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Education: how to keep the peace
Today, on the International Day of Peace, we should remember one key line taken from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: “There can be no sustainable development without peace, and no peace without sustainable development”. Stable peace, our latest Report … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, emergencies, peace, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdg, syria, Uncategorized, united nations, violence
Tagged education, learning, peace, SDGs, target 4.7
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There is no doubt. A #learninggeneration calls for a financial upheaval
The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity released their Report this weekend. It sounds the warning bell on the need for greater financing for education. Released just weeks after our latest GEM Report, it should help get donors and … Continue reading
Posted in Donors, Finance, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
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“Youth need to be the beneficiaries and the guardians of the future”
The GEM Report will be holding the first ever digital youth launch of the 2016 GEM Report today at 2pm UCT. All are welcome. Please tune in to watch and ask questions during the digital launch from anywhere in the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized, united nations, Youth
Tagged development, education, skills, sustainable development, Target 4.4, young people, youth
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Fighting Poverty and Hunger for Quality Education
By Salam Al-Nukta, youth advisor to the GEM Report The youth population is continuously increasing, and is estimated to reach 1.8 billion this year. Obviously, it is a large population of mass power. Yet, as we say goodbye to another … Continue reading
Posted in Arab States, Conflict, Learning, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, school violence, sdg, sdgs, syria, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged conflict, education, equality, learning, post-2015, quality, SDGs, youth day
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Planning for Language Use in Education: Best Practices and Practical Steps for Improving Learning
By Alison Pflepsen, a research education analyst at RTI International, Imagine a classroom in which a teacher is required to teach in a language her students do not speak or understand well. During the reading lesson, students struggle to master … Continue reading
Posted in curriculum, Equality, Language, Learning, sdg, sdgs, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged education, language, learning, SDGs, teaching
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How to include all in monitoring the global goal in education SDG4?
By Aaron Benavot, Director of the GEM Report It’s tough to cover this issue in a blog. It’s something we cover extensively in the next GEM Report due out on September 6th. But it’s also something I presented on today … Continue reading
Posted in Equality, Equity, Finance, Marginalization, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5
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Reflections: The First Global Education Monitoring Report’s Advisory Board Meeting
By Baela Raza Jamil- Vice Chair GEM Report For two full days I was honoured to Chair the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report’s First Advisory Board meeting (June 2-3 2016). Jeff Sachs our luminary Chairperson was unable to attend due … Continue reading
Posted in Donors, monitoring, Post-2015 development framework, Report, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged education, Education for All, GMR, post-2015, SDG, SDGs, UNESCO
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Some donors are shifting aid to secondary education
The recent policy paper by the GEM Report containing the data on 2014 aid spending shows that, for several years, aid to education has been stuck not only at a level far below what is needed but even below levels … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Donors, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged finance, target 4.1
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Reaching All Children with Education: Lebanon’s national education response strategy to the Syria crisis
By Lebanon’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education In Lebanon, the five years since the beginning of the Syria Crisis have had a significant impact on its people and its institutions. With an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees now hosted … Continue reading
Posted in Arab States, Basic education, emergencies, Equality, Equity, fragile states, Legislation, Marginalization, Primary school, Quality of education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Report, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, syria, Uncategorized
Tagged lebanon, refugees, syria, target 4.1
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Virtually Educated: The Case for and Conundrum of Online Higher Education for Refugees
by Martha K. Ferede, Consultant GEM Report, Lecturer in International and Comparative Higher Education, Sciences-Po In addition to increased provision of primary and secondary schooling, refugees also need pathways into accredited tertiary education programs. As was highlighted in the … Continue reading
