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Why are people talking about a teacher shortage in New Zealand?
At the end of February, the government of New Zealand called the teacher shortage a “ticking time bomb“, with the number of people training to join the profession at the pre-primary, primary and secondary education levels having dropped by 40% … Continue reading
Posted in Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged New Zealand, target 4.b, teachers, teaching
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A postcard from this year’s Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference
By Will Smith, Senior policy analyst at the GEM Report The most unique aspect of the Comparative and International Education Society Annual (CIES) conference is the convergence of the global education community into a single location. It is a tremendous … Continue reading
The Chilean students are back for more: protesting for education equality
For the third time in the past 12 years, Chilean students are back on the streets calling for equality in education. This time they are protesting a decision taken by the Constitutional Tribunal to overturn the Higher Education Law, which … Continue reading
Ensuring learning with educational technology in emergency settings
UNESCO’s annual Mobile Learning Week provides a unique opportunity for policy makers, civil society organizations, teachers, students and academics to share knowledge, innovations and good practices in mobile learning. A key theme at this year’s event is the role of … Continue reading
Posted in emergencies, migration, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged edtech, emergencies, migration, technology
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More than just symbolism? France makes pre-primary school compulsory from age 3
President Macron of France announced yesterday that, as of 2019, school will be compulsory in the country for all children from age 3, making France the country with the lowest compulsory age of education in the European Union. Apart from … Continue reading
Posted in Pre-primary education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged france, Macron, pre-primary education, target 4.2
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How technology can boost accountability in education
This week, as UNESCO’s annual flagship event on ICTs in education Mobile Learning Week, is taking place in Paris, the GEM Report takes a look at the growing interest in the role of technology and big data in facilitating citizen … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, data, digital literacy, ICT, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, ICT, ICT skills, technology
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Learning InEquality: An equality law approach to Education for All
Camilla Alonzo, Legal and Programmes Officer, Equal Rights Trust, an independent international organisation whose objective is to combat discrimination and advance equality as a fundamental human rights and a basic principle of social justice The statistics regarding the number of … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Inclusion, right to education, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged access, equality, Inclusion, inequality
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A global framework to measure digital literacy
By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics From the cocoa farmer in Ghana using a mobile phone to market crops to the nurse in Sweden using telehealth … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, STEM, Uncategorized
Tagged digital literacy skills, digital skills, edtech, monitoring, Target 4.4, technology
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Gender stereotypes in Bangladeshi, Indonesian, Malaysian and Pakistani textbooks
By M Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, and Kazi Mukitul Islam, German Embassy, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Female education is widely believed to benefit society through both economic and non-economic channels. Yet, for decades, girls … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Equality, Equity, Gender, parity, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged 2018 gender review blog series, accountability, Gender, target 4.7, textbooks
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Highlights from the 2018 Gender Review launch in New York
“Young women aren’t the changemakers of the future, they are the here and now” said GenUN Fellow, Rabita Tareque to a room of civil society representatives, teachers, policy makers, academics and donors at Thursday’s global launch of the Global Education … Continue reading
Posted in accountability, Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, equality, equity, Gender, parity, target 4.5
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