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BRIEFLY: Background on education and conflict
Prospects, UNESCO’s Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, has published a special issue on education and armed conflict. It draws together seven background papers written for the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, with an editorial by Clementina Acedo, director of … Continue reading
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Targeting schools in the world’s newest state
Français | Español To mark the launch in Juba, South Sudan, of a new GMR policy paper on South Sudan’s education challenges, we publish a special opinion piece by UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova. Download the policy paper at http://www.efareport.unesco.org. On 9 … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Primary school
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Education for security and development
Français | Español | العربية By Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan To mark the launch in Amman, Jordan, of the Arabic edition of the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and … Continue reading
UN calls for better protection from attacks on schools
Français | Español A new UN report supplies further evidence of the disturbing trend towards attacks on schools that we documented in the 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education. The annual report … Continue reading
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Militarizing aid is dangerous for education
Français | Español By Marisol Sanjinés, senior communications adviser, Education for All Global Monitoring Report, and Yolanda Polo, GMR consultant The line between development and international security has been blurred considerably in recent years. Some donor countries, led by the … Continue reading
A week of global action for girls’ and women’s education
Français | Español The Global Monitoring Report team is joining forces with UNESCO’s network of field offices to mark this year’s Education for All Global Action Week (May 2-8), which focuses on girls’ and women’s education. In 2000, governments pledged … Continue reading
When aid is driven by the news cycle
School children in Florida Valle, Colombia. Although Colombia has the world’s second-largest population of internally displaced people, they seldom make the news. (Photo: ©UNESCO/Ministerio de Educación, Colombia) Français | Español At the EFA Global Monitoring Report we welcomed the release … Continue reading
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Hard lessons in the world’s largest refugee complex
Français | Español Somali refugees’ struggle for education in the Dadaab camps in northeastern Kenya, which we focused on in a post earlier this month, comes under the spotlight in an article from IRIN that builds on the findings of … Continue reading
Education bounces back in Cambodia and Ethiopia
Français | Español By Jakob Engel, a research consultant for the Overseas Development Institute Cambodia and Ethiopia offer valuable lessons on improving access to education after conflict, the theme of the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, The hidden crisis: Armed … Continue reading
How donors betray children’s hopes in conflict zones
Français | Español By Sarah Press, Education Thematic Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for Save the Children (UK) If you wanted to put names and faces to the million of forgotten children in the world, you might … Continue reading
