Author Archives: GEM Report

BRIEFLY: Children with disabilities should have an opportunity to learn

This year’s State of the World’s Children report by UNICEF focuses on the many challenges that children with disabilities face in accessing their rights to school and other public services, and proposed solutions to ensure that students with disabilities can … Continue reading

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BRIEFLY: Malnutrition prevents children from learning

A report released this week by Save the Children UK shows how much malnutrition harms children’s chances of learning. In a study conducted by Young Lives in four countries, malnourished children scored 7% lower in mathematics tests, were 19% less … Continue reading

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Turning the ‘resource curse’ into a blessing for education

Maximizing the income from natural resources such as oil and minerals could provide an education to 86% out-of-school children and 42% of out-of-school adolescents in 17 developing countries, according to calculations by the EFA Global Monitoring Report team. Our new … Continue reading

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Developing countries, Economic growth, Finance, Governance, Innovative financing, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

The urgency of reaching out-of-school children for economic and social development

Nicholas Burnett is managing director at Results for Development Institute, where he manages the Education portfolio. New analysis from the Results for Development Institute sheds light on the cost to countries’ economies from out-of-school children. Among the most alarming revelations … Continue reading

Posted in Developing countries, Economic growth, Finance, Governance, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

BRIEFLY: Messages from youth campaigners to governments on the skills deficit

The Arabic version of the 2012 Global Monitoring Report will be launched today in Cairo, at an event hosted by the League of Arab States. As the last of the regional launches of the Report, the event will also mark the … Continue reading

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Let’s choose post-2015 education goals that reflect countries’ own needs

For post-2015 education goals to achieve real change, they need the widest support possible, argues Ed Barnett, an education adviser at the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. (The views expressed in this blog are the author’s and do not … Continue reading

Posted in Basic education, Equity, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education | 4 Comments

Post-2015: If we don’t tackle educational inequality, we’ll fail the fairness test

By Will Paxton, head of education policy and advocacy for Save the Children UK and chair of the Global Campaign for Education UK’s Policy Group, and Anthony Davis, policy adviser for Plan UK As debates about the post-2015 development framework … Continue reading

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Gender, Human rights, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Uncategorized | 4 Comments

BRIEFLY: WISE honours innovative projects and an education pioneer

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), the Qatar Foundation’s global platform promoting innovation in education, is inviting applications and nominations for the 2013 WISE Awards and the WISE Prize for Education. The WISE Awards spotlight the best educational practices: Innovative … Continue reading

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Join our #youthskillswork infographic competition

Data are key to telling us how well we are doing in progressing towards Education for All – whether countries are on track or off track, and who is getting left behind in entering school or learning once inside the … Continue reading

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From the streets of Sudan: Khalid’s story

The winner of the 2012 EFA Global Monitoring Report art contest, Khalid Mohamed Hammad Elkhateem, knows the importance of education. His winning artwork “In the middle of nowhere” describes how youth of today are lost in the mismatch of skills … Continue reading

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