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Inside the figures: How the finance gap for Education-2030 was calculated
You may have seen the recent GMR estimates that there is an annual $39 billion finance gap for achieving new education targets by 2030. They have appeared in the working paper about financing by the Sustainable Development Solution Network, the … Continue reading
What role for Citizen Led Learning Assessments? – Moving beyond Measurement
By Colin Bangay, Senior Education Adviser for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in India. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK government’s official position or policies. The contribution of citizen led learning assessments (CLLA) in which … Continue reading
The Impossible, by Malala Yousafzai
The EFA GMR recently updated it’s costing analysis for the price of education targets from 2015-2030. The updated costing paper shows that there is an annual finance gap of $39 billion to provide pre-primary through to upper secondary education. This … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Child soldiers, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Finance, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Legislation, Literacy, Marginalization, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, sdgs, Secondary school, Teachers
Tagged conflict, finance, target 4.1
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Out-of-school numbers on the rise as aid to education falls short of 2010 levels
By Aaron Benavot, Director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Out-of-school children
Tagged finance, target 4.1
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$2.3 billion needed to send all children and adolescents to school in war zones
This blog details the contents of a new paper by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report on the barriers that conflict poses to getting all children and adolescents into school, and a new suggested target for financing education in … Continue reading
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Tagged conflict, finance, humanitarian aid, target 4.1, Target 4.a
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Conflict exacerbates already existing inequalities
The EFA GMR’s last report showed that only a third of countries had reached global education goals set in 2000, and identified conflict as one of the major barriers to achieving better results. A new paper out yesterday in time … Continue reading
The Education Story for the Small Island Development States 2000-2015
This blog sums up a new Regional Overview of the EFA GMR 2015 for the Small Island Developing States. The overview was prepared to feed into the 19th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers taking place this week in the Bahamas. … Continue reading
World Refugee Day and the lost generation
One in 122 people worldwide is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum, says UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War, released last Thursday. And given that 58% of all refugees are children, World Refugee Day is a … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Human rights, Poverty, Refugees and displaced people
Tagged #Target 4.5, finance, humanitarian aid, refugees
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Why media reports about learning assessment data make me cringe
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. With a new set of post-2015 education goals and targets on the horizon, the international community is looking to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) to help collect global data … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Finance, Learning, Legislation, Poverty, Quality of education, Teachers
Tagged target 4.1
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As more children have enrolled in schools in India, learning levels have declined
Since 2009-10, when India made eight years of education a fundamental right, the number of 6-14 year olds going to school has grown by over a million. Analysing data from Andhra Pradesh, Young Lives India country Director Renu Singh shows that … Continue reading
