Our Millennium Goal was universal access to education. We decided to focus on Southeast Asia in particular, the changes made to the region, and the effectiveness of those changes on the rate of completion of higher levels of education.
My focus was on the current challenges facing the region preventing accessible education to the children who need it. I new beforehand that poverty and funding issues were going to be some main points, and wasn’t surprised that gender equality was an issue in the education systems across the globe. I was not expecting the clarity of the goal to be an issue; to me, it was exactly what it sounded like: primary school for all. I was also not expecting the availability and adaptability of teachers to be a problem, but really, a teacher teaches for decades, and if they aren’t keeping up with curriculum in places that are less strict/standardized then their students begin to suffer.