The 2030 development agenda is, by most accounts, more wide-ranging than its MDG predecessor. For education that means expanding the objective from one solely focused on access to one that also strives for quality.

“The Sustainable Development Goals agenda has gotten wise to those problems,” Julia Gillard, chair of the Global Partnership for Education and former Australian prime minister, told Devex in an exclusive interview at the 2015 World Innovation Summit for Education. “The quality of what’s happening in those classrooms is open to a lot of questions,” she said.

See the interview on Devex