It has been a busy year for education campaigners around the globe. In April millions of us took part in the World's Biggest Lesson with 8.8 million people in the official count. In September celebrities, corporate, faith and government leaders came together with GCE to join the Class of 2015 and make new commitments to Education for All. In December campaigners jointly put pressure on their representative attending the High Level Group in Oslo last week, not to mention the numerous other campaign activities that have happened throughout the year.

With these joint efforts by everyone within the GCE coalition and membership there is heightened attention to achieving the Education for All goals, and we should look forward to 2009 when we have the chance to get some real very commitments to Education for All. GCE will be putting full steam into the next Global Action Week activity - the Big Read, in which we hope millions will take part and campaign for literacy for all.

With best wishes going into the next year,

The GCE Secretariat

(Alex, Amy, David, Geoffrey, Khanyi, Lucia, Muleya, Michelle, Owain, Patrick, Taylor and Yunus)

www.campaignforeducation.org