Reuters – Nita Bhalla
“International donors must boost aid to developing nations to ensure that millions of the world’s poorest and marginalised children can go to school, a group of Nobel laureates said on Monday, ahead of a global conference on financing for education. Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said he had brought together the world’s most renowned science laureates for the first time to urge rich nations “to be more generous” on the eve of the Oslo Summit on Education for Development. “Donors have failed to deliver the investments needed for education,” the Indian child rights activist told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview by phone from Stuttgart, Germany.”(more)