Category Archives: Teachers

2014 – a year of reflection

Posted on 31 December 2014 by GEM Report

2014 was a year spent reflecting on past achievements in education and their implications for international policy commitments in 2015 and beyond. Our blog remained a popular online hub and the year’s most frequently read posts reflect key topics of … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Donors, Economic growth, Equality, Equity, Finance, Literacy, Millennium Development Goals, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Poverty, Primary school, Quality of education, Skills, Teachers | 1 Comment

Pakistan: Children in primary schools should be taught in their mother tongue

Posted on 16 October 2014 by GEM Report

By Bushra Rahim, PhD student. “If we start speaking other languages and forget our own, we would not be we, we would be clones of an alien people; we would be aliens to ourselves” (UNESCO, The Use of Vernacular Languages … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Early childhood care and education, Language, Learning, Literacy, Primary school, Teachers | Tagged culture, development, education, KP, language, learning, Malala, mother-tongue, Pakistan, post-2015, pre-primary education, primary education, teaching | 13 Comments

Malawi: Why it’s important children learn to read in their mother-tongue

Posted on 14 October 2014 by GEM Report

By Helen Abadzi, Radhika Iyengar, Alia Karim and Florie Chagwira – education specialists from the Center on Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, reading levels of students are far below grade level, and Malawi is no exception. … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Basic education, Early childhood care and education, Learning, Literacy, Quality of education, Teachers, Training | 13 Comments

We owe all our children the benefits of quality education

Posted on 7 October 2014 by GEM Report

By Mariam Khalique, a teacher from the Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan and previous teacher of Malala Yousafzai. There is a saying in our national language: a teacher is like an architect who builds the soul and character of … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Conflict, Equality, Equity, Gender, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Teachers | 1 Comment

Wanted urgently: adequately trained teachers so all children can go to school by 2030

Posted on 6 October 2014 by Aaron Benavot

By Aaron Benavot, director of the EFA Global Monitoring Report and Albert Motivans, head of Education Statistics at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. A new paper jointly released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Literacy, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Rural areas, Teachers | Tagged Africa, development, education, learning, post-2015, quality, skills, target 4.c, teach, teacher, teachers, teaching | 3 Comments

New: Advocacy Toolkit for Teachers

Posted on 5 October 2014 by Kate Redman

Today is World Teachers Day. It is a day for teachers to speak their minds and describe the challenges and joys of their daily experiences in the classroom. It is also a day for policy makers to listen carefully to … Continue reading →

Posted in Basic education, Developed countries, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Literacy, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Post-secondary education, Pre-primary education, Primary school, Sustainable development, Teachers | Tagged advocacy, education, learning, lobbying, politics, quality, skills, target 4.c, teacher, teacher unions, teachers, union | 3 Comments

Photostory: The power of education

Posted on 19 September 2014 by GEM Report

Sustainable development begins with an education as demonstrated by the following people from around the world. Download our booklet, released yesterday to coincide with the UN General Assembly, to show how education is a catalyst for lasting development. Click on … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Asia, Basic education, Economic growth, Employment, Equality, Gender, Health, Human rights, Latin America, Learning, Literacy, Nutrition, Post-secondary education, Primary school, Quality of education, Teachers, Youth | 3 Comments

Achieving equity through finance: helping Indigenous populations in Brazil

Posted on 8 August 2014 by GEM Report

On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, this blog outlines successful policies in Latin America that have helped redistribute funds to help bring about equity in education, and benefit its indigenous populations. To achieve Education for All, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Equality, Ethnicity, Language, Latin America, Marginalization, Rural areas, Teachers | 1 Comment

The new education targets still need fine-tuning

Posted on 18 July 2014 by GEM Report

The next few days are crucial for putting finishing touches on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) before they are handed over to the group who will work on the text at September’s United Nations General Assembly. Large substantial changes are likely to … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Donors, Finance, Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 development framework, Quality of education, Skills, Sustainable development, Teachers | 1 Comment

Learning is not just for students

Posted on 2 July 2014 by GEM Report

By Kristen Weatherby, Senior Analyst at OECD The latest results from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) were released last week in countries around the globe. TALIS 2013 surveyed 107,000 lower secondary teachers in 34 participating countries to represent … Continue reading →

Posted in Teachers, Training | 1 Comment