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Author Archives: GEM Report
The Arguments and Evidence behind Public-Private Partnerships in Education
By Donald Baum, Assistant Professor of Education Policy and Economics, Brigham Young University Over the last few months, Liberia has become the site of and source for significant debate over its decision to initiate a large scale public-private partnership (PPP) … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Finance, private schools, private sector, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged education, learning, private education, private schools, private sector
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What it’s like teaching refugees in Malawi
By Dede Buloba Everyone agrees that education is important in a refugee camp to help those who have had to drop out of school to move across borders. I can speak about this from my experience as refugee, now teaching … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Conflict, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged malawi, refugees, target 4.1, Target 4.a, target 4.c
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When is state funding of private schools a violation of human rights?
By Sylvain Aubry, Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The announcement at the beginning of the year by the Ministry of Education of Liberia of its intention to outsource the management of all its pre-primary and primary schools … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Finance, Human rights, private schools, private sector, Quality of education, Uncategorized
Tagged finance, private schools, target 4.1
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Building resilience and shaping futures: the UNRWA response to the education needs of Palestine refugees from Syria
By Caroline Pontefract, Director of Education, UNRWA/UNESCO Education Programme Over the past 65 years, the UNRWA/UNESCO education programme has been providing quality and equitable learning opportunities for refugees, and is currently supporting 500,000 refugees in the Middle East despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Arab States, Conflict, Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Out-of-school children, refugees, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, refugees
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Refugees are more than just numbers
By Salam Al-Nukta, youth Advisor to the GEM Report. In a world where war is constantly taking place, violence and human rights violation force hundreds of families to flee their countries everyday leaving behind wounded memories, beloved ones and broken … Continue reading
No child should have to pay the cost of war
By Malala Yousafzai, Student, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Co-Founder of the Malala Fund No child should have to pay the cost of war, to be kept away from the classroom because of conflict. Yet whole generations of refugee children … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, emergencies, Out-of-school children, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized, violence
Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, refugees
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How to include all in monitoring the global goal in education SDG4?
By Aaron Benavot, Director of the GEM Report It’s tough to cover this issue in a blog. It’s something we cover extensively in the next GEM Report due out on September 6th. But it’s also something I presented on today … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Finance, Marginalization, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5
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Reflections: The First Global Education Monitoring Report’s Advisory Board Meeting
By Baela Raza Jamil- Vice Chair GEM Report For two full days I was honoured to Chair the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report’s First Advisory Board meeting (June 2-3 2016). Jeff Sachs our luminary Chairperson was unable to attend due … Continue reading
Posted in Donors, monitoring, Post-2015 development framework, Report, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged education, Education for All, GMR, post-2015, SDG, SDGs, UNESCO
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Should school principals be held accountable for the quality of education? An Ethiopian perspective.
The 2017 GEM Report will explore the successes and challenges to effective accountability in Education. While the online consultation is now officially closed, we welcome comments until the yearlong research period of the Report is over. This includes the following … Continue reading
Some donors are shifting aid to secondary education
The recent policy paper by the GEM Report containing the data on 2014 aid spending shows that, for several years, aid to education has been stuck not only at a level far below what is needed but even below levels … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged finance, target 4.1
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