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Nature 456, 572-573 (4 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/456572a; Published online 3 December 2008
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Make secondary education universal
Joel E. Cohen1
- Joel E. Cohen is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York 10065, USA, and professor of populations at Columbia University in New York.
Email: cohen@rockefeller.edu
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The time is right to push global learning beyond primary-school level, says Joel E. Cohen. The benefits could include a dramatically smaller increase in world population by 2050.
Next week, the representatives of the countries that fund the World Bank's programmes to promote universal education in developing regions will hold a planning meeting in Oslo. These leaders, and the developing countries they support, should make global secondary education a major objective.
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