Category Archives: Quality of education

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

BRICS: A new force on the international education stage

Posted on 22 September 2014 by GEM Report

This blog by Elizabeth Fordham, Education Specialist, UNESCO, lays out the key findings of a new report looking at the changing balance of education power in the world as a result of the growing influence of the five major emerging … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Economic growth, Employment, Finance, Latin America, Quality of education, Skills, technology | 4 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

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

The new education targets still need fine-tuning

Posted on 18 July 2014 by GEM Report

The next few days are crucial for putting finishing touches on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) before they are handed over to the group who will work on the text at September’s United Nations General Assembly. Large substantial changes are likely to … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education, Skills, Sustainable development, Teachers | 1 Comment

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

TALIS: Showing how teachers acquire confidence and improve children’s learning.

Posted on 23 June 2014 by GEM Report

This week, a new round of TALIS survey results will be published by OECD. This blog looks at some of the findings from the last TALIS survey, which shows the sorts of practices which increase teachers’ feeling of confidence in … Continue reading →

Posted in Quality of education, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.c | 6 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 →

Posted in Basic education, Equality, Equity, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Quality of education, Secondary school | 8 Comments

Giving young children the best chance – and measuring their progress

Posted on 26 May 2014 by GEM Report

In the first of our series of guest blogs on the five proposed outcome-oriented post-2015 global education targets, Abbie Raikes, programme specialist at UNESCO, looks at the challenges of measuring early childhood development and learning. We now know that early … Continue reading →