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Category Archives: Basic education
Lessons from Dakar
This blog introduces a new series that will take a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. As we reach the 500 day countdown until the end of 2015, this series creates a space for … Continue reading
Domestic revenues will need to be mobilised to realise the 2014 GPE pledges
The Global Partnership for Education brought together governments and donors at its Replenishment Conference in Brussels last week. While donors fell short of the $3.5 billion target, governments stepped up to the mark. These governments will now need to work … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Finance
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Aid to education has fallen by 10% since 2010
A new EFA Global Monitoring Report policy paper, Aid reductions threaten education goals shows that aid to education has been on a downward spiral since 2010, putting the achievement of existing and future global education goals at risk. With 250 … Continue reading
The challenges and rewards of measuring global learning after 2015
In the second of our guest blogs as part of a series on the five proposed outcome-oriented post-2015 global education targets, Ray Adams of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) examines the challenges involved in reaching agreement on how … Continue reading
Giving young children the best chance – and measuring their progress
In the first of our series of guest blogs on the five proposed outcome-oriented post-2015 global education targets, Abbie Raikes, programme specialist at UNESCO, looks at the challenges of measuring early childhood development and learning. We now know that early … Continue reading
We must shelve our hopes for aid to education from Australia
The news that Australia’s aid budget will be cut by 10% over the next two years is worrisome for education financing. Ausaid is now closed and development has been merged into its foreign affairs and trade ministries. Combined, these two … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Finance, Primary school, Secondary school
Tagged finance, humanitarian aid
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Global Action Week: When disability is a barrier to education
“Equal Right Equal Opportunity: Education and Disability” is the theme of this year’s Global Action Week. The campaign aims to raise awareness of how a disability can seriously harm a child’s chances of going to school and learning. As we … Continue reading
10 steps for solving the global learning crisis
Yesterday, at the Learning for All Symposium organised by the World Bank, global players came together to find some answers to two major questions: How can we solve the global learning crisis and how do we prepare young people for … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Donors, Learning, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education
Tagged basic education, developing countries, education, learning, literacy, Millennium Development Goals, out of school children, post-2015, quality, quality for all
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250 million children not learning – but has there been any progress?
By Chris Berry, Education Head of Profession at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) The 2013/4 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, to be launched in the United Kingdom on April 7, makes a crucial contribution to our understanding … Continue reading
Poverty holds back learning in Kenya
Margaret, a teacher in Nairobi, is the fifth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. She works in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, helping children find an escape route from poverty through their education. Margaret was born in … Continue reading
