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Category Archives: Post-2015 development framework
No Girl Left Behind – Education in Africa
By Claudia Costin, Senior Director for Education at the World Bank, Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Karen Mundy, Chief Technical Officer at the Global Partnership for Education. On International Women’s Day, let’s remember the challenges girls … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Basic education, Conflict, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Gender, Human rights, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Primary school, Quality of education, Sustainable development
Tagged Gender, SSA, target 4.1
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Speaking a minority language should not mean being disadvantaged
International Mother Language Day, observed since 1999 on 21 February, honours the world’s abundant cultural and linguistic diversity. The celebration draws attention to the significance of pluri-lingualism and the need for language preservation. For example, UNESCO’s Interactive Atlas of the World’s … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Language, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Post-2015 development framework, Rural areas, Teachers, Training
Tagged #Target 4.5, Mexico, New Zealand
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Improving the measurement of household wealth to better understand global inequalities in education
By Jeroen Smits, Associate Professor on Inequality and Development at the Economics Department of Radboud University in the Netherlands and Director of the Global Data Lab. Over the past few decades, household surveys have become an important source of information on … Continue reading
Posted in Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty
Tagged #Target 4.5, finance
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The limits of education’s impact on equality
By Herman van de Werfhorst and Yossi Shavit. Herman van de Werfhorst is a professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Inequality Studies. Yossi Shavit is the Weinberg Professor of Sociology of … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Post-2015 development framework, Sustainable development
Tagged #Target 4.5
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2014 – a year of reflection
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
“Literacy For Life” and literacy assessment after 2015
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
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Addressing the challenges of measuring inequality in education
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
Post 2015: Sustainable development goals and the right to education
November 20th marked 25 years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which had a major influence on the 1990 World Declaration on Education for All (EFA). Among all human rights treaties, … Continue reading
Our finance data tip for post-2015: We need to know who is financing what, where, and when.
In August this year, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commissioned an Independent Expert Advisory Group (IEAG) to come up with key recommendations necessary to bringing about a data revolution in sustainable development. Among the 9 key principles now being proposed are … Continue reading
Improving, not over-hauling learning assessments post-2015
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Independent Expert Advisory Group recently released its report on “Mobilising the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development”. Revolutionizing education data may indeed capture our imagination, but there are less complex and arguably more effective ways to measure … Continue reading
