Category Archives: Skills

What’s top of the 2012 global education news?

Posted on 19 December 2012 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report The tragic shooting in Pakistan of Malala in the name of girls’ education, the rebuilding of education in South Sudan one year after independence and in Haiti two … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developing countries, Skills, Youth | Tagged developing countries, education, youthskillswork | 4 Comments

Life skills taught in school vital to reduce risk of HIV and AIDS

Posted on 29 November 2012 by Pauline Rose

Only 7% of school children in E & S Africa have desired level of knowledge on HIV and AIDS On World AIDS Day, new research conducted for the Global Monitoring Report ‘Youth and Skills: Putting education to work’ shows the importance … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Developing countries, Health, HIV/AIDS, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Secondary school, Skills | Tagged education, HIV and AIDS, life skills, skills, skills training, Target 4.4 | 6 Comments

Bangladesh faces a skills development challenge

Posted on 25 October 2012 by GEM Report

Afsan Chowdhury, senior communications adviser for the non-government organization BRAC, looks at what Bangladesh needs to do to bridge the skills deficit that is revealed in the 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report. This article was first published in The Daily Star, … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Basic education, Developing countries, Equity, Gender, Primary school, Quality of education, Skills, Uncategorized | Tagged bangladesh, basic education, BRAC, education, primary education, skills training | 4 Comments

For Ghana’s young, skills are the test of progress

Posted on 23 October 2012 by Kwame Akyeampong

By Kwame Akyeampong, Senior policy analyst, Education for All Global Monitoring Report Ghana, which aims to become a middle income country by 2020, continues to receive praise from the international media for its impressive progress. As a Ghanaian who analyses … Continue reading →

Posted in Marginalization, Skills, Youth | 4 Comments

Skills, jobs and growth: Let’s tell the world about Korea’s success story

Posted on 18 October 2012 by Pauline Rose

By Pauline Rose, Director of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report. Originally published in the Korea Herald. As the economic crisis continues to squeeze budgets worldwide, the severe lack of youth skills is more damaging than ever. The world’s … Continue reading →

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Investing in the future of our youth

Posted on 17 October 2012 by EFA Editor

Guest blog by Dr. Qian Tang, UNESCO’s Assistant Director-General for Education, originally published in China Daily. Twenty years ago there were 183 million illiterate adults in China; 183 million people missing out on the chance to best support themselves and … Continue reading →

Posted in Asia, Skills | 4 Comments

Skills for young women: Development that lasts

Posted on 16 October 2012 by Pauline Rose

The 2012 Education for All Global Monitoring Report “Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work” is now available from our website. Travelling through rural areas in countries like Ethiopia, as I did last year, you frequently meet young women who … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Gender, Rural areas, Skills | 5 Comments

Speaking from experience: youth voices on youth skills

Posted on 8 October 2012 by EFA Editor

To mark the 10thanniversary of the EFA Global Monitoring Report, we have looked back at all our previous reports in this blog series. Today, a week before we launch the 2012 Report “Youth and Skills: Putting Education to Work“, Sam Mountford from … Continue reading →

Posted in Skills | Tagged GMR, GMR 10th anniversary, Target 4.4 | 2 Comments

Put Education First – share our flyer

Posted on 26 September 2012 by EFA Editor

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched his Education First initiative today. To support the rationale for choosing access and learning as two of the three key aspects of the new Initiative, we have collected some key statistics below. These include a … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, Health, HIV/AIDS, Literacy, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Secondary school, Skills | 1 Comment

Education empowers people and promotes democracy

Posted on 23 September 2012 by Hans Botnen Eide

The importance of good governance to overcome inequalities in education was the focus of the 2009 EFA Global Monitoring Report. As part of our 10th anniversary countdown to the launch of the 2012 report on October 16, we are looking … Continue reading →