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Category Archives: Gender
Pakistan’s elections highlight education challenges
By Nicole Comforto, EFA Global Monitoring Report The candidates in Pakistan’s election last week frequently cited quality education as one of their top priorities and committed to increase government spending on education, for good reason. Pakistan has the world’s second-highest … Continue reading
We need to act urgently on inequality to get every child into school by 2015
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report There are only 1,000 days to go until the deadline for the Education for All goals, but there are still 61 million primary school age children out of … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Primary school, Rural areas
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Post-2015: If we don’t tackle educational inequality, we’ll fail the fairness test
By Will Paxton, head of education policy and advocacy for Save the Children UK and chair of the Global Campaign for Education UK’s Policy Group, and Anthony Davis, policy adviser for Plan UK As debates about the post-2015 development framework … Continue reading
On International Women’s Day, let’s make sure education reaches the poorest young women
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report What kind of policy reduces or banishes inequality? International Women’s Day on March 8 is not only a chance to celebrate greater equality for women and highlight inequalities … Continue reading
Posted in Equity, Gender, Learning, Literacy, Rural areas, Sexual violence, Skills, Uncategorized
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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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The bottom ten countries for female education
As we approach ‘Malala Day’ on 10 November, the EFA Global Monitoring Report reveals that Pakistan scores in the bottom ten of new country rankings for education of poor females. As we stand together on ‘Malala Day’, it is vital … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Gender, Out-of-school children
Tagged female education, Gender, Malala, Pakistan
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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
Girls’ education in Pakistan: victim of conflict and commitment
by Pauline Rose, Director of the Global Monitoring Report It is reassuring news to hear that Malala is showing signs of recovery after the senseless shooting in Pakistan a couple of weeks ago. I remember reading Malala’s blog on the … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Basic education, Equality, Gender, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Uncategorized
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Skills for young women: Development that lasts
The 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report “Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work” is now available from our website. Travelling through rural areas in countries like Ethiopia, as I did last year, you frequently meet young women who … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Gender, Rural areas, Skills
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