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Category Archives: Africa
From education to the economy, malnutrition threatens Africa’s progress
By Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva Anyone who has gone without food for a couple of days knows the debilitating effects of hunger. For many of us, the experience is transient – we fail to eat during a trip or a long working … Continue reading
Food crisis is also an education crisis
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Hunger and malnutrition are urgent development problems, despite the fact that the world has the capacity to feed everyone. They also have devastating effects on education, robbing millions … Continue reading
Africa Progress Report calls for big push on education
Urgent action is needed to tackle a “twin crisis” in access to education and the quality of teaching, according to the 2012 Africa Progress Report, Jobs, Justice and Equity: Seizing Opportunities in Times of Global Change, which was launched on … Continue reading
BRIEFLY: Measuring education quality in Africa
To improve the quality of education, first you have to be able to measure it, but education quality is notoriously difficult to define and measure, as was pointed out on this blog last week. The UNESCO Institute of Statistics has … Continue reading
Education as a way out of exploitation
A new video and an accompanying article released by UNICEF about education in northern Benin turn the spotlight on child labour, child trafficking and other factors that rob children of their right to education. As we will discuss in our … Continue reading
BRIEFLY: Attacks in Nigeria leave thousands without schools
One common impact of conflict on education – which we noted in the 2011 Education for all Global Monitoring Report – is the tendency for armed groups to attack schools. Since the beginning of this year, the Islamist group Boko … Continue reading
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BRIEFLY: In Nairobi, a focus on decent jobs and better lives
Since Thursday, young people from across the globe have been meeting with senior leaders from the UN, governments and civil society in Nairobi at the Youth 21 Building for Change conference. The gathering aims to find better ways of engaging … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Employment, Skills, Youth
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Justice for children: Lubanga and Kony are only the tip of the iceberg
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The widespread use of child soldiers – whose damaging effects on education we examined in the 2011 Global Monitoring Report – came under the global spotlight for the … Continue reading
Education in the spotlight in 2011
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for all Global Monitoring Report The Arab Spring, South Sudan’s long-awaited independence and the world’s 7 billionth baby featured in our top 10 blog posts for 2011, which highlighted key messages of the … Continue reading
Skills are the key to fighting inequality, OECD says
A new report from the OECD argues that focusing on skills – the subject of the forthcoming 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report – is essential to combat rising wage inequality, which traps many people, especially the young and the … Continue reading
