Category Archives: Primary school

Africa’s 3 top education priorities for the next decade

Posted on 31 January 2013 by EFA Editor

By Birger Fredriksen, a senior advisor at the Results for Development Institute and former director for human development for Africa at the World Bank. How can countries seize the opportunities and minimize the risks posed by the rapid change that … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Basic education, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Employment, Equity, Marginalization, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Secondary school | 8 Comments

A goal for 2030: primary and lower secondary school completion

Posted on 28 January 2013 by EFA Editor

Cris Revaz, executive director of the Basic Education Coalition, lays out the coalition’s recommendations for a new set of global education goals, outlined in a new paper, Each Child Learning, Every Student a Graduate. Our recommendations are built around a … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Equality, Equity, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Secondary school | 4 Comments

Business leaders at the World Economic Forum must boost finance for education

Posted on 18 January 2013 by Pauline Rose

As political and business leaders gather in Davos for another year’s World Economic Forum, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report has released a new policy paper showing that contributions from corporations and private foundations combined total only $683 million … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Economic growth, Out-of-school children, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged aid, davos, donors, education, Education for All, philanthropy, private sector, world economic forum | 13 Comments

Join the consultation on Teaching and Learning for Development

Posted on 26 November 2012 by Kate Redman

A learning crisis is leaving one in three primary school-aged children not achieving basic skills, whether they are in school or not. This revelation makes the theme of the 2013 Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) on Teaching and … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Gender, Latin America, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, North America, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, Sustainable development, Teachers, Training | Tagged developing countries, education, equity, learning, Millennium Development Goals, out of school, post-2015, primary education, quality, teachers | Leave a comment

Lost opportunities: The impact of grade repetition and early school leaving

Posted on 22 November 2012 by EFA report

This guest post is by Albert Motivans, Head of Education Indicators and Data Analysis Section at Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS). There is an urgent need to face the issue of high numbers of children who are repeating grades and … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school | 2 Comments

Bangladesh faces a skills development challenge

Posted on 25 October 2012 by GEM Report

Afsan Chowdhury, senior communications adviser for the non-government organization BRAC, looks at what Bangladesh needs to do to bridge the skills deficit that is revealed in the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report. This article was first published in The Daily Star, … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Equity, Gender, Primary school, Quality of education, Skills, Uncategorized | Tagged bangladesh, basic education, BRAC, education, primary education, skills training | 4 Comments

Girls’ education in Pakistan: victim of conflict and commitment

Posted on 22 October 2012 by Pauline Rose

by Pauline Rose, Director of the Global Monitoring Report It is reassuring news to hear that Malala is showing signs of recovery after the senseless shooting in Pakistan a couple of weeks ago. I remember reading Malala’s blog on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Basic education, Equality, Gender, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

Put Education First – share our flyer

Posted on 26 September 2012 by EFA Editor

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched his Education First initiative today. To support the rationale for choosing access and learning as two of the three key aspects of the new Initiative, we have collected some key statistics below. These include a … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Health, HIV/AIDS, Literacy, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school, Skills | 1 Comment

The World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE) – a new visualization tool to measure marginalization

Posted on 25 September 2012 by Pauline Rose

To coincide with the launch of the UN Secretary-General’s Education First initiative, the Education for All Global Monitoring Report Team will launch a new interactive website tomorrow – the World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE). In an exclusive preview for … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Marginalization, Poverty, Primary school | 15 Comments

Early childhood care and education: Getting off to a good start

Posted on 20 September 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

The first Education for All (EFA) goal aims to expand and improve comprehensive early childhood care and education, especially for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children. As part of our countdown to the launch of our next report, we look … Continue reading →