [[teacher]]s who must be trained in higher education institutions. However, donors are unwilling to provide support to higher education because their policies now target the MDG.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}} The result is that students are not educated by qualified professionals and worse, when they graduate from primary school they are inducted into a secondary school system that is not able to accommodate them.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}