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Equitable Quality Education: a Precondition for Sustainable Development Education International Internationale de lEducation Internacional de la Educación Bildungsinternationale Education International 1 (EI) views education as a fundamental human right and a public good, and strongly endorses a rights-based approach to education. Therefore, equitable participation in quality education must be at the centre of the global sustainable development agenda. Head Office Equitable participation in quality education remains an unfinished agenda. National enrolment 5, Bd du Roi Albert II figures often mask the differences between groups and regions, and those who tend to remain 1210 Brussels, Belgium excluded are disproportionally: poor, female, socially/ethnically/linguistically marginalised, Tel +32 2 224 06 11 Fax +32 2 224 06 06 disabled children and adults, and migrants that live in distant rural areas and/or fragile states. headoffice@ A commitment to equity requires measures designed to ensure that the most marginalised children and young people have access to an education of the same quality as the least marginalised, and this has to be reflected in the targets and indicators of a new framework. Quality education provides people with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and creativity needed President to solve problems locally and globally, and actively contributes to the sustainable and Susan Hopgood democratic development of societies. Thus, our aspirations for quality education must go beyond narrow learning outcomes. While literacy and numeracy are necessary and part of the General Secretary broader set of competences that a quality education offers,