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Category Archives: Arab States
Currents and counter-currents at the World Education Forum
By Aaron Benavot and Manos Antoninis The 2015 World Education Forum (WEF) took place last week at the Incheon Free Economic Zone, Republic of Korea. Set among impressive glass skyscrapers built on reclaimed land, the choice of venue was symbolic … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school
Tagged education, equality, equity, global partnership for education, korea, post-2015, SDG, SDGs, UN, UNESCO, world education forum
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Warm words, weak outcomes: Are we about to fail adults a second time?
By Alan Tuckett, President of the International Council for Adult Education and Professor of Education, University of Wolverhampton The World Education Forum in Incheon is now behind us, and the Addis Ababa event on financing the Sustainable Development Goals ahead. … Continue reading
Report cards for Education for All: 2000-2015
Which Education for All goal needs a rethink? Which calls for us to try harder? Read and share the Report cards for each of the global education goals set in Dakar taken from the GMR 2015: Education for all 2000-2015: Achievements … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Democracy, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Report, Sustainable development
Tagged adult illiteracy, Africa, aid, basic education, developing countries, education, Education for All, equality, equity, finance, Gender, Millennium Development Goals, post-2015, pre-primary education, primary education, quality, secondary education, skills, teachers, UNESCO, United Nations
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The GMR – and how it has contributed to EFA
In 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal 164 countries pledged to achieve six education goals by 2015. Participants committed to vastly improve education opportunities for children, youth and adults. Governments and international partners pledged that no country … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Child soldiers, Developed countries, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Governance, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school
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Syrian refugees make the best of temporary schools
Mohammed, a teacher from Syria who lives in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, is the fourth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. His daily struggle to help Syrian refugee children underlines the need to support teachers in difficult situations – … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Arab States, Basic education, Conflict, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Governance, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Refugees and displaced people, Teachers
Tagged #Target 4.5, #TeacherTuesday Blog Series, conflict, development, education, Education for All, finance, governance, humanitarian aid, learning, poverty, primary education, refugees
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Share your views on the forthcoming 2015 EFA Global Monitoring Report
The 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR) will review how much the EFA movement has contributed to ensuring that all children, young people and adults have benefited from the right to an education that meets their basic … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Governance, Innovative financing, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, North America, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Secondary school, Skills, Teachers, technology, Youth
Tagged basic education, boys, developing countries, development, education, Education for All, Gender, girls, inequality, inequity, learning, literacy, MDG, post-2015, poverty, teaching
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Children need to be taught in their mother language
In many countries, children are taught in languages they do not speak at home. As we show in the 2013/4 EFA Global Monitoring Report, that can be a potent source of disadvantage. Children need a chance to learn in their … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Language, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Teachers
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Let’s clarify the definition of aid to education so that it benefits the poorest
What is aid? Most people would agree with the dictionary that says aid is “material help given by one country to another” – and would expect aid to go to those most in need. But almost a fifth of what … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Equality, Equity, Finance, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework
Tagged aid, basic education, developing countries, donor, donors, education, Education for All, finance, financing, Global Monitoring Report, governance, post-2015, primary education
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Teaching and Learning: Achieving quality for all
The 11th Education for All Global Monitoring Report, Teaching and Learning: Achieving quality for all, reveals that 40% of children are not learning the basics in reading and mathematics, over half of whom have spent four years in school. This … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Secondary school, Teachers, Training, Youth
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Syria conflict takes a heavy toll on education
The conflict in Syria is causing severe damage to the education system, according to a new report by UNICEF on the country’s two-year crisis. Thousands of children are being kept out of school by the violence. Some have already missed … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Arab States, Conflict, Out-of-school children
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