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New partnerships are needed to improve learning worldwide
What do children and young people need to learn? And how can we measure what they have learned? For the last 18 months, the Learning Metrics Task Force has put these questions to experts and agencies worldwide. Tomorrow it presents … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Finance, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Quality of education, Skills, Teachers, Testing, Training
Tagged education, Education for All, equity, learning, learning for all, literacy, MDG, post-2015, poverty
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Education gives girls dignity
Speech, by Mariam Khalique, teacher of Pakistani school girl Malala Yousafzai, at an event in New York for the release of the Education For All Global Monitoring Report’s new analysis, Education Transforms. “Bismillah! In the name of ALLAH, the most … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Gender, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Uncategorized
Tagged equality, Gender, Malala, post-2015
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New data launched today: Education Transforms Lives
Today, one week before world leaders meet at the UN General Assembly, we have released new analysis confirming that education lights every stage of the journey to a better life, especially for the poor and the most vulnerable. Education’s unique power … Continue reading
Our new evidence underlines education’s unique transformative power
Next week we will release new analysis showing how education transforms lives. Presented as a booklet with infographics by Information is Beautiful, the analysis will demonstrate education’s unrivalled power to boost wider development goals. In two weeks’ time, the shape … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Climate change, Conflict, Democracy, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Employment, Environment, Equality, Gender, Governance, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human rights, Millennium Development Goals, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Quality of education
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Savings groups can help reduce the financial barriers to education
By Stuart Cameron, Consultant, Oxford Policy Management, and Karen Moore, Economic Security Adviser, Plan UK Savings groups are a low-risk form of microfinance used in many countries by Plan and other international NGOs. Do they help families keep their children … Continue reading
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BRIEFLY: UNICEF calls for sustainable development post-2015 to focus on children
UNICEF makes a compelling case for putting children at the centre of the post-2015 sustainable development framework in a new paper, ‘Sustainable development starts and ends with safe, healthy and well-educated children’. Investing in children’s well-being and learning is the … Continue reading
Is it too much to ask for free quality education for all?
By Antonia Wulff, coordinator at Education International Education is an inalienable human right – but across the world this right is being undermined by the impacts of inequality, a lack of political commitment and inadequate investment in education. We need … Continue reading
Spotlight on Africa: who’s going to school?
This Sunday’s Day of the African Child focuses on “eliminating harmful social and cultural practices affecting children” – so it’s an ideal time to reflect on the region’s progress toward universal primary schooling. Sub-Saharan Africa is home to more than half … Continue reading
Reductions in aid jeopardize schooling for millions of children
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, and Albert Motivans, head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Millions of children may be denied access to school due to reductions in aid, according … Continue reading
Africa’s resource wealth could end illiteracy and build an educated middle class
By Caroline Kende-Robb, executive director of the Africa Progress Panel A new report from the Africa Progress Panel shows that mineral wealth could transform education in Sub-Saharan Africa, building on the findings of the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, Developed countries, Economic growth, Employment, Finance
Tagged target 4.6
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