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Category Archives: Governance
Beyond Busan 2: Should imputed student costs and scholarships be counted as aid?
By Elise Legault, research officer, Education for All Global Monitoring Report team Aid analyses by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report tend to put greater emphasis on basic education than on the whole sector. One reason is that the … Continue reading
BRIEFLY: 7 million children out of school in the DRC
Around 7 million primary age children are still out of school in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, even though primary education officially became free in 2010, the IRIN news service reports, citing a study conducted by the DRC government with the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Basic education, Conflict, Governance, Out-of-school children
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G20 leaders need to speak out for education and skills
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report With the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All goals just four years away, some questions about the future of global development efforts are … Continue reading
Chileans march for equality in education
Students and parents marching in Santiago, Chile. (Photo: Elibertaria/Flickr. Creative Commons Licence: Attribution/Noncommercial/No Derivatives) Français | Español For months, Chile has seen almost daily protests by students frustrated at a system that fails to provide the poor with an equal … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Competition, Developed countries, Equality, Equity, Finance, Governance
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What’s in a name? Rebranding the EFA Fast Track Initiative
Français | Español By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report While world leaders were gathering at the United Nations General Assembly in New York last week, an event on the sidelines signalled a change that … Continue reading
Pakistan declares ‘education emergency’
Français | Español Kicking off a campaign aimed at making March “the month that Pakistan talks about only two things: education and cricket”, a government commission has painted a damning picture of the country’s education system, whose poor progress towards global … Continue reading
Education failures fan the flames in the Arab world
Français | Español | العربية By Kevin Watkins, director, Education for All Global Monitoring Report No one could have predicted that, in the space of a few months, the death by self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old Tunisian struggling to … Continue reading
On the margins in the wealthy West
By Karen Moore, policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Français | Español The word marginalization often brings to mind those in the world’s poorest countries. But on a trip to Canada last week I was reminded of one of … Continue reading
Youngest minds need the best care
By Anaïs Loizillon, researcher, Education for All Global Monitoring Report When world leaders met in New York last week to reaffirm their commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, the United Nations launched its new Global Strategy for … Continue reading
The problem with cash-on-delivery aid
By Paolo de Renzio, Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University Nancy Birdsall’s response on this blog to the issues raised about cash-on-delivery aid in the 2010 Education for All Global Monitoring Report reflect the amount of work that has gone … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Developing countries, Donors, Finance, Governance, Innovative financing
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