Category Archives: sdgs

Reflections: The First Global Education Monitoring Report’s Advisory Board Meeting

Posted on 10 June 2016 by GEM Report

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 | 5 Comments

Should school principals be held accountable for the quality of education? An Ethiopian perspective.

Posted on 1 June 2016 by GEM Report

The 2017 GEM Report will explore the successes and challenges to effective accountability in Education. While the online consultation is now officially closed, we welcome comments until the yearlong research period of the Report is over. This includes the following … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Africa, Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Governance, Learning, monitoring, pedagogy, Quality of education, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, teaching, Testing | Tagged accountability, ethiopia, target 4.1 | 2 Comments

Some donors are shifting aid to secondary education

Posted on 30 May 2016 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

Reaching All Children with Education: Lebanon’s national education response strategy to the Syria crisis

Posted on 25 May 2016 by GEM Report

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 | 3 Comments

Virtually Educated: The Case for and Conundrum of Online Higher Education for Refugees

Posted on 24 May 2016 by GEM Report

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 →

Posted in Adult education, Arab States, Conflict, Developed countries, Developing countries, fragile states, refugees, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, syria, teaching, Uncategorized, united nations, violence, Youth | Tagged #Target 4.5, refugees, Target 4.3 | 12 Comments

Humanitarian aid: education’s double disadvantage

Posted on 23 May 2016 by GEM Report

The GEM Report’s recent paper on trends of aid to education shows how education remains an under-prioritised and underfunded sector of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid makes up only a small share of the external financing that countries receive for education. … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Conflict, Finance, fragile states, Primary school, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations, violence | Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, finance, humanitarian aid, Target 4.a | 1 Comment

No more excuses. Provide education to all forcibly displaced people

Posted on 20 May 2016 by GEM Report

By the GEM Report and the UNHCR Education Section Days before the World Humanitarian Summit, we have jointly released a new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’, with new data showing that only 50% of refugee children are in primary school … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Arab States, Child soldiers, Conflict, data, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equality, fragile states, Human rights, immigration, Legislation, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Quality of education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdgs, syria, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged #Target 4.5, refugees | 6 Comments

Getting down to business: The Global Alliance to Monitor Learning

Posted on 12 May 2016 by GEM Report

By Claudia Costin, Senior Director for Education at the World Bank, and Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics We have just launched the ‘go to’ initiative on the monitoring of learning worldwide: The Global Alliance to Monitor … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, data, Developed countries, Developing countries, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged target 4.1 | 8 Comments

We’ve been told: your advice for the GEM 2017 on accountability in education

Posted on 2 May 2016 by GEM Report

The consultation for the 2017 GEM Report on Accountability in Education is soon to close. This blog contains some of the suggestions made by commentators for the GEM Report to consider as it embarks upon the research. Full comments can … Continue reading →

Posted in accountability, Post-2015 development framework, Report, sdg, sdgs, Teachers, teaching, Uncategorized | Tagged accountability | Leave a comment

Do international rankings of universities help make them more accountable?

Posted on 13 April 2016 by GEM Report

The GEM Report 2017 will be looking at how we can improve accountability in education. Hoping to engage people in the types of issues our Report will address, we are running a series of twitter polls to accompany our online … Continue reading →