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SDG 4, or Sustainable Development Goal 4, is a commitment to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This goal aims to provide children and young people with quality and easy access to education, as well as other learning opportunities, and supports the reduction of inequalities.
It is an instrument for benchmarking the quality of online, open and flexible education at programme, faculty and institutional levels. The framework defines requirements (called "benchmarks") for the entire process, from curriculum design to delivery, including the management and support of online and blended learning.
Teacher quality is said to be the most important factor influencing learner outcomes. [1] The Education for All Goals set by UNESCO have been achieved by some countries but many millions of children remain out of school or with poor teachers.
[1] The definition of education has been explored by theorists from various fields. [2] Many agree that education is a purposeful activity aimed at achieving goals like the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits. [3] However, extensive debate surrounds its precise nature beyond these general features.
The Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) was created to oversee quality of education and to ensure outcomes were being reached. [19] The MQA created a framework that includes eight levels of qualification within higher education, covering three sectors; skills, vocational and technical, and academic. [20]
Education is a major component of well-being and is used in the measure of economic development and quality of life, which is a key factor determining whether a country is a developed, developing, or underdeveloped country.
Universal access to education [1] is the ability of all people to have equal opportunity in education, regardless of their social class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnic background or physical and mental disabilities. [2] The term is used both in college admission for the middle and lower classes, and in assistive technology [3] for the disabled.
Educational accreditation is a quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated and verified by an external body to determine whether applicable and recognized standards are met.