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Category Archives: Quality of education
Was education progress faster after Dakar?
The freshly released GMR, “Education for All 2000-2015: achievements and challenges” shows that only a third of countries reached all of the measurable Education for All goals. Only half reached the most watched goal of universal primary education. While the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Gender, Learning, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Uncategorized
Tagged Africa, asia, dakar, development, education, Millennium Development Goals, post2015, pre-primary education, primary education, primary school, UNESCO
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Highlights from the launch events of the GMR 2015
On the occasion of the launch of the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015: Education for All 2000-2015: Achievements and Challenges, many key dignitaries assembled on three different continents to discuss the Report’s findings and the implications for education in the … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Aid, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Health, Human rights, Learning, Literacy, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Report, Rural areas, sdgs, Secondary school, Skills, Sustainable development, Teachers, Youth
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The sustainable development goals won’t be achieved without education
Over the course of the next few days, UN Member States will be meeting in New York for the next intergovernmental negotiations on the post-2015 development agenda. They will be discussing global indicators for each of the sustainable development goals … Continue reading
The world will not reach new education targets by 2030 unless financial efforts are stepped up
New estimates by UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) reveal that an annual US$22 billion external funding gap must be bridged if low and lower middle income countries are to achieve quality, universal pre-primary, primary and lower secondary … Continue reading
School-related gender-based violence prevents millions of children from reaching their academic potential
The policy paper, “School-related gender-based violence is preventing the achievement of quality education for all,” launched today at the Commission on the Status of Women in New York. School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a global phenomenon that impacts millions of … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, Gender, Health, Human rights, Quality of education, Teachers
Tagged SRGBV, target 4.1, Target 4.a
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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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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
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
Problem solving skills with global relevance
By Jenny Bradshaw and Francesco Avvisati, OECD The international community is intensively working on a set of goals and targets to be reached by 2030. Among them, the Education for All Steering Committee on Education Post-2015 has identified “knowledge and skills … Continue reading
Nigeria: Why pupils learning in English and mother tongue are not mutually exclusive
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
