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Category Archives: Learning
Gender Equality in Post-Genocide Rwanda
This blog looks at the positive example Rwanda sets in promoting gender equality through its textbooks. It is part of a series of blogs on this site published to encourage debates around a new GEM Report Policy Paper: Between the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Developing countries, Equality, Gender, Learning, textbooks, Uncategorized
Tagged Between the Lines Blog Series, gender. equality, learning, rwanda, textbooks
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We must stamp out stereotypical teaching tools
Gender bias in textbooks is one of the best camouflaged and hardest to budge rocks in the road to gender equality in education. Through stereotypical and unbalanced depictions of men and women in stories and illustrations, textbooks undermine values and … Continue reading
National learning assessments: there’s more to gain than valuable data
By Carmela Maria Salzano, International Development Consultant While the drive to benchmark global progress in improving education outcomes, and to increase the evidence-base for education policy making, has imbued the dialogue around monitoring SDG 4.1 with a strongly technical hue, … Continue reading
How to reach a consensus on reporting learning globally
Carrying out national and cross-national learning assessments involves an enormous commitment of time, effort and resources. As such, they are most cost effective when they serve multiple purposes, which might also include providing an input to global monitoring of learning … Continue reading
Comparing learning across diverse systems: a global challenge
Until recently education systems focused almost entirely on measuring access to and completion of school instead of what students take away from their schooling experience. Since 2000 there has been a pronounced shift to measuring learning outcomes, with more and … Continue reading
Target 4.5 – What is at stake for monitoring progress on equity in education?
4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations While there is progress toward monitoring … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Language, Learning, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, equality, Gender, language, monitoring sdg 4 blog series
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SDG4 is a universal agenda – and that includes high income countries
“Can OECD’s data guide the world towards better education systems?” asks a blog promoting yesterday’s launch of the 2016 edition of the OECD flagship publication, Education at a Glance. The Introduction of the 2016 Education at a Glance is one … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, data, Developed countries, Finance, integrated development, Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged data, education, learning, monitoring, OECD, SDG4, SDGs, UNESCO, United Nations
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In my tribe, we go to a different type of school
Blog by Mundiya Kapanga, who attended the launch of the 2016 GEM Report in London. I know that Westerners are busy and that you are always looking at your watch so I will be quick. I will only take five … Continue reading
Why have countries committed to development targets they might never reach?
It seems a strange decision for any country, let alone all, to sign up to a global commitment they know they will never reach. End Hunger? Eradicate poverty? Are these lofty goals really possible? In the next 15 years? Exactly … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Africa, Arab States, Basic education, Climate change, Developed countries, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equity, integrated development, Learning, Millennium Development Goals, monitoring, Post-2015 development framework, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged climate change, education, Environment, learning, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, UN, UNESCO, United Nations
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It’s a little bit early to celebrate International Literacy Day
We have now officially moved from talking about whether someone is ‘literate’ or not, to discussing how proficient their literacy skills are. This is a significant step forward, which we should celebrate today – International Literacy Day. But we don’t yet … Continue reading
