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The Jomtien Conference in 1990 was a game changer for education
This blog looks back at the start of the EFA movement, from Jomtien, to Dakar, to today. It is the first in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. Svein … Continue reading
Youth is more than the theme of the day; it’s the theme of the decade
On International Youth Day, this blog looks at the continued importance of keeping the spotlight on better skills development for young people. In 2012, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report analysed the youth skills gap and reported that it … Continue reading
Achieving equity through finance: helping Indigenous populations in Brazil
On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, this blog outlines successful policies in Latin America that have helped redistribute funds to help bring about equity in education, and benefit its indigenous populations. To achieve Education for All, it … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Ethnicity, Language, Latin America, Marginalization, Rural areas, Teachers
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Women’s education helps avert child marriage
This week, a Girl Summit is being held in London, aimed at rallying efforts to end female genital mutilation and child marriage within a generation. This blog looks at the vital role that education plays in helping reduce child marriages … Continue reading
Posted in Developing countries, Equality, Gender, Out-of-school children, Poverty
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The new education targets still need fine-tuning
The next few days are crucial for putting finishing touches on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) before they are handed over to the group who will work on the text at September’s United Nations General Assembly. Large substantial changes are likely to … Continue reading
Learning is not just for students
By Kristen Weatherby, Senior Analyst at OECD The latest results from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) were released last week in countries around the globe. TALIS 2013 surveyed 107,000 lower secondary teachers in 34 participating countries to represent … Continue reading
What education do we want for the future?
Qian Tang, PhD, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO and Dr. Nicholas Alipui, Director and Senior Advisor on the Post-2015 development agenda, UNICEF. Today, UNESCO and UNICEF will convene a high-level discussion on the post-2015 education agenda. This event, hosted by the … Continue reading
Posted in Post-2015 development framework
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TALIS: Showing how teachers acquire confidence and improve children’s learning.
This week, a new round of TALIS survey results will be published by OECD. This blog looks at some of the findings from the last TALIS survey, which shows the sorts of practices which increase teachers’ feeling of confidence in … Continue reading
How can we measure global citizenship skills post 2015?
In the third of our series of guest blogs on the five proposed outcome-oriented post-2015 global education targets, Bryony Hoskins, senior lecturer at the University of Southampton, looks at the challenges of measuring citizenship knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. In … Continue reading
The Muscat Agreement: New proposed post 2015 global education goal and targets announced today
A global goal and targets for the post-2015 education agenda, discussed last month at the Global Education For All Meeting in Muscat, Oman, have been announced today. This is the first important step in a process that will culminate at … Continue reading
