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One more week until the application deadline for the GEM Report Fellowship
The deadline for proposals to become the first GEM Report Fellows is next Friday, 28 September. The expected start to the fellowship is January 2019. The new Fellowship programme, supported by the Open Society Foundations, aims to strengthen the evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged gem fellowship, monitoring, SDG 4, SDGs
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Is global education data heading toward fragmentation?
A month ago, an article in Devex described the risk of fragmentation posed by the explosion of new international education financing mechanisms– especially as the pool of funding remains constant. Yet, the risk of fragmentation does not seem to apply … Continue reading
Posted in data, monitoring, Out-of-school children, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged data, monitoring, out of school, out of school children, SDG4
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Fighting gang violence in El Salvador by empowering young minds
By: IBREA Foundation “Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed,” wrote the poet Archibald MacLeish for the preamble of UNESCO’s constitution in 1945. Having … Continue reading
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Tagged school violence, Target 4.a, violence
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Free education for all in Sierra Leone? Can it happen?
In late August, Sierra Leone’s newly elected President Julius Madaa Bio, announced a five year initiative to roll out free pre-primary, primary and secondary education on 17 September. The new policy is intended to guarantee free school places for one … Continue reading
Posted in Developing countries, Finance, Inclussion, Uncategorized
Tagged financing, free education, right to education, Sierra Leone
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#EducationOnTheMove campaign – meet Richard
It’s back to school month in many countries around the world. Pencils, bags and reading lists are being compiled by some children, but not by all. Meet Richard, an asylum seeker from Chad. Aged 21 years, he left Chad after … Continue reading
Hungarian university suspends education programmes for refugees and asylum seekers
Two weeks ago the Central European University (CEU) announced it was being forced to suspend its education programmes for refugees and asylum seekers because of new tax legislation that came into effect on August 24. The law implies a 25% … Continue reading
100 million young people are still illiterate
This International Literacy Day there’s plenty to celebrate – the number of young people aged 15-24 with no literacy skills worldwide has fallen by 27% since 2000, a fact we hope to see reflected in plummeting adult literacy rates over … Continue reading
