Author Archives: Pauline Rose

More money needed to get all children into school by 2015

A major event in Copenhagen next week could make a crucial difference for the 67 million children around the world who are still not enrolled at school. Representatives of developing country governments, bilateral and multilateral agencies, civil society organizations and … Continue reading

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What’s in a name? Rebranding the EFA Fast Track Initiative

Français | Español By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report While world leaders were gathering at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, an event on the sidelines signalled a change that … Continue reading

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Harnessing the power of education

Français | Español Pauline Rose became director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report in August 2011, after three years as a senior policy analyst with the GMR team. Here she outlines her vision for the GMR and the … Continue reading

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Whether attacks are ‘indiscriminate’ or ‘deliberate’, education needs protection

Français | Español By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report A high school in Gaza. (Photo Eman Mohammed/©UNESCO) A flurry of recent news items have referred to what many describe as Justice Richard Goldstone’s “retraction” … Continue reading

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For refugees in Kenya, ‘education is the only thing we can take home’

Français | Español By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report In many ways, Kenya is an example of an African success story in education. According to the 2011 EFA Global Monitoring Report, growth in the … Continue reading

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Education can’t wait till the war is over

By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report team Recently I visited the huge refugee camps around Dadaab, Kenya, where more than 250,000 Somalis shelter from the war ravaging their country. In one camp, schoolboys said … Continue reading

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Who’s at school, and who’s missing out?

By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Global Monitoring Report team How many children are not in school? The figure we give in the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, which has been widely picked up around the world, is … Continue reading

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