Describe in brief the issues taken up in the World Education conference at Dakar (Senegal) held in 2000?
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The World Education Forum is expected to provide the Education for All movement with a new momentum needed to resolve the glaring inequalities in educational provision. A global synthesis report, giving the most accurate and comprehensive picture ever of the state of basic education in the world, will be released at the Forum. "The present situation in education is unacceptable", says Svein Osttveit, Executive Secretary of the Education for All Forum. The Forum is an inter-agency body established in 1990 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank. "Governments must tackle education with a new sense of urgency, it is a simple question of getting priorities right, he said......