Category Archives: Basic education

Oslo: Investing in teachers is investing in learning

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Manos Antoninis

  The Oslo Summit on Education for Development, which starts on Monday, is part of the global relay race to bring education back to the top of the development agenda by the end of 2015. It is taking the baton … Continue reading →

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Reaching the target of 0.7% of GNI to aid and prioritizing education would fill half of education’s finance gap

Posted on 27 June 2015 by Asma Zubairi

On June 25 and 26, the European Council, consisting of Heads of State of European Union members met to discuss issues relating to migration, security and defence. However, as the European Union is coming out of the financial crisis and … Continue reading →

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Conflict exacerbates already existing inequalities

Posted on 25 June 2015 by GEM Report

The EFA GMR’s last report showed that only a third of countries had reached global education goals set in 2000, and identified conflict as one of the major barriers to achieving better results. A new paper out yesterday in time … Continue reading →

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World Refugee Day and the lost generation

Posted on 20 June 2015 by GEM Report

One in 122 people worldwide is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum, says UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War, released last Thursday. And given that 58% of all refugees are children, World Refugee Day is a … Continue reading →

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As more children have enrolled in schools in India, learning levels have declined

Posted on 4 June 2015 by GEM Report

Since 2009-10, when India made eight years of education a fundamental right, the number of 6-14 year olds going to school has grown by over a million. Analysing data from Andhra Pradesh, Young Lives India country Director Renu Singh shows that … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equity, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers | Tagged , | 9 Comments

World Education Forum declares: ‘no target met unless met for all’

Posted on 1 June 2015 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, previous director of the GMR, and now Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. First published on 26 May 2015 for The Conversation UK. Looking back at the World Education Forum, which drew more than 1,500 people … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Sustainable development | Tagged | 3 Comments

Key education targets will not be reached by 2030 if recent trends continue

Posted on 1 June 2015 by Manos Antoninis

By Manos Antoninis and Marcos Delprato, Senior Policy Analyst and Research Office respectively, for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report. A new technical note prepared by the EFA Global Monitoring Report for the World Education Forum about the feasibility … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Sustainable development | Tagged | 3 Comments

Hope for Nigeria

Posted on 29 May 2015 by Kate Redman

On 1 April the election took place in Nigeria for a new President. Today, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari is sworn in as President. This blog looks at the reasons for hope behind the priorities of the new government for education. Countering expectations, no … Continue reading →

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Currents and counter-currents at the World Education Forum

Posted on 29 May 2015 by Aaron Benavot

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 →

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12 years “free” or “publicly funded” education? A good outcome.

Posted on 27 May 2015 by GEM Report

This blog explains how one word – “free” –was one of the reasons it took so long for the adopted declaration from Incheon to appear online. It celebrates the official commitment in the Incheon Declaration to 12 years of free, … Continue reading →

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