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Category Archives: Basic education
Have we kept our 2013 education promises? Top 10 blogs say yes!
My blog at the beginning of 2013 set out three areas in which we hoped the education community would make progress towards post-2015 goals this year: devising an overarching education goal as part of a broader post-2015 framework; identifying approaches … Continue reading
Place your vote: do we need a new global education framework after 2015?
How can a renewed vision for education after 2015 and an overall global development framework complement each other? Do we need a global education framework to replace Education for All? Continuing confusion over these key questions was apparent when representatives … Continue reading
Donors must renew their commitment to supporting education goals after 2015
Aid has played a key role in supporting the Education for All goals. But now that support is in danger of being undermined as donors distribute aid through non-government channels, fail to coordinate their efforts sufficiently, or turn away from … Continue reading
PISA results show the power of better education policies
The latest findings of the triennial Programme for International Student Assessment are released today. Andreas Schleicher, who directs the OECD programme, looks at some of the recipes for success in countries that have performed well. International comparisons are never easy … Continue reading
Holding business to account for learning outcomes – what are the risks?
With quality of education becoming recognized as a vital component of post-2015 development goals, measuring how much children are learning is high on the global agenda. The Learning Metrics Task Force recently brought together education experts to discuss how to … Continue reading
Why girls’ education matters
With 31 million girls of primary school age out of school, and 17 million expected never to enter school at all, the situation for girls’ education desperately needs addressing. But why does it matter? This Friday is International Day of the Girl Child, where … Continue reading
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World Teachers’ Day shines spotlight on global teacher shortage
By Albert Motivans, head of education indicators and data analysis, UNESCO Institute of Statistics, and Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report This year’s World Teachers’ Day, on October 5, focuses on one of the most … Continue reading
The teacher-led push for quality education
By Fred van Leeuwen, general secretary of Education International, the global federation of teacher unions It is clear that the world will not meet the goal of universal primary education by the year 2015 as planned in the United Nation’s … Continue reading
Post 2015: The UN General Assembly has told us what, now we need to define how
The roadmap for the international development agenda after 2015 was approved yesterday at a special event at the UN General Assembly. The UN Secretary-General said that the post‐2015 framework “must be bold in ambition yet simple in design, supported by … Continue reading
Recommendations for the future of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Education First Initiative
In September 2012, the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, launched the Global Education First Initiative. To mark the one-year anniversary of the Initiative, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report has been asked to prepare an independent, light touch review. … Continue reading
