Category Archives: Governance

Where is French aid to education going? To France, mostly

Posted on 2 April 2012 by Elise Legault

By Elise Legault, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Foreign aid is supposed to go to foreign countries. But there are many grey areas in terms of what can be counted as aid, and who can be classified … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Developing countries, Donors, Finance, Governance, Out-of-school children | Leave a comment

Without skills, no lasting spring for Arab youth

Posted on 21 March 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

Arab countries must provide the right skills for their large youth population if the Arab Spring is to have lasting effects, according to the 2010/2011 Arab Knowledge Report, a collaboration between the United Nations Development Programme and the Mohammed bin … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Basic education, Economic growth, Employment, Governance, Literacy, Secondary school, Skills, Training, Youth | Tagged Target 4.4 | 1 Comment

The struggle to learn skills in the city

Posted on 28 February 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

UNICEF’s flagship annual report, launched today, focuses on the lives of marginalized children in urban areas. The State of the World’s Children 2012 finds that children in urban environments are often denied their right to education, leaving many without the … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Gender, Governance, Literacy, Marginalization, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Skills, Training, Urbanization, Youth | 5 Comments

Who is responsible for developing youth skills?

Posted on 23 February 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

What role should the private sector play in developing the skills of young people? That’s one of the questions likely to come up at two international events on the theme of our upcoming 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Governance, Marginalization, Skills, Training, Youth | Tagged Target 4.4 | 3 Comments

World Youth Report puts focus on skills

Posted on 10 February 2012 by EFA Editor

As youth unemployment figures continue to rise in many parts of the world, the need for young people to have the skills that employers want is drawing more and more attention – not least from the young themselves. Their voices … Continue reading →

Posted in Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Governance, Skills, Training, Youth | Tagged Target 4.4 | 3 Comments

Can the ‘German model’ bridge the skills gap elsewhere?

Posted on 3 February 2012 by Léna Krichewsky

By Léna Krichewsky, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report What do all those experts and politicians mean when they point to the “German model” as a kind of magic recipe to solve the problem of youth unemployment by … Continue reading →

Posted in Developed countries, Economic growth, Employment, Governance, Post-secondary education, Skills, Training | 5 Comments

Youth jobs crisis pushes EU to address ‘skills mismatch’

Posted on 31 January 2012 by Andrew Johnston

Hard on the heels of Davos, where the “skills gap” was the subject of several sessions, the European summit on Monday showed that high unemployment is concentrating EU leaders’ minds on improving training for young people – the focus of … Continue reading →

Posted in Developed countries, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Governance, Marginalization, Skills, Training, Uncategorized | Tagged Target 4.4 | 4 Comments

BRIEFLY: Gordon Brown calls for new global education fund

Posted on 27 January 2012 by EFA Editor

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, a co-convenor of the High Level Panel on Education, released a report this week calling for the establishment of an independent global fund for education, to raise the $16 billion needed each year to … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Basic education, Donors, Equality, Finance, Governance, Innovative financing, Out-of-school children | Tagged aid, basic education, donors, education, Education for All, equality, finance, governance, innovative finance | 11 Comments

‘The future we want’ post-2015: Sustainable development goals

Posted on 26 January 2012 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report In his speech to the General Assembly this week, the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, presented his action agenda for the next five years. His speech highlighted many … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Climate change, Democracy, Developing countries, Economic growth, Employment, Governance, Human rights, Millennium Development Goals, Poverty, Reproductive health, Sustainable development | Tagged Ban Ki-moon, climate change, democracy, economic growth, education, Education for All, employment, human rights, Millennium Development Goals, poverty, sustainable development, United Nations | 1 Comment

At Davos, the ‘skills gap’ is on the guest list

Posted on 24 January 2012 by Andrew Johnston

As the world’s movers and shakers head to Davos, Switzerland, this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the International Labour Organization has issued a gloomy report on employment – just in time to focus minds at … Continue reading →