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Category Archives: Basic education
Chileans march for equality in education
Students and parents marching in Santiago, Chile. (Photo: Elibertaria/Flickr. Creative Commons Licence: Attribution/Noncommercial/No Derivatives) Français | Español For months, Chile has seen almost daily protests by students frustrated at a system that fails to provide the poor with an equal … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Competition, Developed countries, Equality, Equity, Finance, Governance
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What’s in a name? Rebranding the EFA Fast Track Initiative
Français | Español By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report While world leaders were gathering at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, an event on the sidelines signalled a change that … Continue reading
How do we gauge global progress on skills?
Français | Español One of the challenges when setting targets like the Education for All goals (which the international community aims to reach by 2015) is knowing when you’ve actually reached them. It’s a particularly tough call with EFA goal 3, … Continue reading
Education in Somalia needs help urgently, agencies say
A group of 14 agencies and non-government organizations led by UNICEF and Save the Children has exposed the devastating effect of conflict, drought and famine on education in Somalia. Urgent action and funding is needed to prevent the situation worsening … Continue reading
Education needs to be protected by law
Français | Español Human Rights Watch has supplied further momentum to the growing movement to protect education during conflicts, by pointing out the gap between global and national legal protections. Governments should explicitly outlaw attacks on schools and curtail their … Continue reading
Targeting schools in the world’s newest state
Français | Español To mark the launch in Juba, South Sudan, of a new GMR policy paper on South Sudan’s education challenges, we publish a special opinion piece by UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova. Download the policy paper at http://www.efareport.unesco.org. On 9 … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Primary school
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A week of global action for girls’ and women’s education
Français | Español The Global Monitoring Report team is joining forces with UNESCO’s network of field offices to mark this year’s Education for All Global Action Week (May 2-8), which focuses on girls’ and women’s education. In 2000, governments pledged … Continue reading
Whether attacks are ‘indiscriminate’ or ‘deliberate’, education needs protection
Français | Español By Pauline Rose, senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report A high school in Gaza. (Photo Eman Mohammed/©UNESCO) A flurry of recent news items have referred to what many describe as Justice Richard Goldstone’s “retraction” … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Human rights, Out-of-school children
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When aid is driven by the news cycle
School children in Florida Valle, Colombia. Although Colombia has the world’s second-largest population of internally displaced people, they seldom make the news. (Photo: ©UNESCO/Ministerio de Educación, Colombia) Français | Español At the EFA Global Monitoring Report we welcomed the release … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Conflict, Refugees and displaced people
Tagged finance, humanitarian aid
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Hard lessons in the world’s largest refugee complex
Français | Español Somali refugees’ struggle for education in the Dadaab camps in northeastern Kenya, which we focused on in a post earlier this month, comes under the spotlight in an article from IRIN that builds on the findings of … Continue reading
