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Category Archives: Finance
Out-of-school numbers on the rise as aid to education falls short of 2010 levels
By Aaron Benavot, Director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Basic education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Out-of-school children
Tagged finance, target 4.1
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Reaching the target of 0.7% of GNI to aid and prioritizing education would fill half of education’s finance gap
On June 25 and 26, the European Council, consisting of Heads of State of European Union members met to discuss issues relating to migration, security and defence. However, as the European Union is coming out of the financial crisis and … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Economic growth, Equity, Finance
Tagged finance
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What would you put first? A new suit, or your nation’s education?
News has reported this morning that the new National Assembly in Nigeria is to receive $43 million in a clothing allowance, meaning that each of the legislators is receiving over $91,000. According to the latest costing estimates by the EFA … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Equality, Finance, Governance, Legislation, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Quality of education, Teachers
Tagged finance, nigeria
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Why media reports about learning assessment data make me cringe
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. With a new set of post-2015 education goals and targets on the horizon, the international community is looking to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) to help collect global data … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Finance, Learning, Legislation, Poverty, Quality of education, Teachers
Tagged target 4.1
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12 years “free” or “publicly funded” education? A good outcome.
This blog explains how one word – “free” –was one of the reasons it took so long for the adopted declaration from Incheon to appear online. It celebrates the official commitment in the Incheon Declaration to 12 years of free, … Continue reading
Report cards for Education for All: 2000-2015
Which Education for All goal needs a rethink? Which calls for us to try harder? Read and share the Report cards for each of the global education goals set in Dakar taken from the GMR 2015: Education for all 2000-2015: Achievements … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Conflict, Democracy, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Report, Sustainable development
Tagged adult illiteracy, Africa, aid, basic education, developing countries, education, Education for All, equality, equity, finance, Gender, Millennium Development Goals, post-2015, pre-primary education, primary education, quality, secondary education, skills, teachers, UNESCO, United Nations
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The GMR – and how it has contributed to EFA
In 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal 164 countries pledged to achieve six education goals by 2015. Participants committed to vastly improve education opportunities for children, youth and adults. Governments and international partners pledged that no country … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Child soldiers, Developed countries, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Equality, Equity, Finance, Gender, Governance, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school
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We must not set our sights too low for financing the SDGs
The recent draft of the outcome document for the Addis Ababa Financing for Development Conference said that, by 2025, public spending must reach US$300 per person or 10% of national income to provide an essential basket of public services, ranging … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Finance, mdgs, Post-2015 development framework, sdgs
Tagged finance
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The sustainable development goals won’t be achieved without education
Over the course of the next few days, UN Member States will be meeting in New York for the next intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. They will be discussing global indicators for each of the sustainable development goals … Continue reading
The world will not reach new education targets by 2030 unless financial efforts are stepped up
New estimates by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reveal that an annual US$22 billion external funding gap must be bridged if low and lower middle income countries are to achieve quality, universal pre-primary, primary and lower secondary … Continue reading
