South Africa is one of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa to get 80% or more of its children into pre-primary education. But it is also one of only two countries in the region - the other is Seychelles - in which enrolments for secondary education are falling.These are some of the findings contained in the 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, due to be released by UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation today.Only a third of countries globally achieved all six of the education goals set in 2000 by Unesco. None of them is in sub-Saharan Africa.The six goals are:Expanding early childhood care and education;Universal primary education;Equal access to learning and life skills for youths and adults;A 50% reduction in adult illiteracy;Gender parity and equality; and Improving the quality of education and ensuring measurable learning outcomes for all.Despite progress being made globally in giving access to education, dropout numbers continue to be far too high. At least 20% of children enrolled in 32 countries were not expected to reach the last grade.University of the Free State rector Jonathan Jansen has acknowledged the improvement in access to education but has doubts about its quality."Setting the bar high for educational achievement, and imposing consequences for low performance by teachers, are two key instruments for turning schools around," said Jansen.According to the Unesco report, governments of countries in sub-Saharan Africa allocated more of their expenditure to education (18.4%) than those in East Asia and the Pacific region (both 17.5%).Education specialist Graeme Bloch said more needed to be done to improve secondary and tertiary education."Africa cannot remain bad at maths and reading if it is to grow and develop," he said.The shortage of teachers is another problem for sub-Saharan Africa - fewer than 50% of teachers are trained.Elizabeth Henning, of the University of Johannesburg, said getting young people into training as primary school teachers would lessen the "huge" shortage in foundation-phase education...