Access to Secondary Education in the Asia Pacific Region: Marginalized Pupils in Bangladesh, Lao PDR, Mongolia, and the Philippines

Conference: The Asian Conference on Education (ACE2021)
Title: Access to Secondary Education in the Asia Pacific Region: Marginalized Pupils in Bangladesh, Lao PDR, Mongolia, and the Philippines
Stream: Primary & Secondary Education
Presentation Type: Panel Presentation
Authors:
William C. Smith, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Antonia Voigt, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Batjargal Batkhuyag, Mongolian Education Alliance, Mongolia
Manjuma Akhtar Mousumi, BRAC Institute for Education, Bangladesh
Rene Raya, Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education, Philippines

Abstract:

This live-streamed panel will share key findings and highlight recommendations to aid national and international efforts to provide equitable access to education from a recent scoping project in the Asia Pacific region. The project identified children with multiple disadvantages who are most likely to be excluded from secondary education. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 includes secondary education as an important target, encouraging countries to press forward toward universal access, at a time where up to one in three secondary school-age children in the Asia Pacific region remain out of school. The panel will start with a team from the University of Edinburgh providing a numeric overview of the state of access in the region, including new projections on when the region will achieve universal access to secondary education, and highlight marginalized populations most at risk of exclusion. Panellists from the BRAC Institute for Education, UNESCO Bangkok, the Mongolian Education Alliance, and ASPBAE will then share insights from their case studies on Bangladesh, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, and the Philippines. Discussions will highlight the economic, political, structural, and social barriers leading to the marginalization of specific groups of children in these countries. The conclusion will further examine the complex, intersecting and seemingly intractable nature of these barriers. Although the groups of children marginalized differ across the case studies, the web of barriers faced by them is very similar. Finally, a new tool, designed to help policymakers and local stakeholders to identify and address barriers to secondary education, will be introduced.

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