Category Archives: Literacy

“Literacy For Life” and literacy assessment after 2015

Posted on 10 December 2014 by GEM Report

By David Post, Senior Policy Analyst for the EFA Global Monitoring Report. On 23 October 2014 the United Nation’s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (the “Third Committee”) adopted a new resolution, “Literacy for life: shaping future agendas”. The Resolution, highlights … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Language, Learning, Literacy, Post-2015 development framework | Tagged target 4.6 | 4 Comments

Addressing the challenges of measuring inequality in education

Posted on 3 December 2014 by Aaron Benavot

This blog introduces a new series that will look at the framing and measurement of inequalities in post-2015 education targets. The series aims to elaborate an equity perspective in the future monitoring of education by examining issues related to disability, … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Health, Literacy, Marginalization, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Quality of education, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | 12 Comments

Nigeria: Why pupils learning in English and mother tongue are not mutually exclusive

Posted on 22 October 2014 by GEM Report

This blog by Kieran Cooke from the Universal Learning Solutions, explains how a synthetic phonics approach can be taken to literacy education that can mean governments don’t have to choose between either instruction in English, or in their local language; … Continue reading →

Posted in Early childhood care and education, Ethnicity, Language, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Primary school, Quality of education | 24 Comments

Pakistan: Children in primary schools should be taught in their mother tongue

Posted on 16 October 2014 by GEM Report

By Bushra Rahim, PhD student. “If we start speaking other languages and forget our own, we would not be we, we would be clones of an alien people; we would be aliens to ourselves” (UNESCO, The Use of Vernacular Languages … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Early childhood care and education, Language, Learning, Literacy, Primary school, Teachers | Tagged culture, development, education, KP, language, learning, Malala, mother-tongue, Pakistan, post-2015, pre-primary education, primary education, teaching | 13 Comments

Malawi: Why it’s important children learn to read in their mother-tongue

Posted on 14 October 2014 by GEM Report

By Helen Abadzi, Radhika Iyengar, Alia Karim and Florie Chagwira – education specialists from the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, reading levels of students are far below grade level, and Malawi is no exception. … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Early childhood care and education, Learning, Literacy, Quality of education, Teachers, Training | 13 Comments

Wanted urgently: adequately trained teachers so all children can go to school by 2030

Posted on 6 October 2014 by Aaron Benavot

By Aaron Benavot, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report and Albert Motivans, head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Literacy, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Rural areas, Teachers | Tagged Africa, development, education, learning, post-2015, quality, skills, target 4.c, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching | 3 Comments

New: Advocacy Toolkit for Teachers

Posted on 5 October 2014 by Kate Redman

Today is World Teachers Day. It is a day for teachers to speak their minds and describe the challenges and joys of their daily experiences in the classroom. It is also a day for policy makers to listen carefully to … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Literacy, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Sustainable development, Teachers | Tagged advocacy, education, learning, lobbying, politics, quality, skills, target 4.c, teacher, teacher unions, teachers, union | 3 Comments

Photostory: The power of education

Posted on 19 September 2014 by GEM Report

Sustainable development begins with an education as demonstrated by the following people from around the world. Download our booklet, released yesterday to coincide with the UN General Assembly, to show how education is a catalyst for lasting development. Click on … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Asia, Basic education, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Gender, Health, Human rights, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Nutrition, Post-secondary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Teachers, Youth | 3 Comments

Improving literacy for sustainable development

Posted on 8 September 2014 by GEM Report

Today is International Literacy Day. The theme for this year is Literacy and Sustainable Development. The day will be “an opportunity to remember a simple truth: literacy not only changes lives, it saves them,” says the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Basic education, Employment, Literacy | Tagged target 4.6 | 4 Comments

Youth is more than the theme of the day; it’s the theme of the decade

Posted on 12 August 2014 by GEM Report

On International Youth Day, this blog looks at the continued importance of keeping the spotlight on better skills development for young people. In 2012, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report analysed the youth skills gap and reported that it … Continue reading →