Category Archives: accountability

Governments need to ensure rules are followed in education

Posted on 27 October 2017 by GEM Report

By Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO No matter your job, you need standards to ensure that you are working to meet your objectives. Unfortunately, where education and schools are concerned, these standards sometimes do not … Continue reading →

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New GEM Report says ‘Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault’

Posted on 24 October 2017 by GEM Report

The 2017/8 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report was released today at global events in Maputo, Mozambique, Brasilia, Brazil and in London, UK. It stresses that accountability is indispensable in achieving SDG 4. The Report highlights the responsibility of governments to … Continue reading →

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Let teachers teach: The dangers of expanding teacher workloads

Posted on 5 October 2017 by GEM Report

Today, on World Teachers’ Day, we look at one of the findings in the 2017/8 GEM Report on accountability in education due out later this month. The Report celebrates the undeniably critical role that teachers play in any education system: … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Teachers, teaching, tertiary education, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, target 4.c, teacher, teachers, teaching | 7 Comments

Learning to realize education’s promise – a look at the 2018 WDR

Posted on 28 September 2017 by GEM Report

For the first time in forty years, the World Bank’s World Development Report (WDR), released on Tuesday, focuses exclusively on education. We are pleased to see its core messages resonating so well with our past reports, especially the 2013/4 EFA … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Africa, Basic education, Learning, Literacy, Quality of education, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged education, learning, Quality of education, world bank | 2 Comments

Donors and countries are not pulling their weight in funding education

Posted on 20 September 2017 by GEM Report

Today, two events are being held during the UN General Assembly delivering a high-level political call for urgent action on education financing. As the forthcoming GEM Report due out 24 October shows, many countries and donors are not pulling their … Continue reading →

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Who is responsible for ensuring gender equality in education?

Posted on 14 September 2017 by GEM Report

Problems require solutions, which requires knowing who is responsible for fixing them, and having clear steps to address the issue. This is the meaning of accountability. A longstanding issue like gender inequality, therefore, is one for which accountability is clearly … Continue reading →

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Save The Date: The 2017/8 GEM Report is due out 24 October, 2017

Posted on 9 August 2017 by GEM Report

The GEM Report team is pleased to announce that the 2017/8 Report, ‘Accountability in Education: Meeting our Commitments’ will be released on October 24, 2017. We can also reveal the Report’s front cover, which shows a girl protesting outside her school. … Continue reading →

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Poor quality learning assessments are crumbling under the weight of the decisions they inform

Posted on 25 July 2017 by GEM Report

By Rachel Outhred, Education Consultant, Oxford Policy Management Much of the recent international discussion regarding the measurement of learning outcomes globally has been driven by the need to monitor Sustainable Development Goal 4 – ‘to ensure inclusive and equitable quality … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Learning, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability, assessment, funding, learning, SDG4 | 6 Comments

Liberia’s children deserve the best education

Posted on 24 July 2017 by GEM Report

By: Dr. Saaim W. Naame, Dean of Education at the University of Liberia. Over the last twenty years, the people of Africa’s first modern republic, Liberia, have been through two civil wars and a major virus epidemic. The wars caused … Continue reading →

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Partnerships with non-state providers need to be approached with caution

Posted on 17 July 2017 by GEM Report

By Alina Lipcan and Ian MacAuslan Low levels of learning globally make for one of the most sobering statistics in education. In 12 out of 13 countries in South-Eastern Africa, fewer than 40% of students had mastered basic numeracy and basic … Continue reading →