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Category Archives: Equity
Drawing links between economic status and education outcomes from ASER 2019
By M. Afzan Munir Economic well-being affects a child’s education achievement in multiple ways. Studies have shown that a family’s socioeconomic status positively contributes not only towards a child’s educational attainment, but towards their academic performance as well. ASER Pakistan … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Finance, Inclusion, Non-state actors, Uncategorized
Tagged equal education, equality, equity, Finance, Inclusion, Non-state actors, Pakistan
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Three ways to plan for equity during the coronavirus school closures
By Stefania Giannini, UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education and Suzanne Grant Lewis, UNESCO-IIEP Director From school closures and home confinement to travel bans, countries and municipalities are ramping up efforts to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. For … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Equity, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, equity, learning, out of school, UNESCO
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The bottom ten countries for girls’ education
The World Inequality Database in Education, WIDE, managed by the GEM Report and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, highlights the powerful influence of gender, combined with other factors such as ethnicity and location, over which people have little control but … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, parity, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls, girls' education, target 4.7
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Gender gap in primary school enrolment has halved over past 25 years
Sunday is International Women’s Day. The year 2020 is also the 25-year anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing in 1995), which culminated with the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a key global policy document on gender … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls' education, target 4.7
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Education Progress – the GEM Report’s new online interactive tool exploring progress made towards SDG 4
To mark International Education Day, the Global Education Monitoring Report has launched a new online interactive tool, Education Progress. Available in seven major languages, the site brings together data from various producers, notably the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, to explore … Continue reading
Posted in access, data, Equality, Equity, Finance, Learning, monitoring, Quality of education, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged access, equity, Finance, learning, monitoring, quality, SDG 4
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Internally Displaced Girls and Education in Yemen
By YoumnaFathi Al-Aswadi, author of a background paper for the Arab States 2019 GEM Report on migration, displacement and education The protracted conflict in Yemen since March 2015 has resulted in significant human suffering. More than 3.65 million people have … Continue reading
Mapping girls’ right to an education
By Rolla Moumne, UNESCO Education Sector UNESCO’s Her Education Rights Atlas (HER Atlas) is designed to measure the degree of protection of girls’ and women’s education rights in national legal frameworks. Her Atlas was launched at the G7 France/UNESCO international … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender, gender parity, gender. equality, girls, girls' education
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