Category Archives: Equality

Having a disability shouldn’t affect your access to education

Posted on 1 December 2017 by GEM Report

Everyone has the right to education but for some people accessing this education is far harder than it should be. Marking December 3, which is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we are focusing on some of the barriers … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Human rights, Inclusion, legal rights, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, 2020 GEM Report, disability, equality, equity, Inclusion, inclusive education, inequality | Leave a comment

New GEM Report says ‘Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault’

Posted on 24 October 2017 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

Who is responsible for ensuring gender equality in education?

Posted on 14 September 2017 by GEM Report

Problems require solutions, which requires knowing who is responsible for fixing them, and having clear steps to address the issue. This is the meaning of accountability. A longstanding issue like gender inequality, therefore, is one for which accountability is clearly … Continue reading →

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‘Cracking the code’ to end gender disparities in STEM

Posted on 1 September 2017 by GEM Report

By Justine Sass, UNESCO Girls and women are significantly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions worldwide, a divide rooted in girls’ earliest days of socialization and schooling and one that a groundbreaking UNESCO report aims to address. … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, ICT, STEM, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged Gender, gender. equality, ICT, STEM, technology | 1 Comment

Liberia’s children deserve the best education

Posted on 24 July 2017 by GEM Report

By: Dr. Saaim W. Naame, Dean of Education at the University of Liberia. Over the last twenty years, the people of Africa’s first modern republic, Liberia, have been through two civil wars and a major virus epidemic. The wars caused … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Africa, Equality, Equity, Primary school, private schools, private sector, privatisation, Uncategorized | Tagged Bridge Academy, liberia, primary education, private schools, privatisation, PSLs, quality education, SDG4, SDGs | 2 Comments

The poorest young women have spent less than a year in school in the bottom ten countries

Posted on 6 March 2017 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

Hidden figures: showing the importance of women in science

Posted on 10 February 2017 by GEM Report

Tomorrow is the second year of celebrating the new UN Day on Girls and Women in Science. This subject seems to be picking up steam. It has even hit the big time – featuring in a blockbuster Hollywood film, Hidden Figures, about … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Gender, ICT, STEM, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, Gender, maths, science, STEM | 3 Comments

Gender Equality in Post-Genocide Rwanda

Posted on 19 January 2017 by GEM Report

This blog looks at the positive example Rwanda sets in promoting gender equality through its textbooks. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between the … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Equality, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, gender. equality, learning, rwanda, textbooks | 7 Comments

We must stamp out stereotypical teaching tools

Posted on 16 January 2017 by GEM Report

Gender bias in textbooks is one of the best camouflaged and hardest to budge rocks in the road to gender equality in education. Through stereotypical and unbalanced depictions of men and women in stories and illustrations, textbooks undermine values and … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized | Tagged books, equality, Gender, teaching, textbooks | 1 Comment

Viet Nam: Using Textbooks and Curricula for Gender Equality

Posted on 19 December 2016 by GEM Report

This blog looks at how recent textbook reforms in Viet Nam have worked to improve gender equality. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between … Continue reading →