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Category Archives: Equity
Africa’s 3 top education priorities for the next decade
By Birger Fredriksen, a senior advisor at the Results for Development Institute and former director for human development for Africa at the World Bank. How can countries seize the opportunities and minimize the risks posed by the rapid change that … Continue reading
A goal for 2030: primary and lower secondary school completion
Cris Revaz, executive director of the Basic Education Coalition, lays out the coalition’s recommendations for a new set of global education goals, outlined in a new paper, Each Child Learning, Every Student a Graduate. Our recommendations are built around a … Continue reading
An open letter to the new CEO of the Global Partnership for Education
An open letter to Alice Albright, new Chief Executive of the Global Partnership for Education, from Pauline Rose, Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Dear Ms Albright, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Equality, Equity, Innovative financing, Post-2015 development framework
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Education after 2015: The Commonwealth perspective
Commonwealth ministers of education recently outlined their vision for education’s role in the new global goals for development, emphasizing education’s catalytic power and stressing the need for equity and quality in addition to access. By Jonathan Penson, education adviser at … Continue reading
Ending the learning crisis: education and equity after 2015
Today Save the Children is publishing its proposals for the post-2015 global development framework. Giving every child a chance to learn – particularly the poorest – is a central part of this framework, as four Save the Children education experts … Continue reading
In 2013, let’s keep our education promises – and get ready to make some more
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report With less than three years until the deadline for the Education for All goals, I sincerely hope 2013 is a year of urgent action to accelerate progress – … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Equity
Tagged developing countries, Education for All, primary education
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Join the consultation on Teaching and Learning for Development
A learning crisis is leaving one in three primary school-aged children not achieving basic skills, whether they are in school or not. This revelation makes the theme of the 2013 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on Teaching and … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Gender, Latin America, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, North America, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Sustainable development, Teachers, Training
Tagged developing countries, education, equity, learning, Millennium Development Goals, out of school, post-2015, primary education, quality, teachers
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Born Equal: Inequality, education and post-2015
A guest post from Alex Cobham, Head of Research at Save the Children UK. Children suffer twice the inequality of income as the general population, and this has grown by a third since the 1990s. As the UN High Level … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Equity, Gender
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Bangladesh faces a skills development challenge
Afsan Chowdhury, senior communications adviser for the non-government organization BRAC, looks at what Bangladesh needs to do to bridge the skills deficit that is revealed in the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report. This article was first published in The Daily Star, … Continue reading
How can we promote fairness in access to education beyond 2015?
As the UN Secretary General launches his Education First initiative and as the new World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) goes live, Will Paxton from Save the Children – drawing on new research from Rwanda – asks what the implications … Continue reading
