Category Archives: Equity

Measuring gender equality in education: A challenge for the Sustainable Development agenda

Posted on 27 March 2015 by GEM Report

By Elaine Unterhalter, Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University College London, and Joan Dejaeghere Associate Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change, University of Minnesota. As we look to the post-2015 … Continue reading →

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No Girl Left Behind – Education in Africa

Posted on 6 March 2015 by GEM Report

By Claudia Costin, Senior Director for Education at the World Bank, Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Karen Mundy, Chief Technical Officer at the Global Partnership for Education. On International Women’s Day, let’s remember the challenges girls … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Gender, Human rights, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Primary school, Quality of education, Sustainable development | Tagged , , | 18 Comments

Improving the measurement of household wealth to better understand global inequalities in education

Posted on 27 January 2015 by GEM Report

By Jeroen Smits, Associate Professor on Inequality and Development at the Economics Department of Radboud University in the Netherlands and Director of the Global Data Lab. Over the past few decades, household surveys have become an important source of information on … Continue reading →

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The limits of education’s impact on equality

Posted on 22 January 2015 by GEM Report

By Herman van de Werfhorst and Yossi Shavit. Herman van de Werfhorst is a professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies. Yossi Shavit is the Weinberg Professor of Sociology of … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Post-2015 development framework, Sustainable development | Tagged | 11 Comments

Who is Minding the Gap for Post Primary Transitions for Post 2015?

Posted on 9 January 2015 by GEM Report

By Baela Raza Jamil, who currently serves as the Director of Programs Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi and the Institute for Professional Learning as well as Coordinator of the South Asian Forum for Education Development.  The 5th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014 … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equity, Primary school, Rural areas, Secondary school, Uncategorized | Tagged | 2 Comments

2014 – a year of reflection

Posted on 31 December 2014 by GEM Report

2014 was a year spent reflecting on past achievements in education and their implications for international policy commitments in 2015 and beyond. Our blog remained a popular online hub and the year’s most frequently read posts reflect key topics of … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Finance, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Primary school, Quality of education, Skills, Teachers | 1 Comment

Monitoring progress in education among individuals with disabilities

Posted on 4 December 2014 by GEM Report

By Daniel Mont, an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Leonard Cheshire Disability and Inclusive Development Centre at University College London.  During his ten years at the World Bank he co-chaired the analytical working group of the UN Washington Group … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment, Equality, Equity, Health, Learning, Marginalization, Testing | Tagged , | 8 Comments

Addressing the challenges of measuring inequality in education

Posted on 3 December 2014 by Aaron Benavot

This blog introduces a new series that will look at the framing and measurement of inequalities in post-2015 education targets. The series aims to elaborate an equity perspective in the future monitoring of education by examining issues related to disability, … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Health, Literacy, Marginalization, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Quality of education, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | 12 Comments

We owe all our children the benefits of quality education

Posted on 7 October 2014 by GEM Report

By Mariam Khalique, a teacher from the Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan and previous teacher of  Malala Yousafzai. There is a saying in our national language: a teacher is like an architect who builds the soul and character of … Continue reading →

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The Jomtien Conference in 1990 was a game changer for education

Posted on 22 August 2014 by GEM Report

This blog looks back at the start of the EFA movement, from Jomtien, to Dakar, to today. It is the first in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation.  Svein … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education | Tagged | 14 Comments