"布朗受命成為聯合國教育特使"

前英國首相將試著幫助更多開發中國家的兒童接受教育。

聯合國秘書長潘基文任命前英國首相布朗為新的聯合國全球教育特使。布朗自卸除首相一職之後，已寫下許多開發中國家教育制度的相關文章，而且他表示新的職務對他而言是「無上的殊榮」。他的目標是看到6,100萬名孩童在2015年前可以開始接受教育。

自今年年初開始，布朗正努力成立一個國際基金會，幫助所有的孩童接受教育。他表示「確保全球每位孩童都有機會上學校學習，是我長久以來的熱情所在。」他更提到，「教育能破除貧窮的惡性循環，讓人開始懷抱更好的健康及就業願景。」

布朗研究過衝突區的教育情形，在一份南蘇丹的報告裡，他寫下該國女孩死於生產的可能性極有可能高於完成小學學業。他表示：「在2015年年底前，讓額外的6,100萬名孩童註冊上學，並確保所有人的教育品質，這並非一件容易的事。但如果大家一起努力，我們一定可以達成這個目標。」

(Education)Brown Appointed as UN Education Envoy

The former British prime minister will try to help more children in developing countries receive an education.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been appointed as a new UN global education envoy for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Since leaving his post as prime minister, Brown has written a number of papers about education in developing countries, and he says his new job is a great privilege. His target is to see 61 million additional children start their education by 2015.

Since the start of the year, Brown has been working to set up an international fund to help all children receive an education. He says that ensuring that every child in the world has the opportunity to go to school and to learn is a longstanding passion of mine, adding that education breaks the cycle of poverty and unlocks better health and better job prospects.

Brown has studied education in conflict zones, and in a report on South Sudan, he wrote that girls in the country are more likely to die giving birth than complete even their elementary school education. Enrolling an additional 61 million children and ensuring a quality education for all by the end of 2015 will not be easy, he says, but it is a goal which, working together, we can achieve.

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