Category Archives: Africa

What happens if an education system is outsourced?

Posted on 12 February 2016 by GEM Report

The new Liberian Education Minister, George Werner, announced in January that the pre-primary and primary schools in the country will move over to be run by ‘public-private’ partnerships in a $65 million five year deal. Why this change? In February … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Finance, Post-2015 development framework, private schools, private sector, Uncategorized | Tagged liberia, target 4.1 | 12 Comments

Can Africa afford free education?

Posted on 27 January 2016 by GEM Report

Today, BBC World Service is holding a debate in South Africa around the question ‘Can Africa afford free education?’, which we have been helping them answer. Inequality in education: poverty as a major factor. The new agenda calls for 12 … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Out-of-school children | Tagged SSA, target 4.1 | 7 Comments

How we could triple the availability of textbooks

Posted on 19 January 2016 by Aaron Benavot

Our first new policy paper as the GEM Report is out today and shows how altering the textbook market to a more centralised finance model could take up to $3 off the price of each book. Combining this approach with … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, curriculum, Developing countries, Donors, Equity, Innovative financing, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Primary school, Quality of education, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations | Tagged target 4.1, textbooks | 9 Comments

Education can break the bonds of child marriage.

Posted on 18 November 2015 by mdelprato

By Marcos Delprato, GMR researcher The GMR showed in 2013 that there would be 14% fewer child marriages if all girls had primary education. There would be 64% fewer births if they had secondary education. Continuing on this analysis, a study … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Asia, child marriage, Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning | Tagged child marriage, SSA, target 4.1 | 3 Comments

Education is indispensable in strengthening the bonds that hold communities and societies together.

Posted on 16 November 2015 by GEM Report

The GMR is based at UNESCO headquarters in Paris and, while none of the Report team was directly affected by the weekend’s tragic events, a black mark has been left on us all. The impact is felt even more as … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Citizenship, Conflict, Equality, Equity, fragile states, immigration, Marginalization, refugees, school violence, sdg, sdgs, Skills, Sustainable development | Tagged target 4.7 | 4 Comments

Education 2030 Framework for Action: let’s get started

Posted on 4 November 2015 by Aaron Benavot

by Aaron Benavot and Manos Antoninis The Education 2030 Framework for Action was adopted today in a high level meeting alongside the 38th UNESCO General Conference. What is this document and what does it mean for our work over the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Finance, integrated development, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Report, sdg, sdgs | Tagged development, education, education-2030, finance, primary education, SDGs, sustainable development, UNESCO | 11 Comments

Education cannot wait, and yet it always does

Posted on 23 October 2015 by GEM Report

For many years now there have been calls for greater attention to education in crisis situations from a multitude of advocacy organisations and influential spokespeople. Despite this noise, although there have been some indications of progress, there have been no … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Conflict, Developed countries, Developing countries, emergencies, Finance, fragile states, Literacy, Out-of-school children, refugees, syria | Tagged afghanistan, conflict, Finance, humanitarian aid, iraq, refugees, syria, Target 4.a | 4 Comments

Don’t be gender blind. Take a moment to understand gender gaps in education.

Posted on 13 October 2015 by Kate Redman

It may surprise many that, in global terms, girls make up just 52% of out of primary school age children. At the secondary level there are actually fewer girls out of school than boys. When averaging out the gender parity … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Out-of-school children, parity, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Quality of education, Secondary school | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender. equality | 5 Comments

Girls continue to draw the short straw.

Posted on 12 October 2015 by Aaron Benavot

Today we are celebrating International Day of the Girl Child and are launching the Gender Summary from the GMR 2015. It shows, yet again, the extent to which girls face the greatest challenges in accessing basic education. The theme of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning, parity, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, gender. equality | 2 Comments

The Role of the Philanthropic Sector in Achieving the Education SDG

Posted on 25 September 2015 by GEM Report

This blog is part of a series of last minute reflections before a new education goal is set in stone. It is written by Kim Kerr, Deputy Director, Education and Learning at The MasterCard Foundation The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) … Continue reading →