Category Archives: Out-of-school children

2014 – a year of reflection

Posted on 31 December 2014 by GEM Report

2014 was a year spent reflecting on past achievements in education and their implications for international policy commitments in 2015 and beyond. Our blog remained a popular online hub and the year’s most frequently read posts reflect key topics of … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Finance, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Primary school, Quality of education, Skills, Teachers | 1 Comment

Peshawar and the war against education

Posted on 29 December 2014 by GEM Report

By Bushra Rahim Many children and youth in conflict zones are being injured, killed, kidnapped, recruited and traumatized. Armed conflict negatively impacts children’s access to school, and interrupts the studies of enrolled students. As we look forward to implementing a … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Finance, Human rights, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

Peshawar and the human right to education

Posted on 18 December 2014 by GEM Report

At least 132 children and 9 staff were killed this week following a Taliban attack on the Army Public School and Degree College in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The GMR team is dedicated to the notion that each and … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Out-of-school children, Refugees and displaced people | 2 Comments

We owe all our children the benefits of quality education

Posted on 7 October 2014 by GEM Report

By Mariam Khalique, a teacher from the Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan and previous teacher of Malala Yousafzai. There is a saying in our national language: a teacher is like an architect who builds the soul and character of … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Equality, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Teachers | 1 Comment

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

The Jomtien Conference in 1990 was a game changer for education

Posted on 22 August 2014 by GEM Report

This blog looks back at the start of the EFA movement, from Jomtien, to Dakar, to today. It is the first in a series of blogs taking a retrospective view of the Education for All agenda and its subsequent implementation. Svein … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education | Tagged Dakar retrospective blog series | 14 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 →

Posted in Developing countries, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Equity, Literacy, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Quality of education, Secondary school, Skills, Youth | Tagged education, employment, learning, skills, Target 4.4, unemployment, UNESCO, youth | 3 Comments

Women’s education helps avert child marriage

Posted on 21 July 2014 by GEM Report

This week, a Girl Summit is being held in London, aimed at rallying efforts to end female genital mutilation and child marriage within a generation. This blog looks at the vital role that education plays in helping reduce child marriages … Continue reading →

Posted in Developing countries, Equality, Gender, Out-of-school children, Poverty | 15 Comments

No progress in reducing out of school numbers, with some exceptions

Posted on 26 June 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. There has been no global progress in reducing the number of children who are denied their right … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Environment, Equality, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Quality of education | 3 Comments

The challenges and rewards of measuring global learning after 2015

Posted on 3 June 2014 by GEM Report

In the second of our guest blogs as part of a series on the five proposed outcome-oriented post-2015 global education targets, Ray Adams of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) examines the challenges involved in reaching agreement on how … Continue reading →