Category Archives: Sustainable development

How to include all in monitoring the global goal in education SDG4?

Posted on 16 June 2016 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

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

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

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

Good news: Gender equality due to make its way into the global education indicators

Posted on 2 March 2016 by GEM Report

This blog celebrates the expectation that there will be a new indicator proposed to monitor target 4.7 on sustainable development and global citizenship from the one currently listed in the reports by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group. Moreover, it is expected that … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Equity, Gender, Learning, Literacy, Marginalization, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged #Target 4.5, gender. equality | 3 Comments

When the challenge is teaching teachers English

Posted on 26 February 2016 by GEM Report

Sarah Wiles is a communications specialist for Voluntary Services Overseas in Papua New Guinea, where she has been living for the past three years. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the most linguistically diverse country in the world with over 850 … Continue reading →

Posted in Language, Learning, Literacy, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Teachers, teaching, technology, Training, Uncategorized | Tagged Papua New Guinea, target 4.1, Target 4.a, target 4.c | 3 Comments

The GMR is now the GEM report: Global Education Monitoring Report

Posted on 5 January 2016 by GEM Report

It’s a new year, and we’re introducing our new name! As from today, we are formally becoming the GEM Report: the Global Education Monitoring Report. It is now officially ‘post-2015’ and a new set of international goals and targets are in place. … Continue reading →

Posted in Governance, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development, Uncategorized, united nations | Tagged branding, development, education, monitoring, review, UN, United Nations | 4 Comments

Why universal secondary education can help fight climate change

Posted on 10 December 2015 by GEM Report

By Raya Muttarak, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW and WU), and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. Not only have climate scientists agreed that humans are contributing to climate change, but recent … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizenship, Climate change, Disaster preparedness, Environment, Post-2015 development framework, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, Sustainable development | Tagged target 4.1, Target 4.3, target 4.7 | 6 Comments

Education: A powerful response to climate change

Posted on 2 December 2015 by GEM Report

By Colin Bangay, the senior education adviser for the UK government’s Department for International Development in India; the views expressed do not necessarily reflect the UK government’s official policies. With a new World Bank report warning climate change could push more … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Environment, Poverty, Rural areas, sdg, sdgs, Sustainable development | Tagged target 4.7 | 3 Comments

Education is indispensable in strengthening the bonds that hold communities and societies together.

Posted on 16 November 2015 by GEM Report

The GMR is based at UNESCO headquarters in Paris and, while none of the Report team was directly affected by the weekend’s tragic events, a black mark has been left on us all. The impact is felt even more as … Continue reading →