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Category Archives: Learning
Let’s celebrate education’s power to spread tolerance
On the eve of International Day for Tolerance, celebrated on November 16, we highlight evidence for education’s unique ability to boost tolerance and reduce discrimination. One of the fundamental roles that education plays is to increase tolerance. Tolerance, in turn, … Continue reading
School meals boost education, communities and economies
To mark World Food Day last week, Carmen Burbano of the United Nations World Food Programme looks at new evidence of the huge benefits of feeding children at school. Education has huge benefits for nutrition, as the EFA Global Monitoring … Continue reading
Valuing teachers is about more than their salaries
By Sunny Varkey, founder and trustee of the Varkey GEMS Foundation, is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for education partnerships I am immensely proud that my parents were teachers. I recently asked my mother what she believed they had achieved by … Continue reading
Posted in Employment, Learning, Quality of education, Skills, Teachers, Training
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The teacher-led push for quality education
By Fred van Leeuwen, general secretary of Education International, the global federation of teacher unions It is clear that the world will not meet the goal of universal primary education by the year 2015 as planned in the United Nation’s … Continue reading
New partnerships are needed to improve learning worldwide
What do children and young people need to learn? And how can we measure what they have learned? For the last 18 months, the Learning Metrics Task Force has put these questions to experts and agencies worldwide. Tomorrow it presents … Continue reading
Posted in Basic education, Finance, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Quality of education, Skills, Teachers, Testing, Training
Tagged education, Education for All, equity, learning, learning for all, literacy, MDG, post-2015, poverty
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UN 2013 MDG Report: despite major progress, greater efforts are needed
By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The UN’s 2013 Millennium Development Goal report highlights the gains made so far in achieving the MDGs, but also describes the major challenges that remain. As the report … Continue reading
Is it too much to ask for free quality education for all?
By Antonia Wulff, coordinator at Education International Education is an inalienable human right – but across the world this right is being undermined by the impacts of inequality, a lack of political commitment and inadequate investment in education. We need … Continue reading
BRIEFLY: Children with disabilities should have an opportunity to learn
This year’s State of the World’s Children report by UNICEF focuses on the many challenges that children with disabilities face in accessing their rights to school and other public services, and proposed solutions to ensure that students with disabilities can … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, Learning, Marginalization, Primary school, Uncategorized
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BRIEFLY: Malnutrition prevents children from learning
A report released this week by Save the Children UK shows how much malnutrition harms children’s chances of learning. In a study conducted by Young Lives in four countries, malnourished children scored 7% lower in mathematics tests, were 19% less … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Learning, Uncategorized
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Ending education’s ‘hidden exclusion’
A new report from Save the Children, Ending the Hidden Exclusion: Learning and equity in education post-2015, offers a detailed assessment of the challenges facing global education. The report’s key argument is outlined here by four Save the Children education … Continue reading
