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Gillard rallies support for schooling
JULIA Gillard is looking for someone with a spare $22 billion each year.
THAT'S how much it's going to cost to bring education standards around the world up to scratch, offering every child a year of pre-school, followed by primary and secondary schooling.
And it is a major focus for the former prime minister in her new role as chair of the Board of the Global Partnership for Education.
"I am most certainly on the search for the global philanthropist for education who will be the education equivalent of Bill Gates," Ms Gillard told a Hobart audience on Tuesday, speaking about her life post-politics.
While much progress has been made on global education rates, there are still 58 million children who will not get a primary school-level education, she said.
"The millennium development goal was supposed to be realised by the end of this year, 2015, and we aren't going to make it."
At a meeting in New York in September world leaders will decide on a new set of education targets to stretch through until 2030 and Ms Gillard is urging countries to aim high.
"We won't be able to achieve those lofty goals without more financing being mobilised for education," she said.
"That (funding) gap isn't going to be filled simply by aid dollars.
"We need to find a way to mobilise through donor governments, developing-country partners, private philanthropy, the amount of money that would fill that $22 billion gap."
When not at home in Adelaide Ms Gillard said she spends a lot of time travelling in her new role and has recently visited Rwanda where there are hopeful signs education standards will pick up.
A large percentage of the world's education shortfalls can be found in sub-Sahara Africa, Ms Gillard said, where girls are less likely to receive an education.
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