Goal:

Achieve gender equality, and universal equitable primary and secondary education[20]

Interlinkages

Equitable access to quality education and enhance appropriate technology[21]

Interlinkages

Targets:

Ensure by 2040 that children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.

Education system that should be accessible and affordable to all and especially the vulnerable youth by having universal primary and secondary education and provision of scholarship for students in colleges and universities at local and international level.

Ensure by 2040 that 80 per cent of boys and girls alike will be able to complete a full course of secondary education.

Emphasize on investment and promotion of education curriculum that is ICT-incorporated, action-oriented, technical, vocational and entrepreneurship based with the aim of preparing youth for self-employment and cope with the actual environment/working conditions Streamlining and secure of intellectual and property rights with the aim of supporting local innovations.

Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2030, and at all levels of education no later than 2040.

Streamlining and secure of intellectual and property rights with the aim of supporting local innovations.

Ensure that practical Science Technology and Innovation training, especially Information and Communication Technology (ICT) training is an integral part of secondary and tertiary education by 2030 and at all levels by 2040.

Support of efficient, customized and sustainable local innovation and research to solve societal problems. The development, promotion, and implementation of policies that enable internal mobilization of resources towards friendly business environment for local technological organizations/institutions.