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Is global education data heading toward fragmentation?
A month ago, an article in Devex described the risk of fragmentation posed by the explosion of new international education financing mechanisms– especially as the pool of funding remains constant. Yet, the risk of fragmentation does not seem to apply … Continue reading
Posted in data, monitoring, Out-of-school children, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged data, monitoring, out of school, out of school children, SDG4
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Fighting gang violence in El Salvador by empowering young minds
By: IBREA Foundation “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed,” wrote the poet Archibald MacLeish for the preamble of UNESCO’s constitution in 1945. Having … Continue reading
Posted in school violence, SRGBV, Uncategorized, violence
Tagged school violence, Target 4.a, violence
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Free education for all in Sierra Leone? Can it happen?
In late August, Sierra Leone’s newly elected President Julius Madaa Bio, announced a five year initiative to roll out free pre-primary, primary and secondary education on 17 September. The new policy is intended to guarantee free school places for one … Continue reading
Posted in Developing countries, Finance, Inclussion, Uncategorized
Tagged financing, free education, right to education, Sierra Leone
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#EducationOnTheMove campaign – meet Richard
It’s back to school month in many countries around the world. Pencils, bags and reading lists are being compiled by some children, but not by all. Meet Richard, an asylum seeker from Chad. Aged 21 years, he left Chad after … Continue reading
Hungarian university suspends education programmes for refugees and asylum seekers
Two weeks ago the Central European University (CEU) announced it was being forced to suspend its education programmes for refugees and asylum seekers because of new tax legislation that came into effect on August 24. The law implies a 25% … Continue reading
100 million young people are still illiterate
This International Literacy Day there’s plenty to celebrate – the number of young people aged 15-24 with no literacy skills worldwide has fallen by 27% since 2000, a fact we hope to see reflected in plummeting adult literacy rates over … Continue reading
An additional half a million more refugee children are out of school in 2017
UNHCR’s new education report out today, Turn the tide: Refugee education in crisis, makes for sober reading. By the end of 2017, there were more than 25.4 million refugees around the world, more than half of whom are children. The new data … Continue reading
Posted in refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged out of school, refugee education, refugees
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Charting the Pacific: the importance of national monitoring reports for mapping education trends and challenges in the region
In this blog, the Pacific Community’s Education Quality and Assessment Program explain the way they support governments from across the region in producing national education monitoring reports, and how improved data collection and analysis at the national level is essential … Continue reading
South Africa’s private sector calls for an end to pit latrines in schools
Reports of children dying by falling into pit latrines in South Africa over the past few years followed by a flurry of legal cases saw the President launch a new Sanitation Appropriate for Education (SAFE) Initiative last week in partnership … Continue reading
Posted in private sector, Uncategorized
Tagged learning environments, private sector, sanitation, Target 4.a
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Only a quarter of Rohingya refugees’ education needs have been met
This time a year ago, the mass exodus of refugees began from Myanmar to Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. But one year on and only a quarter of the funds requested by 11 partners to cover their education needs have been … Continue reading
