Category Archives: Uncategorized

Global Citizenship Education after the COVID-19 crisis?

Posted on 3 July 2020 by GEM Report

By Marta Estellés, University of Cantabria, Spain and Gustavo E. Fischman, Arizona State University, USA During the COVID-19 crisis, educational responses have been mainly geared towards minimizing the problems derived from school closures and mantaining educational services. While it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizenship, Climate change, Sustainable development, Uncategorized | Tagged climate change, coronavirus, covid19, global citizenship, sustainable development | Leave a comment

Your Questions Answered – pose your questions live to the authors of the 2020 GEM Report

Posted on 29 June 2020 by GEM Report

Launched on 23 June, the 2020 GEM Report on inclusion and education draws on the latest available data, evidence, and commissioned research from leading experts around the world. The Report benefits from a 18-month production cycle and is authored by … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusion, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusive education | 22 Comments

Jean-Paul Gaultier, Hillary Clinton, Shakira, Pele, Yalitza Aparicio and others join in calling for more inclusive education

Posted on 26 June 2020 by GEM Report

High-profile influencers from around the world joined the GEM Report in calling for more inclusive education systems. The 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report showed that exclusion in education had deepened during the COVID-19 pandemic. For instance, about 40% of low and … Continue reading →

Posted in curriculum, Inclusion, Language, legal rights, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusive education | 3 Comments

Introducing a new online tool: Profiles Enhancing Reviews in Education (PEER)

Posted on 24 June 2020 by GEM Report

Yesterday, along with the launch of the 2020 GEM Report on inclusion and education, we also launched a new website, PEER, to support the monitoring of national education laws and policies. It provides systematic, comprehensive information on laws and policies … Continue reading →

Posted in Inclusion, monitoring, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, PEER | 2 Comments

Digital capacities and distance education in times of coronavirus. Insights from Latin America

Posted on 12 May 2020 by GEM Report

By Nicolas Buchbinder, GEM Report Fellow Due to the coronavirus, schools have closed their doors in almost the entirety of Latin America. This is a situation with no precedent in the region. Countries have implemented different policies to continue the … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, STEM, Teachers, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, digital divide, digital literacy skills, ICT, technology | 2 Comments

Flexible learning during Covid-19: how to ensure quality higher education at a distance

Posted on 7 May 2020 by GEM Report

By Michaela Martin and Uliana Furiv, respective lead and consultant working at the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning programme specialist on a project on flexible learning pathways. The Covid-19 outbreak closed universities and other tertiary education institutions in 175 … Continue reading →

Posted in emergencies, higher education, technology, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, higher education, technology, tertiary education | 4 Comments

Looking at school sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa on Hand Hygiene Day

Posted on 5 May 2020 by GEM Report

Hand hygiene is the one certain weapon we have against coronavirus. In high-income countries, as we wrote about this morning, multiple reports are emerging of teachers concerned that schools are going to re-open without sufficient hygiene management in place. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Health, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, Health, Hygiene, sdg4.a | 1 Comment

Back to school, back to normality? Dilemmas in high-income countries

Posted on 5 May 2020 by GEM Report

There seemed no doubt when schools closed earlier this year that closures were a necessary response to the pandemic. The question is whether that reasoning has sufficiently subsided for the opening of school doors to be again acceptable. If groups … Continue reading →

Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, emergencies, high-income, out of school | 2 Comments

How traditional gender narratives can be used to advocate for girls’ and women’s education

Posted on 30 April 2020 by GEM Report

By Emily LeRoux-Rutledge, Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of the West of England “Education is very important for girls, women and for everyone. Education is the thing that will develop our country, and without education, the country will never go … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Equality, Equity, Gender, Uncategorized | Tagged equity, Gender, gender. equality, girls' education, South Sudan | 2 Comments

TVET and skills development in the time of Covid-19

Posted on 28 April 2020 by GEM Report

By Paul Comyn, Senior Skills Specialist, ILO With less than 5 months since the first official reporting of a Coronavirus (COVID-19) case, we have almost arrived at a global paralysis of regular education and training provision. This unprecedented situation is … Continue reading →