Category Archives: sdgs

Reflections as a new education era dawns

Posted on 28 August 2015 by Aaron Benavot

This blog marks the start of a series in the run up to the UN Sustainable Development Summit to be held on 25-27 September.  We have some 25 days until the new goal and targets for education from now until … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Millennium Development Goals, sdg, sdgs, united nations | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

The Impossible, by Malala Yousafzai

Posted on 7 July 2015 by GEM Report

The EFA GMR recently updated it’s costing analysis for the price of education targets from 2015-2030. The updated costing paper shows that there is an annual finance gap of $39 billion to provide pre-primary through to upper secondary education. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Adult education, Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Child soldiers, Conflict, Developing countries, Donors, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Finance, Gender, Latin America, Learning, Legislation, Literacy, Marginalization, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Rural areas, sdgs, Secondary school, Teachers | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Oslo: Investing in teachers is investing in learning

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Manos Antoninis

  The Oslo Summit on Education for Development, which starts on Monday, is part of the global relay race to bring education back to the top of the development agenda by the end of 2015. It is taking the baton … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Arab States, Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Equality, Equity, Language, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Quality of education, sdgs, Secondary school, Sustainable development | Tagged , | 7 Comments

As more children have enrolled in schools in India, learning levels have declined

Posted on 4 June 2015 by GEM Report

Since 2009-10, when India made eight years of education a fundamental right, the number of 6-14 year olds going to school has grown by over a million. Analysing data from Andhra Pradesh, Young Lives India country Director Renu Singh shows that … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Equity, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers | Tagged , | 9 Comments

12 years “free” or “publicly funded” education? A good outcome.

Posted on 27 May 2015 by GEM Report

This blog explains how one word – “free” –was one of the reasons it took so long for the adopted declaration from Incheon to appear online. It celebrates the official commitment in the Incheon Declaration to 12 years of free, … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Finance, Human rights, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education, sdgs, Sustainable development | Tagged , | 1 Comment

The Global [Education] Monitoring Report has a new mandate for the next fifteen years

Posted on 22 May 2015 by Aaron Benavot

The mandate of our report, known since Dakar as the EFA Global Monitoring Report (EFA GMR), has been formally prolonged. This mandate and our new name, the Global Education Monitoring Report, has been cemented in the Incheon Declaration adopted at … Continue reading →

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Civil society priorities at the World Education Forum

Posted on 15 May 2015 by GEM Report

By David Archer, Head of Programmes, ActionAid and Board member of Global Campaign for Education. This is the first in a series of blogs leading up to and reacting to the World Education Forum taking place in Incheon Korea 19-22 … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Citizenship, Democracy, mdgs, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, sdgs | 6 Comments

New proposed indicators to monitor the post-2015 education framework

Posted on 13 May 2015 by GEM Report

By Albert Motivans, Head of Education Statistics, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Manos Antoninis, Senior Policy Analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report. The post-2015 sustainable development agenda, including the education goal, has received praise for its ambitious and universal … Continue reading →

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Highlights from the launch events of the GMR 2015

Posted on 10 April 2015 by GEM Report

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 →

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We must not set our sights too low for financing the SDGs

Posted on 31 March 2015 by Asma Zubairi

The recent draft of the outcome document for the Addis Ababa Financing for Development Conference said that, by 2025, public spending must reach US$300 per person or 10% of national income to provide an essential basket of public services, ranging … Continue reading →

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