Category Archives: Basic education
Morocco aims to reach 100% enrolment in pre-primary education in ten years’ time
Launched last week in Skhirat, Morocco, on the national day for pre-primary education, the Minister of Education, Said Amzazi, described a new national programme that aims to have 67% enrolment in early childhood education by 2021 and every single child … Continue reading
New GEM Report says ‘Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault’
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
Posted in accountability, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Inclusion, monitoring, privatisation, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, Testing, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged accountability, education, governance, private schools, regulations, school choice, target 4.c, teachers, Testing
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Learning to realize education’s promise – a look at the 2018 WDR
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
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Partnerships with non-state providers need to be approached with caution
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
The poorest young women have spent less than a year in school in the bottom ten countries
It’s International Women’s Day this week. As people in different cities rally for gender equality, not enough changes are being made to help the poorest girls pick themselves up from the bottom of the education ladder in many parts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Equality, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, parity, Uncategorized
Tagged equality, female education, Gender, Pakistan, SDGs, somalia, Sudan, United Nations
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With the “Rise of Children,” So Too Must Textbooks Reflect Children’s Rights
This blog looks at the way that textbooks cover children’s rights. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between the Lines, which looks at the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, curriculum, Human rights, Teachers, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, target 4.7
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Out of date textbooks put sustainable development at risk.
Today, we’ve launched a new study into secondary school textbooks around the world, continuing our focus on the content of education, which we began in the 2016 GEM Report with a focus on curricula. Our focus on textbooks comes from … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, curriculum, Developed countries, Developing countries, Environment, Equity, Gender, Human rights, immigration, integrated development, Latin America, Literacy, parity, Teachers, teaching, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged target 4.7
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